While 2021 will, unfortunately, play host to a wide variety of threats, it’s unlikely any factor will feature more prominently than cryptocurrency. Two types of attacks leverage cryptocurrency directly: extortion and cryptojacking. Before cryptocurrency, cybercriminals worked a lot harder to get paid a lot less. Turning stolen personal information or credit cards into a paycheck […]
Application security has become a complex, distributed problem. During the days of waterfall development and monolithic applications, application security was pretty straight forward – statically scan your source code, dynamically test your business logic, and deploy a web application firewall to protect layer 7 traffic. But with agile development, DevOps processes, and containerized applications, application […]
The MITRE ATT&CK Framework is widely recognized as instrumental in providing a common language and framework for describing attack techniques and effectively sharing information across organizations. However, we’re just starting to see the potential benefits this matrix can provide when integrated directly into security tools. Uptycs recently announced a major release of its product that […]
Although Linux is still a fraction of the market share of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, its growth continues to accelerate. Linux will continue to grow at compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.2% through 2027. Some of the primary factors for this growth include: Cloud computing infrastructure, Containerization of applications, and Microsoft’s support […]
Last fall we discussed what security data do I really need to collect and analyze. We know we don’t need it all, but this was only the sensor part of the discussion. Now that we have that data identified and those sensors in place, what brain do I need to collect and analyze it? There […]
There are a lot of endpoint security solutions on the market. How do you pick and choose which solution is right for you? The answer may depend on which endpoints you want to protect. Windows? MacOS? Linux? All of the above? What about containers and cloud infrastructure? When we think of traditional endpoints, we immediately […]
Paul and I have talked a lot about his enchanted quadrants on the podcasts, but for those who haven’t watched, here’s a quick summary… An effective security program requires the integration of four key data sources: Logs (firewall, network, application, etc.) Endpoint (files, processes, logs, etc.) Network (flow and packets) Threat Intelligence Most organizations build […]
The endpoint market has been hot for years. At one point, there were over 80 new endpoint vendors trying to displace the traditional anti-virus vendors. The endpoint security market was transitioning from endpoint protection to endpoint detection and response (EDR). EDR is all the rage, but do you really need one? While the endpoint market […]
We’ve been told for years that we don’t have enough data for security. Then we see the headlines and quotes… “Organizations must prepare for collecting, processing, analyzing, and acting upon terabytes of security data.” “All decisions about cybersecurity strategies, program priorities, investments, etc. should be made based upon analysis of real-time and historical data.” New […]
In the world of cybersecurity, we talk about a lot of capabilities and tools. But if we think about what the hackers want, it’s our data. Why do we focus so much time and effort on the network and endpoint, but not the data? I get it, data security is hard (or at least it […]
