CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 8, 2022

By Steve Moore, Chief Security Strategist, Exabeam. When you take a step back and consider these statistics, you will quickly realize the gravity of what is at stake for organizations when it comes to effectively securing their confidential information – and that there is still a lot more to be done to combat this growing trend.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

As you are reading our recent paper “Autonomic Security Operations?—?10X 10X Transformation of the Security Operations Center” , some of you may think “Hey, marketing inserted that 10X thing in there.”. If your service remains in the same state after you have finished a task , the task was probably toil.”.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Today, on December 27, 2023, we ( Boris Larin , Leonid Bezvershenko , and Georgy Kucherin ) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2022

With relief for the growing security skills gap nearly a decade out, we must find ways to support the analysts that are already working to protect us. So, what do we do in the meantime? What about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science? Why do we need to augment our analysts? A recent U.S. A recent U.S.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What is AI’s emerging role in cybersecurity?” At its core, AI harnesses the power of machine learning and natural language processing, becoming a possible linchpin that can fortify security measures or unleash sophisticated cyber attacks overwhelming organizations and their security practitioners.

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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. Sounds like something only huge businesses or nation states would need to do, right? What is cyber threat hunting? What is MDR? That’s where MDR comes in.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

As a nation, we are much less safe from a cyber security posture than we were a month ago.” “These are criminal investigations involving national security. .” “These are criminal investigations involving national security. The ongoing partial U.S.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 28, 2022

What’s Next?”” (the seemingly self-centered title was suggested by CardinalOps who organized the webinar). Q: When do you think the industry will understand what XDR entails? Q: How do you define ‘XDR’ and what role does SIEM play here? So no convergence yet, and this means one can’t easily predict where it is going.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With its new multi-cloud strategy, Microsoft is stressing security. It’s “the mother of all problems,” Microsoft’s new security chief Charlie Bell said to the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “If He has a budget to spend billions of dollars to build security products,” according to the Journal. .

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McAfee

MARCH 9, 2020

Automation and orchestration are central to the proverbial cyber security dance between IT operations and security operations center (SOC). Orchestration is bringing technologies (security and non-security) to coordinate and work together. Abbreviated NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What is AI’s emerging role in cybersecurity?” At its core, AI harnesses the power of machine learning and natural language processing, becoming a possible linchpin that can fortify security measures or unleash sophisticated cyber attacks overwhelming organizations and their security practitioners.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In this interview, Camille Stewart, Google’s Head of Security Policy for Google Play and Android explains how understanding how systemic racism influences cyber security is integral to protecting the American people and defending the country from cyber adversaries. But what about the lack of diversity? Read the whole entry. »

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McAfee

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The first step to developing a strong cloud security posture is visibility o ver the often hundreds of services your employees use, what data is within these services, and then how they are being used collaboratively with third parties and other destinations outside of your control. . Our Research to Uncover the Best Solution

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Security Through Education

MAY 5, 2021

Instead of leaving what’s invisible to you open as a means of entry to attack, this post will help you think like us, the ethical attackers, to define your vulnerabilities and removing them. However, the threat is a real one and it can strike from anywhere and at any time. ” — Maxie Reynolds. Spies and Conmen—Us and Them.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Often they lack the visibility of a SOC. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

The ongoing war in the Ukraine has led to more nation-state sponsored attacks that tend to have societal and economic impacts. The ongoing war in the Ukraine has led to more nation-state sponsored attacks that tend to have societal and economic impacts. Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S.

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McAfee

MAY 17, 2021

Then, at the apex of suspense while the music ascends to a crescendo, a hard thumping release, she reaches out to grasp a microchip placed in the center of the room on a pedestal as if the room were designed only to show off its magnificence. SIEM technologies have been used in security operations for over 15 years for a few reasons.

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NopSec

AUGUST 23, 2022

What a cybersecurity team is striving for is understanding and managing the risks their organization faces. Reviewing Vulnerability and Threat Assessment Techniques We looked closely at vulnerability in previous blogs, but a quick summary here can help us keep in mind what vulnerability assessment consists of.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

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. The company currently secures $5.7 What sets Secureworks apart from the competition is its focus on collaboration with its clients.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The IDS device is so smart, it learns what’s normal on your network and does not immediately inform you when it sees an anomaly. ML-enabled security may not be robust , meaning that it works well on one data set (more often than not, the vendor’s), but not on another (your real network). Detection rate != real intrusions.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The IDS device is so smart, it learns what’s normal on your network and does not immediately inform you when it sees an anomaly. ML-enabled security may not be robust , meaning that it works well on one data set (more often than not, the vendor’s), but not on another (your real network). Detection rate != real intrusions.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The IDS device is so smart, it learns what’s normal on your network and does not immediately inform you when it sees an anomaly. ML-enabled security may not be robust , meaning that it works well on one data set (more often than not, the vendor’s), but not on another (your real network). Detection rate != real intrusions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

and Washington was among the first states to issue shelter at home orders. Today robust security frameworks are gaining traction for staying on top of patching software vulnerabilities, managing account access and responding swiftly to any suspicious activity detected on endpoint computing devices.

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

The days of just a single bad actor searching for vulnerabilities in your security stack are over. Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and the security analyst community are dealing with a sophisticated global network of adversaries who can do irreversible damage. What happened: . Key findings .

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Penetration testing is something that many (of those who know what a pentest is) see as a search for weak spots and well-known vulnerabilities in clients’ infrastructure, and a bunch of copied-and-pasted recommendations on how to deal with the security holes thus discovered. Who is an analyst?

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

But dig a little deeper and you’ll find that contributors to open source projects constitute an overlooked pool of talent who can bring diversity of thought and experience to your security team. Before that, Stanwyck built an open source-based SOC for the U.S. Before that, Stanwyck built an open source-based SOC for the U.S.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An understanding of how various gangs operate and what tools they use helps build competent defenses and investigate incidents. Back then, the cybercriminals had not yet adopted the moniker “Cuba”; they were known as “Tropical Scorpius” Cuba mostly targets organizations in the United States, Canada and Europe.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Current attack trends add urgency, and catching up on doing basic security best practices isn’t enough. Eventually, governments will address the risk by beefing up security and purchasing cyber insurance, which go hand in glove. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Atlanta refused to pay a $51,000 ransom, and ate $17 million in damage.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

With about half a million VARs currently operating and roughly 75,000 MSPs, what opportunities exist for expansion? With about half a million VARs currently operating and roughly 75,000 MSPs, what opportunities exist for expansion? Also see: Best Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs). Competition is fierce.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

To ensure robust IT and security capabilities, most organizations turn to outsourcing to provide a wide variety of solutions to satisfy their even wider variety of outsourcing needs. Unfortunately, some executives will believe that simply engaging an IT outsourcing vendor will deliver improved security and internal IT department performance.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. What is Deception Technology? But it can work the other way. That is the basic premise behind deception tools and technologies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In fact, it’s hard to think of a time that security has been moving more quickly. One of these needs is greater integration of our existing sets of security tools. One of these needs is greater integration of our existing sets of security tools. What is XDR? What’s in a name?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Webroot

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s important for a business to be prepared with an exercised business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan plan before its hit with ransomware so that it can resume operations as quickly as possible. It’s also essential to ensure end-users are trained on ransomware threats as a part of a good security awareness training program.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

DDoS attacks may only make up a small percentage of security threats, but their consequences can be devastating. While there are some things security teams can do to lessen the impact of DDoS attacks , the growing sophistication of such attacks has sparked strong growth in the market for DDoS solutions, driven by the growth in DDoS itself.

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