This post is the first of a multi-part blog series on various sources of telemetry. At LimaCharlie, we’re a firm believer in visibility. The more an analyst can see about their environment, the more impactful decisions they can make. We are huge fans of multi-source telemetry, bringing visibility from almost anywhere in your environment to one place for analysis, detection, and response capabilities.

The healthcare industry is transforming patient care through software, from 24/7 digital patient portals, to AI-fueled medical research, and everything in between. As innovation reaches new heights, how does healthcare stack up against other sectors in terms of software security flaws and the ability to remediate them?

Digital transformation is no longer the exclusive domain of forward-thinking companies on the leading edge of technological advancement. It has become a cost of entry into competitive business. Digital transformation was already accelerating into the mainstream prior to the pandemic, but the jarring shift to remote and hybrid work put fuel in the proverbial jetpacks.

In a world where more and more communities and businesses are based on instant messaging applications, it is just a matter of time before instant messaging takes the spotlight away from the traditional social media and commerce platforms. Instant messaging applications are more convenient than conventional forums and social media groups. However, the instant messaging realm is also divided into different application types and purposes.

Ending a business relationship with an employee can be daunting, especially if things end on bad terms. Offboarding is critical to ensure that any disgruntled former employees do not expose company information. There have been cases in the past where former employees are the cause of massive data breaches. Some data breaches are intentional, like when a former CIA employee was convicted for carrying out the largest data leak in the agency’s history.

Signed into law in March of 2022, the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act (SACA) gives federal authorities an overview of all cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the United States for the very first time. SACA has three parts: SACA comes at a time when governments are facing a significant paradigm shift.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu. The above quote by Sun Tzu summarizes cyber threat intelligence (CTI) perfectly.

Trustwave, a leading provider of Managed Security Services, has been named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® 2022 Market Guide for Managed SIEM Services. In the report, Gartner analysts Al Price, John Collins, Andrew Davies, Mitchell Schneider, and Angel Berrios provide an updated definition of Managed SIEM Services along with how Managed SIEM, which is also known as a managed SoC or SoC as a service.

People have become the primary attack vector for cyber attackers around the world. As the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2022 indicates, it is humans rather than technology that now represent the greatest risk to organizations. According to the SANS 2022 Security Awareness Report, the top three security risks that security professionals are concerned about are phishing, business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware, all closely related to human behavior.

While modern businesses depend on data to stay ahead of the competition, data alone isn’t enough. They also need efficient search engines to quickly index and search through millions of records to make sense of the data. Today we’re looking into SOLR and Elasticsearch, the two heavyweights in this domain, to compare their performance differences and use cases.