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A Day in the Life of a SOC Team

This piece was originally published on Fortra’s AlertLogic.com Blog. Managed detection and response (MDR) would be nothing without a SOC (security operations center). They’re on the frontline of our clients’ defenses — a living, breathing layer of intelligence and protection to complement our automated cybersecurity features. These are the people who make our MDR services best in class so dependable. It’s time you met them.

IAM Legend: How Torq is Reinventing Identity and Access Management

Torq IAM is a critical foundation of modern enterprise IT infrastructures and governance. It’s one of the ways security professionals deliver value to their entire company, customer, and partner ecosystem. It’s also what drives the effective management of organizational roles, assets, and the connections between them. The product team at Torq is focused on changing the IAM game and leveling up our customers’ capabilities.

Building Efficient SecOps Pipelines with AWS Security Lake and Torq

Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources it into a purpose-built data lake stored in a customer’s AWS account. Amazon Security Lake reduces the complexity and costs for customers to make their security solutions data accessible to address a variety of security use cases such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response.

How Torq Remediates the 3CX Supply Chain Attack

By Dallas Young Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Torq According to researchers, the 3CX Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) desktop program for Windows and MacOS, which boasts over 600,000 customers and 12m daily users, has been compromised by a DLL sideloading attack and used in several supply chain attacks. 3CX is a private branch exchange (PBX) system, a private telephone network used within a company or organization.

How Do You Staff a SOC Over the Holidays?

It’s natural for people to let down their guard when hunting for great deals or responding to one-time requests from coworkers trying to plan their vacations. But threat actors don’t take time off, and as recent history has shown from Log4J and Kaseya attacks, attackers are poised to do the most damage when their targets are off celebrating outside the office.

A Practical Guide for Becoming a SOC Analyst

Practical Experience is important in getting cybersecurity work, and a home lab is a great option, but how do you do this for a SOC Analyst or cyber defender lab? Eric Capuano of Recon Infosec spells it out in a blog post. In this video, Dr. Gerald Auger shows you exactly why this Home SOC lab will give you an incredible advantage in learning practical cybersecurity skills.

How Continuous Threat Hunting Addresses Potential Okta Password Exposure Via Failed Login Attempts

Last week, the incident response firm Mitiga published research outlining the potential exposure of Okta passwords of organizational users. The method involves a mistaken entry of one’s password in the username field in an Okta login interface – something that, according to the research, is not an infrequent occurrence.

SOCtails - Unify Security Operations with Splunk Mission Control

Security teams constantly pivot between multiple tools and management consoles in order to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents. It's time-consuming and complex. And it's Kevin's personal nightmare. Jeff shows Kevin how to unify his security operations across detection, investigation and response using Splunk Mission Control.

Unify Your Security Operations with Splunk Mission Control

Splunk Mission Control brings order to the chaos of your security operations by enabling your SOC to detect, investigate and respond to threats from one modern and unified work surface. Watch this 5 minute demo video to learn how Mission Control unifies your security operations experience across Splunk’s industry-leading security technologies and partner ecosystem in one work surface. The demo use case focuses on how an analyst detects, investigates and responds to an encoded PowerShell attack.