Security Operations Managed Security Services Succeed with Orchestration and Automation February 15, 2019 by arpit According to Gartner, the managed security services market is growing by more than 9.5% every year and has already surpassed $10 billion mark in revenue. The market has continued its strong growth as managed security services have become popular among businesses to secure critical assets and data. Managed security services bring with them various benefits […] Read more » managed security services MSSP
Security Operations 6 Quora Security Breach Lessons December 9, 2018 by arpit Last week it happened again. News of the Quora Security Breach was officially announced late Monday afternoon in a company blog post and email directly notifying 100 million affected users. This kind of shocking news is no longer shocking, and everyone in the industry needs to prepare for the day it will happen to them. […] Read more » Data Breach incident response Quora Breach security breach
Security Operations What Does SOC Flexibility mean for CISOs? October 24, 2018 by arpit CISOs are born leaders, the role of a Chief Information Security Officer is not easy and there are a number of challenges for CISOs to address related to infrastructure, existing security portfolio and adoption of innovative and incisive technologies. As the number of threats keeps growing; be it ransomware, targeted attacks aimed at stealing the […] Read more » CISO flexibility SOC
Security Operations SANS Survey Highlights – 2018 Security Operations Center Survey August 13, 2018 by arpit The 2018 SANS survey just came out and is chock full of important industry trends and practices that every SOC manager needs to know. We strongly recommend carefully reading through the entire report and attending the SANS webinar on August 16. Since security operations professionals are super busy, we have provided this quick summary of […] Read more » SANS
Security Operations Using Intelligence Approaches to Confront the New Cyber Threat Actors March 29, 2018 by arpit The new cybersecurity threat actors are more creative than ever, their goals are changing, and their playground is expanding. Attackers leverage the converging IT/OT attack surface to launch multi-vector attacks and use ransomware not only to lock down workstations but to damage entire businesses. The new attackers have scaled up their goals, aiming to cause […] Read more » counterterror cybersecurity
Security Operations Fast Incident Response Can Save GDPR Fines February 28, 2018 by arpit The most feared part of the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation is the steep GDPR fines. The new regulation will take full effect in May 2018 and is relevant to all companies – whether they’re located in the EU or not – that collect, store or process personal data of EU residents. The regulations […] Read more » GDPR incident response
Security Operations SOC Incident Response will Fail in a Real Cyberattack November 16, 2017 by arpit Carefully thought-out incident response procedures are meant to streamline every task and detail in your SOC incident response plan. Yet when security analysts are faced with real life cyberattack, SOC procedures don’t always work as planned. The SOC team faces the challenge of handling the entire incident response lifecycle; monitoring, detection, prevention, investigation, response and […] Read more » incident response SIEM
Security Operations Think GDPR compliance is just about data security? October 17, 2017 by arpit The EU General Data Protection Regulation (known as “GDPR”), which will take effect on May 25, 2018, will have major effects on maintaining the confidentiality of personal data. While the GDPR is typically associated with data protection, it also provides strict requirements about notifying both authorities and customers about breaches that put personal consumer data […] Read more » GDPR
Security Operations Top 5 Open Source Incident Response Automation Tools August 27, 2017 by arpit SOC analysts are becoming worn down due to the growing amount of cyber security threats, ongoing alert fatigue, and the industry skill shortage that is leaving SOCs understaffed. Automation of a variety of tasks, both routine and complex, frees up much-needed analyst time and accelerates the whole incident response process. As attackers are becoming faster […] Read more » Incident Response Automation Open Source IT Tools