Nearly every business today uses some Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. From streamlined productivity to team communication, web applications drive business revenue outcomes. Simultaneously, these applications expand your company’s attack surface since every connection creates new access points that threat actors can use to compromise systems and networks.

It’s been a week. A long week. After the most recent Board of Directors meeting, your senior leadership tasked you with finding a security analytics solution. Over the last month, you’ve worked with leadership to develop some basic use cases to determine which solution meets your security and budget needs. You started your research, but everything on the market seems really overwhelming.

Today’s cyber threat landscape necessitates that we, as defenders of the enterprise, place identities at the center of our detection, prevention and response efforts. Indeed, threat actor tactics and techniques observed in the wild demonstrate that credential theft presents a large risk to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems - be they on premises or in the cloud.

A SIEM’s price can be a bit of a shock. As we’ve covered in another blog, the price of a security information and event management (SIEM) solution is never just about licensing (or whatever you initially agree to pay a vendor for data processing). Even though SIEM licensing costs can easily be tens of thousands of pounds for a small organisation with less than 20 GB of monthly data flow.

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has set the beginning of a new age of data transfer. Each day, a massive number of new devices get added to all kinds of network infrastructures, transferring gargantuan amounts of data back and forth. In the next decade, we expect the number of IoTs to grow to a staggering 207 billion connected devices – practically outnumbering the human population tenfold.

Businesses are currently witnessing improvements in cybersecurity capabilities, thanks to advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, the progress is accompanied by a parallel increase in the threat and sophistication of cyber-attacks, especially when the right event monitoring and threat detection tools are not utilized. Deloitte's latest research on security operations indicates that in 2023, 12.5% of businesses experienced more than one security event.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) authorization has, for years, been seen as an arduous undertaking only for companies that want to do business with government agencies and their contractors. However, with growing cybersecurity risks, coupled with tightening data privacy regulations across industries, FedRAMP’s fundamental security requirements are becoming best practices for all organizations handling sensitive data.

Although SIEMs have existed for more than 20 years, many organizations still fail to achieve full data visibility into their environments. Two problems compound this challenge. First: attack surfaces. As organizations scale their digital infrastructures and bring on new applications, the amount of data analysts need to monitor and analyze increases exponentially.

Welcome to Hardening Graylog, where we will help you encryptify your log supply. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure your Graylog deployment. We will walk you through the steps to configure Graylog with certificates and keys, secure the Graylog web interface, and protect the communication between Graylog and OpenSearch backend. By the end of this blog post, you will have a fully secure and trusted log management system.

As I look at the range of API Management approaches that are recommended by various analysts, pundits, and vendors, I find it interesting that most don’t really know how to address “security” in the context of API management. In high-level API lifecycle management diagrams securing APIs is rarely called out visually, although it may be addressed briefly in an accompanying paragraph.