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 […]
The Biden Administration’s Cyber Executive Order includes a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), an electronically readable format designed to provide an inventory of third-party components that make up software components. It is a critical and necessary first measure for protecting the software supply chain, but is it enough?One of the biggest challenges to supply chain transparency […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Solarwinds Orion SUNBURST attack has been in the news for weeks. We’re starting to get great details into the actual attack, especially after FireEye released the initial set of indicators of compromise. But the question I want answered is why didn’t anyone discover this attack before the breach. What defenses are we missing to […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are numerous security use cases where the integration of network packet data provides additional contextual information for better actionability. Free and open source packet capture tools do a great job capturing packets, but how do you collect, aggregate, and analyze that data at scale? Let’s start with a quick review of packet capture tools, […]
