TeamViewer is a great utility for remotely helping your relatives or for IT people servicing small businesses. But using it in large organizations, and especially for critical infrastructure, is rather risky, as shown in a recent attempt to poison the water of a city in Florida.

Audit logs are that thing that everyone has a good grasp about in theory, but is hard to define in practice. We have previously covered what is an audit log in IT context and now we’ll focus on why it’s important for security.

GDPR enforcement (and therefore fines) has been on the rise recently. And after the initial “compliance on paper” that many consultants offered, it’s time to address the cybersecurity aspects underlying GDPR. We have previously addressed the logging requirements of GDPR and now we are going to review the “why” in addition to the “what”.

Why is SIEM Important for Regulatory Compliance? A security information and event management (SIEM) system can improve the security of your business’ computer network with real-time automation, monitoring, logging and event alerts. By leveraging SIEM Software, your security team is able to track events concerning your company’s information security, such as potential data breaches, helping you to react in a timely manner.

In today’s dynamic world, the fifth generation of global wireless technology (or as we know it, 5G) is driving innovation in the financial sector, and the global pandemic is changing everyone’s lifestyle and payment habits, online payments become more and more important. Against this backdrop, the most dominant tendencies are mobile and online banking, as well as investment banking.

Security information and event management (SIEM) has been “reserved” for large enterprises for a long time and therefore vendors largely ignored smaller customers. “Smaller customers” are medium enterprises and mid-market companies, according to various definitions and brackets, and they range from a hundred to more than a thousand employees. But the problem that SIEM solves are problems that these SME/mid-market organizations have as well.

Cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a topic for legislators, especially for the public sector, critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, the financial and insurance sectors. In the US, in addition to several federal laws (HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, SOX, FISMA, CISA), there are many state-level laws that impose some level of cybersecurity requirement (we have excluded the ones regarding election security in particular, as that’s a separate topic of discussion)

Threat intelligence has been a very important asset to cybersecurity- knowing in advance some properties of malicious actors is key for preventing security incidents. Most typically these properties are IP addresses, domains, emails and file hashes, and being able to compare them to what’s happening in your infrastructure allows for quick response and prevention.

LogSentinel’s vision is to provide a security monitoring solution to any organization that needs it and thus reduce their risk of security breaches. That vision requires many innovations and here we’re sharing our high-level roadmap for the next 2 years. Each part of LogSentinel SIEM roadmap is accompanied with a detailed list of stories in our backlog so that can be easily brought to market.

Security breaches are becoming increasingly commonplace and dangerous. The World Economic Forum nominated cyber-attacks as one of the major threats to global stability for 2019. Not only money is at stake, as breaches have an appalling effect on organizations’ reputation, trustworthiness, and often prove to a business killer. Most important, however, is the data – our personal data that once stolen is available to cybercriminals to exploit.