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So, you’ve installed Coralogix’s STA and you would like to start analyzing your traffic and getting valuable insights but you’re not sure that you’re mirroring enough traffic or wondering if you might be mirroring too much data and could be getting more for less. The harsh truth is that in order to be able to detect everything, you have to capture everything and in order to be able to investigate security issues thoroughly, you need to capture every network packet.

“The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” John Connor, Terminator 2 There is a prevailing viewpoint among security professionals that security breaches are inevitable. They have adopted the mantra, “It is not a matter of if but a matter of when.” As recently as the day I wrote this post, I attended a meeting where this attitude was used to justify accepting easy to mitigate security risks.

Cyberattacks are a growing threat, and organizations are investing time and money in security strategies to make certain that their infrastructures are secure. Active Directory (AD) is a constant target for compromise, as it’s at the core of any organization’s security — it handles authentication and authorization for all users in an organization.

Email security refers to various cybersecurity measures to secure the access and content of an email account or service. Proper email security can protect sensitive information in email communications, prevent phishing attacks, spear phishing and email spoofing and protect against unauthorized access, loss or compromise of one or more email addresses.

According to the NIS Directive, Member States should adopt a common set of baseline security requirements to ensure a minimum level of harmonized security measures across EU and enhance the overall level of security of operators providing essential services (OES) and digital service providers (DSP).

Threats against industrial environments are on the rise. Near the beginning of 2019, for example, Kaspersky Lab revealed that 47% of industrial control system (ICS) computers on which its software was installed suffered a malware infection in the past year. That was three percent higher than the previous year.

I was at breakfast the other day with some family friends, and the topic of genealogy came up. Over the past few years, various sites have sprouted up that offer to trace your origins all the way back in time; in some cases, all the way back to the eras of early human development. One of my favorite authors has actually written a book about the results of his test. The idea behind the test is simple.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss the escalating significance of AI and machine learning in IT security space.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24 So far this month we’ve had quite a lot of spectacular breach announcements and the month ends on a big one. With such a large organisation it would leak eventually, no matter how hard they worked to cover it up. What everyone I suppose is now asking is ‘will there be any penalty?’: