As we approach the end of the federal government fiscal year, it's a good time to review the legislative and policy landscape. Several updates and changes have recently arrived or are already in motion regarding cloud security and data resilience.

One of the most challenging aspects of running an effective Security Operations Center is how to account for the high volume of notable events that ultimately do not present a risk to the business. Some examples of non-risky notable events include a user forgetting their password and submitting it erroneously multiple times in a row, or a user accessing a system (for a completely valid reason) at an odd hour outside of their normal behavior.

Ensuring application security is not just about protecting data. It’s about safeguarding your company's reputation, keeping customer trust, and adhering to increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. Read on as we delve into application security requirements: the pressing security threats impacting applications, the critical security requirements your application needs to meet, and the best practices to adopt to achieve robust application security.

SOC analysts are overwhelmed with alerts and manual repetitive tasks that negatively impact their ability to conduct and prioritize investigations of critical events. They don’t have the time, or bandwidth, to sift through data feeds or sources to identify and synthesize intelligence related to an incident.

Financial crime risk management (FCRM) is the practice of proactively looking for financial crime, including investigating and analyzing suspicious activity, rooting out vulnerabilities and taking steps to lower an organization’s risk of becoming a victim. For organizations in every industry across the globe, an effective FCRM strategy has never been more important.

Today, we are going to look at using the Splunk Stream App to hunt for threats across your network. Sing along with us! 🎼 “Islands in the stream” of our data… (Part of our Threat Hunting with Splunk series, this article was originally written by John Stoner. We’ve updated it recently to maximize your value.)

It comes as no surprise that analysts spend a lot of their time investigating and responding to a continuous flood of incidents on a daily basis. While the sheer volume of alerts alone make for a time consuming endeavor, trying to manually tackle so many of these alerts results in slow incident response and can trap your team into a series of reactive security operations.

Multi-cloud environments are getting plenty of buzz in recent years. It’s no wonder, really, that increased flexibility, risk mitigation, performance optimization and compliance adherence associated with the practice have drawn in new muli-cloud evangelists across the industry. For all the great benefits multi-cloud offers, it does present one significant challenge: how do you ensure a single point of control while establishing consistent security policies for all users?