Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q4 2021
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2 min readDec 20, 2021
Sometimes great old blog posts are hard to find (especially on Medium) , so I decided to do a periodic list blog with my favorite posts of the past quarter or so.
Here is the next one. The posts below are ranked by lifetime views. This covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast too (subscribe).
Top 5 most popular posts of all times:
- “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM”
- “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?”
- “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People — Skills, Not Tiers”
- “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound””
- “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020”
Top 5 posts with the most Medium fans:
- “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM”
- “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound”
- “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?”
- “Why Is Threat Detection Hard?”
- “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next”
Top 5 Cloud Security Podcast by Google episodes:
- Episode 1“Confidentially Speaking”
- Episode 2 “Data Security in the Cloud”
- Episode 17 “Modern Threat Detection at Google”
- Episode 8 “Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021”
- Episode 27 “The Mysteries of Detection Engineering: Revealed!”
Random fun new posts:
- “SOC Technology Failures — Do They Matter?”
- “Kill SOC Toil, Do SOC Eng”
- “Anton and The Great XDR Debate, Part 1”
Fun posts by topic.
Security operations / detection & response:
- “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM”
- “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?”
- “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People — Skills, Not Tiers””
- “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound”
- “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020”
- “Why is Threat Detection Hard?”
- “Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil” [GCP Blog]
- “Stop Trying to Take Humans Out of SOC … Except … Wait… Wait… Wait…”
- “2021 Threat Intelligence Use Cases”
- “Top 10 SIEM Log Sources in Real Life?”
- “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next”
- “Today, You Really Want a SaaS SIEM!”
Data security:
- “New whitepaper: Designing and deploying a data security strategy with Google Cloud” [GCP Blog]
- “The cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less” [GCP Blog]
- “The cloud trust paradox: 3 scenarios where keeping encryption keys off the cloud may be necessary” [GCP Blog]
- “Data Security and Threat Models”
- “Lost in translation: encryption, key management, and real security” [GCP Blog]
- “Musings on Modern Data Security”
- “Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data discovery” [GCP Blog]
- “Transform data to secure it: Use Cloud DLP” [GCP Blog]
- “Not just compliance: reimagining DLP for today’s cloud-centric world” [GCP Blog]
Cloud security:
- “Not the Final Answer on NDR in the Cloud …”
- “Move to Cloud: A Chance to Finally Transform Security?”
- “Cloud Migration Security Woes”
- “Is Your Fate In the Cloud?”
Enjoy!
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