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What is Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ)?

The threat landscape is expanding and security professionals are barely keeping up. On a daily basis, CISOs and cybersecurity staff need to contend with new malware variants, data breach attempts, ransomware attacks, zero-day exploits - all while ensuring uninterrupted dedication to vendor risk mitigation efforts. With so many cyber threats testing your cyber resilience at once, where should you focus your cybersecurity efforts?

Bringing home the beacon (from Cobalt Strike)

Elastic Security engineers have documented a less tedious way to find network beaconing from Cobalt Strike. In their full analysis (), Elastic Security team researchers Andrew Pease, Derek Ditch, and Daniel Stepanic walk users through the Elastic fleet policy, how to collect the beacon, beacon configuration, how to analyze its activity, and how you can set it up in your organization’s environment.

As "left" as it can get - find Kubernetes security issues while coding, not after

Kubescape is now available on the Visual Studio extension marketplace. Visual Studio code extensions are add-ons that allow developers to customize and enhance their experience in Visual Studio by adding new features or integrating 3rd party tools. An extension can range in all levels of complexity, but its main purpose is to increase developers’ productivity and cater to their workflow.

You Didn't Ask? Well, the SOC Evolution Answered Anyway

Let me begin by stating the obvious: The cyberattack surface is growing exponentially and diversely. Essentially, it’s a bigger shark and we’ve got the same small boat. The environments, platforms, services, regions and time zones that constitute modern enterprise operations and drive digital transformation for business continue to require increasing specialization and expertise beyond current in-house capabilities.

Netacea's approach to machine learning: unsupervised and supervised models

Our world is driven by technological innovation. Recent years have seen many companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology to analyze larger data sets and perform more complex tasks with faster and more accurate results. This is not limited to technology-based industries such as computer science – now, many industries work continuously to enhance their technology to keep up with consumer expectations, with data-based decision making often central to this drive.

Threat intelligence outlook 2022: what we can learn from the past year

In this blog post, we discuss the key security issues of the last year and explore what this could mean for 2022. With the continuous exploitation of vulnerabilities which took place in 2021 likely to continue in 2022 and beyond, organisations can benefit from conducting tabletop exercises using some of the scenarios presented below.

Insider Threat Indicators and Detection: When Employees Turn Ransomware Accomplices

Late December 2021: A company coming off a record year for revenue growth was preparing to ramp down for a week to celebrate the December holidays. However, unbeknownst to the company, just a few days prior, one of its longest-serving employees had been recruited by a ransomware group. The employee had responded to a posting on a computer hacking forum asking for access to corporate networks in return for cash payouts.

Harnessing AIOps to Improve System Security

You’ve probably seen the term AIOps appear as the subject of an article or talk recently, and there’s a reason. AIOps is merging DevOps principles with Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning. It provides visibility into performance and system data on a massive scale, automating IT operations through multi-layered platforms while delivering real-time analytics.

Application Security 101 - HTTP headers

This article is the first in a series that will discuss some of the most common issues with HTTP security headers, which are often relatively easy to implement and can have a significant impact on the overall security posture of your application. We’ve previously talked about the proactive and reactive styles of application development and security testing. In this article, we discuss HTTP headers which are a common misconfiguration.