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GUEST ESSAY: Cisco-Splunk merger will boost Snowflake – here’s how security teams can benefit.

The Last Watchdog

Splunk’s inability to migrate to a modern cloud-native architecture makes it difficult to take advantage of these cost-saving benefits or implement advanced data science use cases critical for threat detection. The Cisco acquisition shall exacerbate these challenges and speed up the adoption of security data lakes.

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Report Finds Over 50% of Security Practitioners Are Unhappy With Current SIEM Vendor

CyberSecurity Insiders

Analysts find dealing with data collected from numerous hosts within an enterprise to be a daunting task. The time necessary to acquire security data, the rigidity around how the data can be analyzed, and the speed at which data can be processed make these tools less useful than they should be.

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MSSP Focus: Three ways your SIEM (even NG-SIEM) is hurting your ability to grow

CyberSecurity Insiders

Instead, many are looking to do a better job of identifying and mitigating threats before they can harm their business. SIEMs , in their inherent, built-in bias to complete data collection, means that a security team looking to identify threats will wade through oceans of irrelevant log data in the hopes of uncovering a danger.

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More SRE Lessons for SOC: Simplicity Helps Security

Anton on Security

Now, this is really juicy: “Essential complexity is the complexity inherent in a given situation that cannot be removed from a problem definition, whereas accidental complexity is more fluid and can be resolved with engineering effort.” In detection content? Metrics and associated data collection? Escalation processes?

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The Greatest Asset Becomes the Biggest Risk

CyberSecurity Insiders

It also empowers business owners to easily see, understand and act on contextual intelligence using scoring frameworks proven to stop insider threats, prevent data loss, maximize software investments and protect the workforce, wherever they may be.

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Defining Good: A Strategic Approach to API Risk Reduction

Security Boulevard

Unlike typical API security solutions that focus primarily on detection and mitigation of threats, Salt's platform introduces the first-ever engine dedicated to API posture governance. We are thrilled to start off 2024 with these exciting new capabilities and look forward to sharing them with the world. Register here.

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More SRE Lessons for SOC: Simplicity Helps Security

Security Boulevard

Now, this is really juicy: “Essential complexity is the complexity inherent in a given situation that cannot be removed from a problem definition, whereas accidental complexity is more fluid and can be resolved with engineering effort.” In detection content? Metrics and associated data collection? Escalation processes?