IT Security Guru

MARCH 27, 2024

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) was born from a realisation that businesses, particularly those in financial services, rely increasingly on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and digital means to operate.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 29, 2022

After years of a severe skills drought, the availability of security professionals appears to be gradually improving. The global shortfall in security professionals dropped from 3.12 Gartner has predicted that nearly half of all organizations will be using MDR services by 2025. Ed Williams, EMEA Director of SpiderLabs,?

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Since the launch of our Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) enhancements in 2022 , we’ve helped companies spanning all sizes and sectors improve their threat detection capabilities and move away from a ‘secure by default’ mindset that has rendered ineffective against the evolving and complex threat landscape.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, security teams are leveraging security capabilities in the form of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software to help identify and respond to security threats in real-time. SIEM enables security teams to detect and respond to threats, manage incident response, and minimize risks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you are like us, you may be surprised that, in 2024, traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems are still the backbone of most security operations centers (SOC). But if you’re still using an outdated SIEM, you’re putting your organization at risk [A.C. — are Legacy SIEMs [ A.C. — many

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Cybersecurity can be difficult to implement, and to make matters worse, the security professionals needed to do it right are in short supply. Managed IT security service providers (MSSPs) make life easier for organizations by providing outsourced expertise and tools at a fraction of the cost, time, and trouble of doing it yourself.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

There’s a frantic scramble going on among those responsible for network security at organizations across all sectors. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. In many cases the tedious, first-level correlating of SIEM logs to sift out threats has moved beyond human capability. Smart money.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2021

Network security is in the throes of a metamorphosis. Advanced technologies and fresh security frameworks are being implemented to deter cyber attacks out at the services edge, where all the action is. Related: Automating security-by-design in SecOps. This means Security Operations Centers are in a transition.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2023

IT security buyers are consolidating vendors at an overwhelming rate, according to a speaker at this week’s Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. ” Security Products Merge Into Platforms As part of that trend, security products are consolidating too, MacDonald said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Monitoring and tracking potential threats from the dark web, open source, and social media platforms to detect threats that could attack your organization is critical to ensure public and corporate safety and security. For this reason, the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in managed services adoption.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2020

Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level. Nearly 60 percent of the respondents indicated the pace of their cloud deployments have surpassed their ability to secure them in a timely manner.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Patch management is all about helping organizations manage the process of patching software and applications. Because of all those challenges, managed security service providers (MSSPs) and patch and vulnerability management vendors have begun to offer services that do all the heavy lifting for organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 16, 2021

And more than ever, they also need an incident response service that can step in to help clean up those messes. With 13% of human-related breaches containing ransomware and 10% of ransomware attacks costing organizations an average of $1 million, IT security teams need to be prepared for the worst. Check Point Incident Response.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. Exabeam is a bold upstart in the SIEM space.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management (ASM) is a relatively new cybersecurity technology that combines elements of vulnerability management and asset discovery with the automation capabilities of breach and attack simulation (BAS) and applies them to an organization’s entire IT environment, from networks to the cloud.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

When you hear the words “cyber threat hunting”, you just may picture an elite team of security professionals scouring your systems for malware. Cybercriminals know that most SMBs don’t have the budget for robust cybersecurity technology or seasoned security professionals. What is cyber threat hunting?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

A cyberattack is any action taken by a cyber criminal in an attempt to illegally gain control of a computer, device, network, or system with malicious intent. Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Cyberattack Statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

And that’s why cyber threat hunting adds human and technical elements to cyber defenses to try to find signs that those cyber defenses may have already been breached. Threat hunting teams are often composed of analysts from SOC teams or similarly qualified security pros.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 2, 2022

BH Consulting is an ever-expanding cybersecurity and data protection consulting service – with offices in Dublin, London and New York. As part of our continued expansion, we wish to appoint a Technical Cybersecurity Consultant who can conduct security assessments of clients technical infrastructure (M365/Azure/AWS/Backups/Networks etc.)

