Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security Automation, Lessons Learned from Top Gun: Maverick

The cybersecurity industry has talked about security automation for years. We’ve grappled with what, when and how to automate. We’ve debated the human vs machine topic. And when we’ve been burned by machines quarantining a system or blocking a port on a firewall in error, we’ve wondered if there’s any place at all for automation. But deep down we know that automation is the future, and the future is here.

Toast's Rebecca Blair: Lessons from building a security operations team from scratch

On this episode of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas speaks with Rebecca Blair, Security Operations Center Manager at Toast, an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for food service and hospitality businesses. After working in various cybersecurity roles over the past decade, Rebecca joined Toast in 2021 as the first employee of its security operations center.

What Are Control Flow Statements?

Control flows are the backbone of automation. Identifying what to do with a set of data – and how – is a key component of high-value automation, but it can also be confusing to wrap your head around at first. What is a conditional? And what does it have to do with a loop? How do you deal with a set of information versus a single data point?

Automating issue tracking in Zendesk using Google and Tines Forms

Google Forms is a useful tool for submitting tickets and generating issue tracking within your organization. Configuring a webhook in Google products isn’t always easy and the data must typically pass through a Google Sheet. In this blog, we’ll show you how to cut out that middle step and automate issue tracking, so that newly submitted cases can be transferred directly from Google Forms to Zendesk.

Top 5 Takeaways from RSAC 2022

It’s been just over a month since cybersecurity conferences returned in a big way with the comeback of RSA Conference after last year’s hiatus. A lot happened between 2020 and 2022 in the world, our lives, and cybersecurity, including the birth of a little no-code security automation start-up named Torq. RSAC 2022 was a great place to catch up on these changes and look forward to emerging trends and security needs.