By way of a brief introduction, I have had a 25+ year career in technology, and this has come with some wonderful experiences and opportunities along the way. One constant throughout my journey has been a need to increasingly leverage data, enabling informed decisions (even automated) at all levels to ensure: secure, high performing and observable products and services are available to the customers and partners I’ve been supporting.
Data encryption is one of the many ways organizations can protect their data. Encryption turns plaintext (readable data) into ciphertext (randomized data), which requires the use of a unique cryptographic key for interpretation. In other words, encryption is a security measure used to scramble data so that it can only be read by authorized personnel.
"People tell you who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.” - Don Draper Earlier this year we announced some security enhancements to how we handle submissions to Splunkbase. The simple statement is we are making things faster/cheaper/better where Splunkbase security is concerned. Faster in that it takes less time for a developer to get an app into our platform. Cheaper in that it’s more automated.
With the high rate of cyberattacks today, the role of a chief information security officer (CISO) has become more important — and much more visible. Businesses have been forced to invest in guarding their infrastructures, networks and sensitive data. This blog post will take a look at the basics of a CISO, as well as the CISO's main tasks and responsibilities.
A major subset of overall cybersecurity, Information Security focuses on protecting sensitive data and information from the risks of cyberattacks. It covers but is not limited to: The fundamental goal of information security is to prevent sensitive data from being compromised by criminals or state actors. InfoSec encompasses a wide range of tasks and practices, spanning from monitoring user behavior to assessing risk to ongoing education.
This past June I presented a.conf22 session called “A Beginner’s Guide to SOAR: Automating the Basics” to address perceptions about SOAR adoption among security practitioners. This was my first in-person presentation to a live audience in several years because of the pandemic and I was encouraged to find that the session was among the highest attended at the event with well over 200 attendees in the room.
I originally planned to write this story as a follow-up to another blog that SURGe released for CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 (aka SpookySSL). That blog mentions that we weren’t able to test with any malicious payloads yet, and as things go… After releasing that blog, we came across proof-of-concept exploits that weren’t detected by our searches.
Simplify your procurement process and subscribe to Splunk Cloud via the AWS marketplace Unlock the secrets of machine data with our new guide All companies want to protect their reputation as any mishandling of it, either self-inflicted or via outside forces, can have a devastating impact. Mitigating reputational issues involves mitigating the risk that leads to them.
Agent Tesla is a remote access trojan (RAT) written for the.NET framework that has knowingly been in operation since 2014. Threat actors behind this malware have leveraged many different methods to deliver their payload over time including macro enabled Word documents, Microsoft Office vulnerabilities, OLE objects and most recently, compiled HTML help files.
We live in a world of rapid technological advancements. Technologies such as big data, the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence have created a world full of opportunities and solutions. However, it has also opened doors to increased threats, cyberattacks and network vulnerabilities. This post will explain network security, including relevant concepts and issues, as well as best practices that can your organizations secure all your networks and surfaces.
Sometimes referred to as CKC or the cyberattack lifecycle, the cyber kill chain is a security defense model developed to identify and stop sophisticated cyberattacks before they impact an organization. Typically comprised of seven steps, a cyber kill chain model breaks down the multiple stages of a cyberattack, allowing security teams to recognize, intercept or prevent them.
As available software on the market increases, so do vulnerabilities. When a company's system is weak due to vulnerabilities in the software it uses, attackers take advantage of the situation to: This, in turn, causes the company to lose customers, reputation and money. To reduce threats, network personnel and system administrators are always on the front line, constantly patching the organization's software and operating systems. But to what end?
Earlier this year, Splunk sponsored the report, "SOC 2025: The Future of Security Operations Centers" from Securosis, which is based on previously published blogs by analyst and president Mike Rothman (now with Techstrong Research).
Homomorphic encryption brings a whole new paradigm to encrypting data. In this article, I’ll explain homomorphic encryption, including.
