Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

DevOps teams and developers can now bring the power of automated secrets detection and remediation to their Azure DevOps repositories.

Whether your organization is ready to deploy its first security information and event management (SIEM) solution or you’re looking to upgrade to a modern, next-gen SIEM, the number and types of tools available in the market can be overwhelming. This post will help you choose the right vendor and best SIEM tools for your business needs. SIEM tools have been available for about 15 years, but like most technologies, there has been a great deal of evolution and innovation over that time.

Cybersecurity today seems like an arms race: Enterprises implement more and more security tools to try defend their networks against increasingly frequent and sophisticated attacks. But simply increasing the number of tools in your arsenal is not an effective cybersecurity strategy.

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In this latest blog post we are going to show you how to best set up Nightfall to discover and protect HIPAA data stored across your organization, maintaining patient privacy and helping avoid regulator fines.

Penetration testing is a vital part of cybersecurity strategy development, evaluating the strength of an organization’s infrastructure. To prevent attackers from exploiting security flaws in your software or networks, you want to discover them as soon as possible. Penetration testing is becoming increasingly common because it anticipates attacks instead of waiting for them to happen, allowing people to be more proactive in their security initiatives.

With an understanding of what open source licenses are and their benefits, it’s also useful to know what are the main categories of these licenses, the different types, and their requirements. It’s quite an array, which can be overwhelming, but with this knowledge, you can make more informed choices about what software and what licenses are right for your purposes.

Organizations in the UAE have been able to deliver innovative services and stimulate economic development through the increasing adoption of Information Technology (IT), electronic communications, and cyberspace, which is a global network of interconnected telecommunications networks, information technology infrastructures, and computer processing systems. As these technologies develop, the UAE's dependence on them will increase.

Matt Lawrence, Head of Defensive Security, and Dan Green, Head of Solutions, write about why compromise is inevitable – and the practical steps that organisations can take to build a security operating model capable of weathering the storm of cyber threats today.

In the first two blogs in this series, we discussed properly setting up IAM and avoiding direct internet access to AWS resources. In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest.