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Log Management Strategy for Cybersecurity Maturity

Log management maturity and cybersecurity maturity often mirror one another. In today’s highly connected world, companies need to live with risk. Organizations need to balance the risks they’re willing to accept and compare that to the amount of money they’re willing to spend. Centralized log management is often a way to get the security monitoring that you need. As you mature your log management strategy, you’ll often find that you mature your security posture as well.

CrowdStrike and Google Chrome: Building an Integrated Ecosystem to Secure Your Enterprise Using the Power of Log Management

Organizations today face an onslaught of attacks across devices, identity and cloud workloads. The more security telemetry an organization has to work with, the better threat hunters can contextualize events to find and remediate potential threats. Google recently announced Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, a collection of plug-and-play integrations with industry-leading security solution providers.

Coffee Talk with SURGe: DOJ China Espionage, Drizly Complaint, Text4Shell, U.S. Midterm Elections

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: Mick and Ryan competed in a 60 second charity challenge to share their take on the issue of victim-blaming for phishing attacks. The episode ends with a deep dive on cyber threats ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8.

Splunk Security with the Infosec App

There's so much that can be accomplished with Splunk’s security tools. Today, we are going to focus on all the benefits of the InfoSec App for Splunk. The InfoSec app — which is an entitlement to Splunk customers — is powered by the Splunk platform, and relies on accelerated data models and the Common Information Model (CIM) to provide a consistent and normalized view into the event data that you’ll bring into Splunk.

Dark Crystal RAT Agent Deep Dive

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) analyzed and developed Splunk analytics for this RAT to help defenders identify signs of compromise within their networks. Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are one of the most common tools used by threat actors as a malicious payload to attack targeted hosts and steal information. One example is the Dark Crystal RAT (DCRat) that is capable of remote access, post exploitation and data exfiltration.

New SOC Performance Report: Security Analysts Are Overworked and Under Resourced

The fourth annual Devo SOC Performance ReportTM shows security professionals believe the SOC is significant to their organization’s cybersecurity strategy. As noted in our last blog, 77% of respondents say their SOC is “very important” or “essential” to their organization. But there’s pain behind the scenes as well. The report notes the majority of security professionals are feeling overwhelmed due to too much work and not enough resources.

Maturing Your Security Hygiene

Security hygiene is the process of reviewing your current cybersecurity posture and implementing security controls that mitigate data breach risks. As you mature your security hygiene, you create a centralized log management strategy that defines a path to a more robust posture. As part of this, you need to accommodate for the way threats evolve, including those unique to your specific industry or business.