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Any company that processes payments knows the pain of an audit under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Although the original PCI DSS had gone through various updates, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) took feedback from the global payments industry to address evolving security needs.

For Star Trek fans, space may be the final frontier, but in security, discovering Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) could be the technology equivalent. In the iconic episode “The Trouble with Tribbles,” the legendary starship Enterprise discovers a space station that becomes overwhelmed by little fluffy, purring, rapidly reproducing creatures called “tribbles.” In a modern IT department, APIs can be viewed as the digital tribble overwhelming security teams.

As cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure continue to evolve, the energy sector remains a prime target for malicious actors. Protecting the electric grid requires a strong regulatory framework and robust cybersecurity monitoring practices. In the United States, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) play key roles in safeguarding the power system against cyber risks.

Managing configurations in a complex environment can be like playing a game of digital Jenga. Turning off one port to protect an application can undermine the service of a connected device. Writing an overly conservative firewall configuration can prevent remote workforce members from accessing an application that’s critical to getting their work done.

In cybersecurity as in sports, teamwork makes the dream work. In a world where security analysts can feel constantly bombarded by threat actors, banding together to share information and strategies is increasingly important. Over the last few years, security operations center (SOC) analysts started sharing open source Sigma rules to create and share detections that help them level the playing field.

A structured approach to incident response enables you to create consistently repeatable processes. Your incident response playbook defines responsibilities and guides your security team through a list of activities to reduce uncertainty if or when an incident occurs. MITRE ATT&CK Framework outlines the tactics and techniques that threat actors use during different stages of an attack.

Researchers at AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) recently published a report on the Andariel threat group, a DPRK state-sponsored APT active for over a decade, that has been leveraging RID hijacking and user account concealment techniques in its operations to stealthily maintain privileged access to compromised Windows systems.

After a long day, you sit down on the couch to watch your favorite episode of I Love Lucy on your chosen streaming platform. You decide on the episode where Lucy can’t keep up with the chocolates on the conveyor belt at the factory where she works. Without realizing it, you’re actually watching an explanation of how the streaming platform – and your security analytics tool – work. Data streaming is the real-time processing and delivery of data.