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What Is PCI DSS Compliance? the Essential Guide

Aug 8, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're reviewing payment flows, the bank has asked for proof, and the audit deadline suddenly feels real. The problem isn't usually that the team has done nothing, it's that nobody has turned day-to-day security work into evidence a card brand, acquirer, or assessor can use. PCI DSS compliance is where that gap gets exposed, and it's why security teams that already run SIEM, XDR, or EDR still get pulled into a separate compliance scramble.
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Windows Event Log Analysis: A Practical Guide

Aug 7, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
If you're staring at a flood of Windows telemetry at 2 AM, the problem usually isn't that the logs are useless. The problem is that nobody turned them into a workflow. Raw Security, System, PowerShell, and Defender events can tell you exactly what happened, but only if collection, parsing, triage, and reporting are handled like part of the same control, not four separate chores.
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Access Control Models Explained for Modern Security Teams

Aug 6, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Most guides tell security teams to pick an access control model and move on. That advice breaks down in real environments, because the hard part isn't naming the model, it's keeping least privilege, auditability, and enforcement aligned as identities, attributes, and relationships keep changing across SaaS, cloud, endpoints, and network gear. In practice, the winners are the teams that treat access control as an operating discipline, not a diagram in an architecture deck.
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Navigating cybersecurity in the airline industry: Balancing legacy systems and innovation

Aug 6, 2026 By Tamara Bailey In Sumo Logic
Commercial airlines run some of the world’s most complex technology environments. Every day, they balance decades-old aircraft systems with modern cloud platforms, connected devices, global payment networks, and strict regulatory requirements, all while ensuring flights depart safely and on time. For security teams, that means protecting an enormous attack surface without disrupting operations.
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The New CISO Ep. 149 - Ravi Soin | Don't Be a Risk Manager. Be a Trust Architect.

Aug 6, 2026 By Exabeam In Exabeam
Ravi Soin has clear advice for anyone starting a security career today: don't be a risk manager, be a trust architect. In this episode, Steve Moore sits down with Ravi—CIO and CISO at Smartsheet—for a builder's-eye conversation on the modern CISO role, AI as an accelerant on old sins, and why the CISO who still says “no” is already obsolete.
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Best Log Management Tools for 2026 Security

Aug 5, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Enterprises are already spending an average of nearly US$2.5 million annually on logging solutions, and those tools consume 45% of observability budgets while teams juggle an average of seven different tools to manage logs and telemetry (enterprise logging spend and tool sprawl). That's the reason log management tools have moved from back-office utilities into security architecture decisions.
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How Behavioral Analytics Closes the Insider Threat Dwell Time Gap

Aug 5, 2026 By Exabeam In Exabeam
Insider threats often remain hidden during early activity because individual actions appear normal in isolation. Behavioral analytics closes the dwell time gap by establishing baselines for normal behavior, evaluating activity over time, and identifying meaningful deviations before attackers trigger traditional detections.
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PowerShell Execute .Exe: Safe Guide for 2026

Aug 4, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're staring at a deployment script, the vendor wants a clean setup.exe launch, and half the fleet needs the same binary with the same arguments. At the same time, your SIEM is already full of PowerShell activity that looks harmless until it isn't, because the exact same process-launch primitive is one of the most common ways attackers move from code execution to real impact. That's why PowerShell execute.exe isn't just a scripting question, it's an operational and detection question.
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Behavior Intelligence for the Agentic Enterprise

Aug 3, 2026 By Exabeam In Exabeam
The rise of AI agents is transforming the enterprise — and redefining insider risk. As organizations deploy AI agents alongside human employees, understanding behavior has become essential to detecting threats that traditional security approaches miss. Exabeam secures both human and AI agents with Behavior Intelligence, combining behavioral analytics and agent-powered security operations to reduce risk, accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response, and help organizations confidently secure the agentic enterprise.
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Next Gen SIEM: Modern Security Ops Guide

Aug 3, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Monday starts the same way in too many SOCs. The queue is already full, the overnight team has left behind a stack of alerts nobody had time to finish, and the first hour goes to deciding which notifications are real and which ones are just noise. That's the point where next gen SIEM stops being a product category and becomes an operational decision, because the wrong platform turns your analysts into log clerks while the right one helps them work threats in real time.
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