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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions.

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Left of SIEM? Right of SIEM? Get It Right!

Security Boulevard

Mostly data collection. Data collection sounds conceptually simple, but operationally it is still very difficult for many organizations. land of data collection. Just as early SIM/SEM innovators struggled with collection [and then UEBAs did ], innovators in 2022 struggle with it as well. LEFT OF SIEM.

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Security pros struggle to balance monitoring of remote workforces with privacy expectations

SC Magazine

Fortunately, there are options for businesses looking to strike a balance between network security and employee privacy. One potential solution, said Daly, is pseudoanonymizing the data collected from workers’ computers.

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MY TAKE: SMBs can do much more to repel ransomware, dilute disinformation campaigns

The Last Watchdog

Election tampering The wide exposure to election tampering stems from having too many voter registration databases coming on line that were never security hardened, and by now have been plundered several times over by malicious, automated botnets.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Insight’s portfolio goes beyond cybersecurity, serving IT verticals in data, fintech, healthcare, and logistics. Insight Partners.

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H&R Block seeks out open-source expertise to stock up on SOC talent

SC Magazine

Stanwyck’s SOC projects have leveraged such open-source solutions as the Zeek network analysis framework (formerly known as Bro), the TheHive incident response platform and ELK, a stack comprised of the Elasticsearch search engine, the Logstash data collection engine, and Kibana data visualization dashboard software.

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Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Collections repository. ThreatConnect’s platform enables automated data collection from all sources and presents it to users in context. Security teams can then analyze the information manually or with automation assistance to look for evidence of cybersecurity dangers. Threat Indicator Confidence scoring tool.