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Scanning the Matrix: SIEM Best Practices

(A thought from The Matrix: Neo likely used a SIEM before he took the red pill and could see the matrix without one...) One of the best ways to monitor security-related activities for your organization is to collect audit logs from every network device and analyze those logs for activities which violate acceptable behavior. This is precisely the role of a SIEM or Security Information and Event Manager. Let me simplify your life by providing some best practice suggestions for deploying and using a SIEM.

IoT Security Regulations: A Compliance Checklist - Part 1

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the global network of physical devices connected to the internet, capable of collecting and sharing data. IoT devices range from everyday household items to sophisticated industrial tools. By integrating sensors and communication hardware, IoT bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, enabling environments where smart devices operate interconnectedly and autonomously.

What is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and How does a CDN Work?

In this video, we explain what a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is and how it works to improve your website’s performance. If you've ever experienced a slow website, you know how frustrating it can be for both you and your visitors. A slow website can lead to losing customers and lower rankings on search result pages. That's where a CDN comes in. A CDN improves your website's loading times by serving content from the server closest to your visitors. By caching content at various data centers, a CDN reduces the distance data must travel, leading to faster load times and lower bandwidth costs.

Fundamentals of Origin Server Protection

Servers host applications and services; therefore, they are the center of all web, mobile, and API applications. These origin servers are under constant attack as hackers run probes to exploit open vulnerabilities and launch large-scale DDoS attacks that could bring down the entire infrastructure. Therefore, ensuring availability and protecting the integrity of origin servers is paramount. This article will cover what, why, and how of origin protection.

What's New With Lookout: Simplifying SSE

Organizations continue to endure the challenges that come along with the rapid migration to the cloud, like securing and managing data that is now spread across multiple networks, clouds, and apps. Outdated technologies have led to disjointed, hard-to-manage solutions that struggle to keep up with evolving security threats. But fear not! Lookout is here to help.

Understanding Vulnerability Prioritization, Management & Remediation

What are your most important corporate assets? Like most companies, you probably have mission-critical assets and those that play a smaller role in your revenue and continuity. You are also likely to be using Vulnerability Management or Assessment tools to lock down where those assets can potentially be compromised. Vulnerability Prioritization combines asset importance and potential for risk.

How Can CISOs Elevate Their Contribution Within the C-suite?

Businesses manage a series of balancing acts every day—between innovation and reliability, for instance, investment or profit, speed or security. Each leader contributes to how decisions are weighed and made, and traditionally CISOs have been expected to operate at one end of that scale, as the chief protector of the business.