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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. In 1971, researcher Bob Thomas and his team at BBN Technologies created a virus that was later coined the “Creeper” worm.

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Kingston Technology Wins Coveted Global InfoSec Awards During RSA Conference 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., We carry a full range of portable encrypted solutions for customers of all levels when data needs to go outside the firewall,” said Richard Kanadjian, encrypted USB business manager, Kingston. “We FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.–( About Kingston Digital, Inc.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

The Last Watchdog

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Here are a few takeaways: Very Big Data. And now, Big Data is about to become Very Big Data. Coming of age.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Masters reported that very little slowed him down as he discovered ways to make unauthenticated requests for private account data of Peloton cyclers including names, birth dates, gender, location, weight and workout stats. Salt Security is taking a big data and automation approach to this monumental challenge, Isbitski told me.

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Everything about XDR is around Correlations, not Hype

CyberSecurity Insiders

It is not enough to say that you have a big data platform that you can dump things into and search; you need actionable detections that lead to meaningful correlations. Data Normalization – To get full visibility, the first thing you need to consider is the data itself.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Today there exists a widening shortage of security analysts talented and battle tested enough to make sense of the rising tide of data logs inundating their SIEM systems.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

Enterprises have spent billions of dollars on next-gen technology solutions, yet security analysts are getting increasingly frustrated. Different flavors of cloud architectures, sprawling IoT systems and the coming wide deployment of 5G networks add up to not just Big Data, but Very Big Data. Talk more soon.

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