Last week, we announced v5 of the ThreatQ platform with capabilities needed today to support the security operations center (SOC) of the future. SOCs have been maturing and evolving into detection and response organizations, a transformation that Gartner anticipated back in 2013 and deemed a requirement for this decade. I’m proud that ThreatQuotient has consistently been at the forefront of innovating and delivering what the SOC of the future needs.

Arctic Wolf security awareness program experts—who created security awareness programs for Disney, Sony, as well as our Managed Security Awareness solution—recently produced The Complete Security Awareness Plan and Strategy Guide to help you evaluate and elevate your own security awareness program.

Given the large and growing number of cyber attacks that exploit software vulnerabilities, vulnerability management is critical. A variety of unintended consequences can result from misjudging the severity of an existing vulnerability. Legal battles, financial losses, and reputational damage are all possible outcomes for a business. To combat today's modern cyber security challenges, it's critical to have a vulnerability management program in place.

Hardware security modules (HSM) and trusted platform modules (TPM) seemingly do the same thing: they manage secret keys and enable data protection. But what does “managing secrets” mean, and what’s the difference between the two? Before diving deeper, let’s explore why computers need help with managing their secrets.

According to VMware, the first half of 2020 saw a 238% increase in cyberattacks targeting financial institutions. And according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data breach in the financial sector in 2021 is $5.72 million. Based on these statistics, if you're in the financial services sector, there's a very high chance that you'll eventually fall victim to a very costly cyberattack.

What is the XDR paradox? It’s the hottest term in security but there is no consensus yet on the right definition. Why is that? Many organizations have deployed EDR and are benefiting from it, but also looking to the gaps that EDR can’t address such as unmanaged / compromised devices or network-centric TTPs. Likewise, many vendors of EDR/SIEM products have realized they have the same general workflow (analyze data, present an alert, triage it, etc).

I am excited to share a major milestone for our company: the Lookout Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) has been named a Major Player in the 2021 IDC MarketScape Worldwide Cloud Security Gateways (CSG) Vendor Assessment (Doc # US48334521, November 2021). When Lookout acquired CipherCloud back in March 2021, the two companies came together with a mission to build a platform that provides intelligent Zero Trust access by leveraging in-depth telemetry from endpoint to cloud.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of how businesses operate, remote work being one of the most significant. At the outbreak’s peak, 71% of American workers telecommuted at least part-time, 62% of whom rarely worked remotely before. This shift has impacted many industries, but the legal sector faces more disruption than most. Legal work rarely happened over telecommunication services before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and thanks to digital transformation, data can be shared easily among many users within and across organizations. Organizations store as well as transmit large amounts of sensitive data and information. As more and more data exchange happens, risks and threats also increase. The average cost of a data breach was $ 3.86 million and surprisingly the average time to identify and contain a breach was a staggering 280 days.

The TMF Summit, a clinical documentation management conference hosted by industry observer Fierce Biotech, was held in late October in New Orleans. There was plenty of talk about familiar topics such as data quality and integrity, as well as data submission workflows and monitoring. But what stood out this year was how the pandemic continues to reshape the industry.