Organizations have started considering cybersecurity as a top priority lately. The amount of money invested in IT infrastructure is increasing at an exponential rate. Further, dedicated teams are formed to monitor and optimize the performance of the different solutions that each organization has in its environment. Similarly, when it comes to cybersecurity, it’s become essential to evaluate and quantify the security posture of every organization.

For decades, the cybersecurity industry has been shrouded in secrecy. This is partly because of the misunderstanding that cybersecurity often relies on obscurity as its primary form of defense. As the thinking goes, if adversaries don’t know about or understand the security controls that security vendors have in place, it will be easier to defend against cyberattacks.

The world of enterprise cybersecurity is exceedingly dynamic. In a landscape that is ever-changing, security professionals need to combat a class of evolving threat actors by deploying increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques. Today with enterprises operating in an environment that is more challenging than ever, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms play an indispensable role.

Threat detection is a key practice to information security. Identifying threats and detecting them on time helps to ensure enterprise security. If a threat is detected, then mitigation efforts must be enacted to properly neutralize the threat before it can exploit any vulnerabilities. Some of the most common threat detection processes are implemented through Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions and Security Information and Event Management

No single organization is prepared to stop an attack from a nation-state Not so long ago, I woke up every morning focused on one thing: finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. During my 10 years working for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), my single objective was to identify and exploit networks to collect foreign intelligence. I was fortunate to work alongside the world’s best professional vulnerability and exploit developers. My time serving my government was formative and humbling.

Everything that makes employees’ lives easier, makes yours harder. Detecting insider threats — both employees and cybercriminals pretending to be employees — has never been more difficult or more important. The cloud technologies that make everyone else more efficient make security less efficient. They’re noisy. They send a lot of alerts. You’re tired. You’re overworked. You’re overloaded.

In 2005, a new market emerged when Gartner coined the term "SIEM" OR Security and Information Event Management. Back then, it was a legacy system aggregating event data produced by security devices, systems, network infrastructures and applications. However, it lacked monitoring functionality and was limited to vertical scalability.

Insights from the 2022 Results That Matter study “88% of boards regard cybersecurity as a business risk rather than solely a technical IT problem.”1 Regardless of geography, industry, sector, or use cases, most would agree that reducing risk is a top priority for their organization. Whether it’s decreasing phishing scams, ransomware, and malware attacks or reducing the risk of customer churn due to breaches, security is everyone’s concern.

For many people, cybersecurity is merely a necessary business function. But that’s not how our customers see it. For you, cybersecurity is an ever-escalating arms race involving sophisticated operators and uncounted moving parts where a single mistake can cause an avalanche of problems. Cybersecurity isn’t just your job, it’s your life. You are on the front lines, responsible for protecting your organization in a high-pressure environment every day.

At this year’s InfoSec conference hosted by Computer 2000, LogSentinel presented – “The power of XDR-stay ahead of the curve” Asen Kehayov CEO and Nikolay Raychev CTO presented in depth the XDR trend in cybersecurity and how LogSentinel SIEM accommodates conceptual architecture and improves the industry vision of XDR.