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

The average small and medium-size business experiences a cyber attack 44 times every day. Related article: SIEMs strive for a comeback. Over the past decade, cyber security solutions have evolved into specific categories of solutions. UEBA vs SIEM. More than 230,000 new malware samples are launched every day.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And a SIEM is always a good idea for centrally managing everything. Ransomware recovery services. The final piece you should consider is having an arrangement with a ransomware recovery service should a crippling ransomware attack occur. Here then is our review of the best ransomware recovery services.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For businesses with scarce security staff resources and disconnected, complex toolsets, keeping up with today’s cyberthreats is even harder. That’s why an outsourced Security Operations Center (SOC) is a great option for resource-constrained organizations. Project manage the facility operations and day-to-day functions.

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McAfee

MARCH 18, 2020

Why does my organization need to have a Shadow IT solution when we already own a Next-Gen Firewall / Web Proxy and have all the logs in a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution? NGFW and Web Proxies typically catalog web services using a category and a reputation score.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A recent study of 10 organizations found that, on average, rules and policies tied to security information and event management solutions, or SIEM, cover only 16 percent of the tactics and techniques listed in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This is not the first research-based report focusing on such challenges.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2020

McAfee was the only vendor to be named the January 2020 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ Customers’ Choice for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs). Disclaimer: Gartner, Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Access Security Brokers, 13 March 2020. Coolest Cloud and Coolest Endpoint Security Companies.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Splunk will continue to be the 800-pound gorilla in the SIEM marketplace. In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results. Everything from customer success, product development, marketing, legal, finance, and human capital management has an AI element.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 17, 2021

Herjavec Group is thrilled to announce that we have won four distinctions in the 2021 Cyber Defense Global Awards. . For this recognition, Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) reviews the hottest, most innovative, market-leading cybersecurity players globally, recognizing the top one hundred firms worldwide. . HG Security Engineering .

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 29, 2022

Organizations developing a Security operations center(SOC) should consider which strategy they should adopt based on available cybersecurity professional resources: offensive or defensive? Are they experienced cyber warriors or recent additions to the cybersecurity field or resources moving over from traditional IT roles?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

However, managing on-premises and cloud-based systems can be challenging and can increase the enterprise’s attack surface. This shift calls for changes in security strategies, as more complex ‘work from anywhere’ IT demands more resources and new vulnerabilities open up. It isn’t all bad news, however.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies. Security of local and state government agencies takes on a higher level of urgency as we get closer to the midterm elections. Consequently, the security of these kinds of systems has become paramount.”.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 2, 2021

Herjavec Group is thrilled to announce that we have won two distinctions and received 2 finalist recognitions in the 2021 Cyber Defense Black Unicorn Awards. . Herjavec Group’s award-winning Managed Security Services Practice defends global, enterprise-level organizations from increasingly sophisticated, targeted cybercrime threats.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2022

The sheer volume of security alerts generated by a SIEM can be overwhelming, and it is critical that security teams are able to prioritize the alerts that could stop a potential attack in its tracks. In the security monitoring space, an alert is created by a security information event management (SIEM) tool.

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Anton on Security

MAY 13, 2021

A few days ago we did a very well-attended webinar focused on the modern Security Operations Center (SOC) approach (see “Trend for the Modern SOC” for a replay link). Q: What is the difference between SIEM and SOC? That is why I am always a bit skeptical when I hear SOC-as-a-service, and I prefer the term MDR instead.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

The cities of Middleton, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Hamilton, and Topsfield formed the North Shore IT Collaborative in 2021 with the goal of their collective power being stronger than what they can manage alone. Small entities struggle with the cost of security services. It's a win-win.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. Saurabh spent 15 years leading product development at ArcSight, the SIEM management company acquired by HP for $1.5 billion, and later co-founded SumoLogic.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services offer their clients 24/7 turnkey threat monitoring, detection and remote response capabilities. These services are managed by outsourced teams of experts to help remove some of the need for dedicated onsite security staff and to decrease the amount of day-to-day work for their clients.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Usually after the phrase there are MD5 hashes [1] , IP addresses and other technical data that should help information security specialists to counter a specific threat. What is cyber threat intelligence, and how do we use it in GReAT? This is what we call cyber threat intelligence. How does GReAT identify IOCs?

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