Leveraging social media in advanced threat intelligence
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Christian Lees, CISO at InfoArmor, discusses how leveraging social media helps to understand the motives and threat landscape …
SIEM challenges: Why your security team isn’t receiving valuable insights
Today, many enterprises use security information and event management (SIEM) software to help detect suspicious activity on their networks. However, to be effective …
Getting a start on cyber threat hunting
In this age of advanced persistent threats, waiting for traditional threat management solutions like IDS and SIEM to flag incidents and threats is simply not enough anymore. …
What’s needed for the first NYS DFS cybersecurity transitional phase?
The first transitional phase of the New York State’s Department of Financial Services (NYS DFS) cybersecurity regulation is upon us. As of August 28th, 2017 covered entities …
Learning from success: Brian Honan’s infosec journey
When Brian Honan started his information security consultancy thirteen years ago, most of his conversations were with those in charge of IT and/or IT security within an …
Why you need to implement security controls across your environment
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Tim White, Director of Product Management, Policy Compliance at Qualys, discusses the importance of security configuration …
Doing things right: Cloud and SecOps adoption
There is hardly an organization out there that isn’t planning or hasn’t already taken advantage of the cloud. And, according to Threat Stack CTO Sam Bisbee, there is hardly a …
Gaming the system for a better experience
I play a lot of video games and one of the things I’ve noticed is that when you first start playing, the game often keeps you from venturing into places where you’re likely to …
Three barriers to digital IDs on the blockchain
There has been a lot of hype around blockchain technology and the benefits it could potentially bring to a wide variety of verticals, including identity verification. While …
The human point: Gaining visibility into the context behind user actions
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2017, Dr. Richard Ford, Chief Scientist at Forcepoint, talks about the security industry’s need of a paradigm shift toward …
Three megatrends that will drive digital business into the next decade
Gartner revealed three distinct megatrends that will enable businesses to survive and thrive in the digital economy over the next five to 10 years. Artificial intelligence …
Enterprise security culture: Why you need it, and how to create it
Security awareness is a term that most information security professionals are familiar with – security culture a little less so. “Security awareness training is …