SOC burnout is real: 3 preventative steps every CISO must take
Consider this scenario: Morgan, a level 3 security analyst, arrives to a twelve-hour security operations center (SOC) shift and finds a message that a network sensor is …
How do I select a virtual SOC solution for my business?
Other than a traditional SOC (security operations center) model, which offers continuous system monitoring to improve an organization’s security posture, there is also a …
The human cost of understaffed SOCs
SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day – with alert overload a prime culprit, a Trend Micro study reveals. …
Sophos XDR: Threat hunting through the entire security ecosystem
Almost a decade ago, ransomware started becoming a prominent consumer problem, locking computers and threatening users with fines and jail time for supposedly downloading …
Why threat hunting is obsolete without context
Cybersecurity is an undisputed concern within any industry – but how are organizations and businesses using the security data and information they collect to best ensure their …
Only 8% of businesses that paid a ransom got all of their data back
The average total cost of recovery from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in a year, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021, a Sophos survey …
Despite the pandemic, 85% of organizations completed their audits as planned
While COVID-19 was a tectonic shift for businesses, compliance programs were largely unimpacted, according to a report by A-LIGN. In fact, cybersecurity teams have compelling …
The SOC is blind to the attackable surface
A security operations center (SOC) is the central nervous system of any advanced cybersecurity program. Yet even the most well-funded, highly organized and properly equipped …
The benefits of cyber threat intelligence
In this Help Net Security podcast, Maurits Lucas, Director of Intelligence Solutions at Intel 471, discusses the benefits of cyber threat intelligence. He also talks about how …
5 key cybersecurity risks in 2021, and how to address them now
With an unexpected year of massive change behind us, many organizations have now an extensive remote workforce, new technologies in use, and digital transformation under way …
Most security pros think a WAF is high maintenance
An organization’s web application firewall (WAF) is a critical line of defense in protecting proprietary and customer data, but the concern is that some organizations are …
Why do enterprise SOC teams need CIEM now?
What is CIEM? Among the many changes of 2020, Gartner added a new category: cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM). While CIEM may sound similar to SIEM (security …