Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q2 2022
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3 min readMay 25, 2022
Great blog posts are sometimes 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 (these ended up being the same as last quarter):
- “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”
- “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: Forces shaping modern security operations””
Top 5 posts with the most Medium fans (these are also the same as last quarter):
- “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 47 “Megatrends, Macro-changes, Microservices, Oh My! Changes in 2022 and Beyond in Cloud Security”
- Episode 8 “Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021”
- Episode 27 “The Mysteries of Detection Engineering: Revealed!”
Random fun new posts:
- “How to Think about Threat Detection in the Cloud”
- “SOC is Not Dead Yet It May Be Reborn As Security Operations Center of Excellence”
- “Fastest Two Minutes in SecOps: Top SOC Challenges [Video]” [new Chronicle blog]
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?”
- “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next”
- “Chronicle Road to Detection: YARA-L Language — Part 3 of 3”
- “Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil” [GCP Blog]
- “Stop Trying to Take Humans Out of SOC … Except … Wait… Wait… Wait…”
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:
- “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next”
- “Not the Final Answer on NDR in the Cloud …”
- “Who Does What In Cloud Threat Detection?”
- “Cloud Migration Security Woes”
- “Move to Cloud: A Chance to Finally Transform Security?”
- “Is Your Fate In the Cloud?”
Enjoy!
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