Splunk recently sponsored the annual SANS 2022 SOC Survey.

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) continues to monitor new relevant payloads to the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe. One of these new payloads was found by the Ukranian CERT named “Industroyer2.” The name of this new payload references the original "Industroyer" malicious payload used against the country of Ukraine's power grid in 2016 and allegedly was able to affect a fifth of the power capacity of the city of Kyiv.

For application security, the shift left strategy is something that every enterprise is embracing today, which essentially means putting the security controls in earlier stages of development. This is more like a “nipping the problem in the bud” strategy where the security controls in their respective domains highlight the potential security weaknesses related to vulnerabilities in code, vulnerabilities in third-party packages and code quality issues.

In a recent report by the incident response giant Mandiant, which was purchased by Google in March, their researchers found that 2021 was a record year for the total number of 0-day vulnerabilities disclosed and exploited. According to their findings, their team identified some 80 0-days exploited in the wild. At the same time, Google Project Zero researchers reported the detection and disclosure of 58 0-days.

The world is becoming more digital with each passing day. Many companies are trying to transition to an online or to a hybrid system, where they can offer flexibility and autonomy to employees and have a more efficient way of managing their day-to-day operations. The digital transformation to the online world requires businesses to invest in cloud computing and cloud security software.

If you’re looking for a reason to make protecting legacy systems a priority for your healthcare organization, we’ve got 9.23 million for you. That’s the total number of US dollars lost by the healthcare sector to data breaches alone in 2021– and that number is increasing year on year. In fact, the healthcare sector has been the target of the costliest data breaches of all sectors – including financial, technology, and services – for 11 years.

Are you looking about getting a penetration test done, but you're not sure what kind of test to get. If you are an IT consulting company, you must have heard about black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing. The following are some of the most common questions asked when it comes to selecting the type of testing: Consider the advantages and disadvantages of black box, grey box, and white box testing.

The need for rapid business transformation has never been greater. Every industry is adopting digital transformation at a rapid speed. But this rapid transformation has also increased the number of data loads and applications, and cyber-attacks have become common. It has become imperative for organizations to ensure their prevention, detection, and alerting capabilities are functional. Data security approaches are fundamental to digital transformation to make sure that data protection is not breached.

QR (quick response) codes were first created in 1994 by an auto company in Japan, Denso Wave. Visually? They look like they were designed by the first inventors of video game graphics. These days you can find them on everything from menus to billboards. Basically, the goal of the QR code is to link an object to a website containing all the information you’d need for that object.