As we’ve covered before, SIEMs are an expensive tool. The average enterprise-level SIEM deployment costs over £15 million a year, and operating a small, 100 to 1000-seat SIEM will still run up bills of over £10k monthly. SIEMs create spiralling costs that eat security budgets. Without a skilled team operating them, they can also make organisations less secure despite receiving more information about their digital estates. But where do these SIEM costs come from?

Building trust with customers often starts by demonstrating the right security controls. In the digital age, data security is paramount, and adherence to standards like ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 has become a key differentiator in the competitive market landscape.

Organizations looking to protect their sensitive data and assets against cyberattacks may lack the ability to build a cybersecurity strategy without any structured help. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a free, public framework to help any organization mature its IT security posture. Recently, the institute published an updated version of the cybersecurity framework (CSF), NIST CSF 2.0, which contains a number of updates from the previous framework.

The security industry is at a critical juncture. Capturing the state of affairs is a recent report released by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or ISC2.

This past month, we hosted our second annual customer conference, VantaCon, and shipped some major updates to the Vanta platform, including our Improved audit experience, five new integrations (bringing the total number of supported integrations to over 300!), Risk Management dashboard and updates, and more: ‍ ‍ ‍

If you’re a growing start up, chances are you’ll need to demonstrate trust to your customers. To ensure you have strong data protection measures in place and a robust security posture, they’ll often ask to review either your ISO 27001 certification or your SOC 2 report. For a while, you may get by by filling out their lengthy security questionnaires, but eventually you’ll need to get your ISO 27001 or SOC 2, depending on your product, industry, and region.

We are thrilled to announce that Snyk has been acknowledged as a key player in the evolving landscape of application security. The recent release of Snowflake's Next Generation of Cybersecurity Applications report has designated Snyk as an Emerging Segment Leader in Application Security, highlighting our commitment to innovation and excellence in the field.

Software liability is an increasingly important area for every software development company and team. At its core, software liability is about protecting users from damages caused by software issues. As more software is in use than ever before, there’s a lot of ways that software — and its manufacturers — could be held responsible for certain actions or inactions. Indeed, even the rise of cyber insecurity globally could fall into this murky area.

There’s no single perfect, one-size-fits-all SOC model. Leaders are still unsure whether to bring the SOC in-house, get it outsourced, or do a mix of these two approaches (the so-called hybrid SOC). How do you choose? Investing now in the right model (with adaptability and portability as key considerations) might not be glamorous, but it will set you up for success in the future.

Today, data privacy is the new strategic priority for many companies. Prioritizing data privacy boils down to two key drivers: Indeed, the awareness piece has grown significantly, both leading to and because of stringent data privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA, the California Consumer Privacy Act. (First time on Splunk.com? You might see a pop-up banner specifically for you to opt in or out.) So, let’s take a look at the concept of data privacy and what’s behind it.