In a recent webinar on SOAR’s evolving role in security and beyond, I chatted with Andrew Green, Networking & Security Research Analyst at GigaOm. We kicked things off with a brief discussion on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ITSM report, which described the SOAR category as “obsolete” and prompted some commenters to declare that SOAR is “dead”.

Transparency in security practices is essential for building trust in today’s interconnected digital world. Organizations that openly share certifications, audit reports, and policies demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding data and adhering to standards. This openness fosters stronger partnerships and sets a benchmark for accountability.

Even before packets start flowing, enterprise networks are complex, data-intensive repositories of topology, configuration, and state information. This information is often required to solve operational issues—like finding sources of unwanted traffic drops or protocol configuration errors—or to find problems before they become issues. Yet, this valuable information typically goes untapped because getting at it requires too much work.

73% of educational institutions in the UK have sustained at least one cyberattack or breach in the past five years, according to researchers at ESET. Additionally, a fifth of these organizations said they’ve experienced three or more cyberattacks. 43% of the organizations surveyed cited phishing attacks as their top concern.

There was some good, bad, and neutral news when it comes to email threats in December 2024, according to new data compiled by Trustwave SpiderLabs’ MailMarshal email security team. Trustwave SpiderLabs’ PageML, which is used in MailMarshal’s Blended Threat Module (BTM), flagged 19 million malicious URLs for VirusTotal, of which 2.2 million detections were only picked up by Trustwave. The team reported that 25% of all incoming spam emails were in fact phishing attacks of some type.

Drivers across the U.S. are being bombarded with fraudulent text messages claiming to come from toll operators like E-ZPass. These messages threaten fines for unpaid toll fees and aim to steal personal and financial information. Security experts warn that these scams are becoming more sophisticated, driven by new phishing tools developed and sold in China.

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Spark, an AI Test Agent that lowers the entry barrier to white-box fuzz testing. In this blog, we explain how Spark works and share the main results from its beta testing that prove its effectiveness.

14 years in prison and a $200,000 fine. That’s what it cost a Michigan chemist caught stealing trade secrets from Coca-Cola and Eastman Chemical Company. And no, she wasn’t an outsider—she was a trusted Principal Engineer with legitimate access to these technologies worth $120 million in development costs . Every year, companies fall victim and lose billions to corporate espionage attacks, with many attacks going undetected for months or even years.

The threat landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate, with organisations facing increasingly complex and malicious cyber threats. As cyber-attacks grow in frequency and sophistication, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a critical focus for many organisations striving to counter these rising challenges effectively.

We are grateful and honored to share that 11:11 Systems has been recognized by Cloud Computing Magazine with the 2024 Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award for the fourth year in a row. This recognition reflects not only the innovation and reliability of our services but, more importantly, the trust and partnership we share with our customers.