XDR and MDR: What’s the difference and why does it matter?
The cybersecurity industry loves acronyms and XDR is rising swiftly to the top of the charts of the current lexicon. Extended detection and response (XDR) is a designation …
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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 …
Knowledge graphs: The secret of Google Search and now XDR
Wading through waves of alert noise to find real threats and manually connecting the dots to find context in real-time attacks are essential capabilities in today’s …
Analysts need advanced automation tools to reduce fear of missing incidents
Security analysts are becoming less productive due to widespread “alert fatigue” resulting in ignored alerts, increased stress, and fear of missing incidents, according to an …
Three ways MITRE ATT&CK can improve your organizational security
There’s a good reason everyone’s talking about MITRE ATT&CK: it’s an objective, third-party standard with which organizations can measure their own detection coverage, as …
Securing the connected home: A joint task for homeowners and their ISP
As COVID-19 spread over the world and nations and businesses adapted to minimize citizens’ and employees’ personal interactions to help contain the infection, a …
Tech’s bigger role in pharma industry demands stronger security measures
For healthcare and pharmaceutical IT professionals, the launch of Amazon Pharmacy in late November signaled the acceleration of digitized pharma. But Amazon’s move into …
Security automation: Time for a new playbook
From increasingly sophisticated threats to the mad concoction of on-premise and cloud solutions that comprise most organizations’ IT infrastructure and the plethora of new IoT …
Three signs your SOC is ready for XDR
Over the past year, there’s been a movement growing in the industry towards Extended Detection and Response, or XDR. While a few offerings represent broad portfolio …
Remote and cloud-based systems to be ruthlessly targeted next year
Home networks, remote working software and cloud systems will be at the center of a new wave of attacks in 2021, Trend Micro predicts. Cybercriminals in 2021 will particularly …
XDR: Unifying incident detection, response and remediation
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, the average time it took a company in 2019 to identify and contain a breach was 279 days. It was 266 days in 2018 …
Organizations plan to use AI and ML to tackle unknown attacks faster
Wipro published a report which provides fresh insights on how AI will be leveraged as part of defender stratagems as more organizations lock horns with sophisticated …