Security pros like their job, yet many struggle with burnout and work-life balance
There is a persistent gap among cybersecurity professionals regarding gender and diversity, but also challenges with work-life balance. Lack of diversity Among the security …
The rise of modern applications, DevSecOps and the intelligence economy
There has been a significant year-over-year growth in enterprise usage trends around multi-cloud adoption, open source technologies such as Kubernetes, and AWS cloud-native …
The persistent struggle to improve SOC productivity reveals the need for newer SIEM technologies
On average, security personnel in U.S. enterprises waste approximately 25 percent of their time chasing false positives because security alerts or indicators of compromise …
Your backup data sets can become a treasure trove for advanced threat detection
Despite ever increasing investments in security technologies, data breaches and cyber incidents are increasing at a relentless rate, and the problem is projected to keep …
Are SMBs driving the adoption of security automation by enterprises?
If you tracked the lifecycle of new security technologies, you’d likely see that most start as enterprise solutions and eventually trickle down to small and medium-sized …
The evil of vanity metrics
With the fast-paced evolution of tools and connectedness in business operations, the amount of network and log data has exploded. However, organizations have largely failed to …
Is this the year SIEM goes over the cliff?
While this may not be the year that Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions fall off of the cliff of relevancy into obsolete software land, they are slowly …
Getting the most out of your SIEM investment
Over the last 10-15 years, many organizations built Security Operations Centers (SOCs) on the backbone of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. These …
5 incident response practices that keep enterprises from adapting to new threats
Security analysts within enterprises are living a nightmare that never ends. 24 hours a day, their organizations are being attacked by outside (and sometimes inside) …
3 sour notes interrupting security operations harmony
Great musicians and instruments alone do not make beautiful music. It is the conductor who leads the orchestra and turns the collection of sounds into perfectly executed …
Worldwide infosec spending to reach $90 billion in 2017
Enterprises are transforming their security spending strategy in 2017, moving away from prevention-only approaches to focus more on detection and response, according to …
Integrating threat intelligence with existing security technologies
70 percent of security industry professionals believe threat intelligence is often too voluminous and/or complex to provide actionable insights. Perceptions about the …