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November 2021

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The Growing Cybersecurity Risks to Retail Organizations

Nov 24, 2021 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
November and December can be particularly stressful for retail organizations—and not just because of the holiday madness. As the volume of transactions ramps up during the holiday season, IT teams must be on high alert for threats buried in a sea of routine activity. But given the exponential growth of ecommerce, they also need to stave off cyber threats.
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Validating Arctic Wolf's Incredible Voyage

Nov 22, 2021 By Nick Schneider In Arctic Wolf
One of my favorite books is “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage” by Alfred Lansing. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t. Here is a brief synopsis of the true-to-life story: In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded his ship, the Endurance, and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot.
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Cyber Insurance: New Coverage Restrictions Expected in 2022

Nov 19, 2021 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
Get ready for upcoming changes to cyber insurance policies. Due to risk associated with the increase in remote work, insurers are more likely to initiate in-depth cybersecurity risk analyses of companies seeking to purchase or renew policies, the Wall Street Journal reports. The adoption of stringent privacy regulations in the United States and abroad could also justify additional scrutiny by insurance companies during the initial underwriting and renewal process.
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How Arctic Wolf Improves Security for Financial Institutions

Nov 18, 2021 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
While data breaches are never good news for any business, they can be especially catastrophic in the financial industry. The sheer amount of sensitive personal data that moves through the average banking institution on a normal day creates a seductive target for cybercriminals and a potential nightmare for security administrators. As a result, finding the right cybersecurity solution that can be tailored to the needs of financial institutions a must.
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Introducing The Complete Security Awareness Plan and Strategy Guide

Nov 16, 2021 By Nathan Caldwell In Arctic Wolf
Arctic Wolf security awareness program experts—who created security awareness programs for Disney, Sony, as well as our Managed Security Awareness solution—recently produced The Complete Security Awareness Plan and Strategy Guide to help you evaluate and elevate your own security awareness program.
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The Top Cyber Attacks of October 2021

Nov 11, 2021 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
October marked a dubious milestone for cybersecurity. A report from the Identity Theft Research Center confirmed that the number of cyber attacks reported through the first nine months of the year exceeded the total recorded for the entirety of 2020. And not by a small margin either—attacks are up 17% in 2021 compared to last year. Clearly, hackers have been busy, as have the cybersecurity experts tasked with mitigating the damage.
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Arctic Wolf Continues on Explosive Growth Trajectory

Nov 10, 2021 By Nick Schneider In Arctic Wolf
This week marks our mid-year kick-off. It’s our all-company meeting that, like Arctic Wolf, gets bigger each year with hundreds of new team members joining us from around the world—many for the first time. With so much new hiring (we’re on pace to nearly double ourselves, again), I’m continually reminded of our Wolf Pack’s talent, dedication, and drive for success, and I’m proud to work alongside these professionals daily.
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Understanding The 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services

Nov 9, 2021 By Brian Burke In Arctic Wolf
We believe, a Market Guide defines a market and explains what clients can expect it to do in the short term. With the focus on early, more chaotic markets, a Market Guide does not rate or position vendors within the market, but rather more commonly outlines attributes of representative vendors that are providing offerings in the market to give further insight into the market itself. We feel the Gartner Market Guide helps organizations learn about the below.
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XDR: Demystifying the Hottest Cybersecurity Buzzword

Nov 8, 2021 By Ian McShane In Arctic Wolf
Extended detection and response (XDR) has transpired into a market description that, in my not so humble opinion, proves to be as troublesome as the phrases “next gen” or “machine learning” were from 2016 to 2020. I’ll quote myself from a popular blog post from my time at Gartner: Naming aside, the one thing that all InfoSec commentators agree on is that XDR is an evolution of the endpoint-centric approach pioneered by legacy security vendors.
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Arctic Wolf Cloud Detection and Response

Nov 8, 2021 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
The cloud has changed the way we work. Accelerate your cloud transformation and have confidence your business is secure–with Arctic Wolf Cloud Detection and Response. Built atop the cloud-native Arctic Wolf platform, Cloud Detection and Response allows you to experience an effective way to secure activity across both infrastructure as a service platforms–like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and applications–such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Box, and Workday.
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Five Pillars of a Powerful Security Awareness Program

Nov 2, 2021 By Nathan Caldwell In Arctic Wolf
It seems that we might be getting to the tipping point in the corporate world where most organizations and businesses recognize they’re exposed to an increasing amount of cybersecurity risk. And with bad guys devoting a large portion of their strategy to targeting employees, the need for effectively training employees is intensifying. But before you begin to evaluate or build a program you need to first define and cement what it is you are looking to accomplish with your program.
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XDR marketing is fueling the cybersecurity problem for businesses

Nov 1, 2021 By Ian McShane, Field CTO In Arctic Wolf
If there is one positive we can take from the last sixteen months, it is businesses embracing a more flexible working culture for their employees. Fundamental changes to the traditional nine-to-five working day means that many companies, in part, have already successfully transformed some of their operations to meet the demands of a new hybrid working world that is now very much the norm.
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Converging Platforms: How Do XDR, SIEM, and SOAR Compare?

Nov 1, 2021 By Arctic Wolf
Security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), and the newer extended detection and response (XDR) solutions have become the top choices for organizations wanting a unified view of activity within their IT environments. By combining relevant data into single consoles, XDR, SIEM and SOAR technologies minimize the time analysts spend moving between platforms and make it easier to correlate the data and develop subsequent steps appropriately.
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Security Operations for Financial Institutions

Nov 1, 2021 By Arctic Wolf
Financial institutions, particularly regional banks and credit unions, are facing challenges both in terms of safeguarding data of their customers and meeting data security compliance standards. Information technology (IT) teams in these institutions are stretched thin. They struggle with needing to meet compliance obligations while simultaneously combatting cyberthreats.
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