For many enterprises, incident response is an exercise in chaos. Security teams scramble to figure out how a data breach happened and crash into brick walls as they try to collect information from different departments that are often siloed from everyone else. It doesn’t have to be that way. Advanced security teams have learned that […]
Security starts before detection and response, but many organizations focus there first. Mature security teams understand the importance of identification and protection. Establishing good cyber hygiene and taking proactive measures to secure themselves against the ever-increasing threat landscape is a critical first step in a holistic security program. How should organizations build a holistic security […]
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 […]
