As a kid, keeping a secret meant not telling anyone else information that a friend chose to share with you and trusted you to protect. In the digital era, protecting customer and employee sensitive data works similarly. Although establishing privacy controls and maintaining data protection are more difficult when managing complex IT environments, the principles underlying your data protection initiatives remain the same.

Introducing the new Elastic Security Value Calculator. With this tool, you can quickly quantify the financial efficiencies Elastic® can deliver for your organization. Estimate Elastic's value to your organization. Visualize how Elastic Security improves KPIs around risk, costs, and productivity. The numbers tell the story: achieving holistic visibility reduces risk, improves productivity, and drives cost savings and revenue recovery.

When you engage in a security incident investigation, you need to quickly sift through vast quantities of data. In that moment, tracking your attacker, containing the attack, and identifying the root cause are the activities that matter most. However, in an attack’s aftermath, the digital recovery process and post-incident paperwork becomes your new nightmare.

For those responsible directly or indirectly for the cyber defense of their organizations, June 2023 is proving to be an extremely challenging month. In this month alone, vulnerabilities were discovered in various appliances, ranging from CVE-2023-27997 impacting FortiGate devices to CVE-2023-35708 impacting MOVEit Transfer software as well as the exploitation activity discovered of Barracuda appliances via CVE-2023-2868.

SIEMs play a crucial role in the modern SOC: They allow you to collect, correlate and analyze log data and alerts for security and compliance. Yet, despite their value, SIEMs have struggled to keep up with today’s logging performance and scalability requirements. Given that adversaries are operating faster than ever, organizations must prioritize the capabilities that help them identify and respond to threats quickly.

What a time it is for data and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), with large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation accelerating at unprecedented speed. How quickly can the MoD take operational advantage of these advancements? Now is the time to unleash the power of data and transform how the MoD approaches cybersecurity to outpace adversaries, gain multi-domain operational efficiency, and of course, attain rapid decision-making superiority.

Personally identifiable information (PII) compliance is an ever-increasing challenge for any organization. Whether you’re in ecommerce, banking, healthcare, or other fields where data is sensitive, PII may inadvertently be captured and stored. Having structured logs enables quick identification, removal, and protection of sensitive data fields easily; but what about unstructured messages? Or perhaps call center transcriptions?

You’ve probably heard the Boy Scout motto, “be prepared.” In his 1908 handbook, Scouting for Boys, the author explained, “it shows you how you must be prepared for what is possible, not only what is probable.” Your cyber incident response plan is how you prepare for a possible, and, also in today’s world, probable security incident or data breach. Unfortunately, since every organization is different, no single plan will work for everyone.

US state and local government agencies continue to contend with a dizzyingly complex IT environment, which includes data silos, tool sprawl, rising cyber threats, and limited availability of cybersecurity experts. In response, many state CISOs are exploring a “whole-of-state” cybersecurity strategy, which aims to bolster their state’s security through centralization and collaboration.

The financial outlook for the rest of 2023 and 2024 is far from cheery, and economic uncertainty is affecting everyone and everything, including the cybersecurity sector. Security budget cuts or freezes are the course many organizations are tempted to take in this financially precarious situation. Conservative spending is a natural response to the present economic downturn and a possible recession knocking on our doors, implying fewer clients, lower profits, and higher costs.

The rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity is witnessing the genesis of new paradigms, redefining the ways we perceive threat detection and response. Traditional approaches to cybersecurity are proving less effective against the sophistication of modern cyber threats. Among the many possible solutions, the integration of Threat Intelligence (TI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as an impressive contender, aiming to set a new standard in the industry.

Over twenty years ago, a series of corporate financial scandals set off a chain reaction, culminating in criminal convictions and new legislation. After uncovering accounting fraud across public companies like Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco, the US Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).

The Business Intelligence Group announced the winners of the Fortress Award 2023 on May 31. We are thrilled to share that ManageEngine AD360 stood out amongst the competition, earning recognition in the Authentication and Identity category. The Fortress Award is a prestigious accolade in the cybersecurity space, and it recognizes outstanding achievements and innovations in the fight against cyberthreats.

Given the increasing frequency, tempo, and sophistication of cyber attacks, it's more important than ever that organizations take a proactive approach to protecting their sensitive data and assets. One of the most critical elements of effective cybersecurity is openness. An open approach to cybersecurity means being transparent, sharing knowledge, and collaborating to build more robust defenses against threats.

As digitalization becomes a norm, businesses are transitioning to cloud services for increased scalability, cost-effectiveness, and operational efficiency. But this transformation comes with a new challenge — securing the cloud.

Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions like Microsoft Sentinel SIEM are at the heart of most security operations teams. But like any SIEM, while Microsoft Sentinel can be an incredible tool for centralising security data, it also risks being expensive and ineffective. In a recent webinar I discuss these problems and how SenseOn can help supercharge Azure Sentinel. You can now watch this webinar anytime online.

What are the key differences between SIEM, SOAR, XDR & Logsign Unified SO Platform? SIEM, SOAR, XDR and Logsign USO Platform are all cybersecurity technologies that help organizations detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. However, they differ in their scope, capabilities, and focus. Here are the key differences between them.

Cybersecurity is a constant journey, always full of fresh challenges. New threats keep popping up. Endpoint-only solutions are ineffective. And the cybersecurity skills shortage makes it difficult to recruit and retain top talent — especially with the increasing salaries required to be competitive. You may consider a security operations center (SOC), until you find out that operating one in-house is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.

SIEM and UEBA are complementary solutions that can work together to provide a comprehensive view of network activity and enhance the threat detection and response capabilities of cybersecurity teams. By integrating SIEM and UEBA, organizations can benefit from.

For years, security leaders have debated the advantages of building in-house security operations centers or outsourcing the SOC function to a third party. Both options have their pros and cons. The best choice for each organization depends on a few factors: the type of threats it encounters, the resources it has at its disposal, the complexity and breadth of their attack surface, and the commitment it wants to make to advanced threat hunting.

Investigating a security event is the less glamorous version of an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Without the snazzy, high-end, mostly-fictitious technology that television shows you, your actual digital forensics investigation usually involves an arduous process of reviewing technical data and looking for the breadcrumbs a malicious actor left behind.

In an era where data is often referred to as the “new oil,” the importance of data security can't be overstated. Breaches can lead to financial losses, reputational damage, and lost trust among customers and stakeholders. One primary step toward mitigating security risks is choosing a data store that has been designed with a robust security framework.