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7 Challenges in Scaling SOC Operations and How to Overcome Them

In the past four years, cyberattacks have more than doubled. Cybercriminals are leveraging emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate more sophisticated attacks. Geopolitical tumult has increased cyber risk. Couple these factors with a near-ubiquitous desire for businesses to expand their operations, and it’s easy to understand the need for scaling Security Operations Center (SOC) operations.

Materiality Analysis Offers Risk Managers Data-Driven Loss Thresholds

‍Determining and disclosing impactful events has been a longstanding practice for organizations operating within the US market. As early as 1933, with the Securities Act, publicly traded businesses were required to disclose “material information” regarding their security environment, allowing shareholders to make more informed investment decisions.

Unintentional Insider Threats: The Overlooked Risk

Could your employees be unintentionally putting your business at risk? While companies prioritize protection against external cyber threats, the often-overlooked unintentional insider threats can lead to significant financial and reputational risks for your business. These threats can come from simple human errors, such as accidental data sharing, misconfigurations, or falling victim to phishing attacks.

How Cloudflare accelerates digital modernization efforts

You need to accelerate digital modernization to stay competitive, but complex tech stacks limit your modernization initiatives. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud simplifies management and new tech adoption across networks, web apps, security, and development, making it easier to embrace a wide range of digital services.

Scanning the Matrix: SIEM Best Practices

(A thought from The Matrix: Neo likely used a SIEM before he took the red pill and could see the matrix without one...) One of the best ways to monitor security-related activities for your organization is to collect audit logs from every network device and analyze those logs for activities which violate acceptable behavior. This is precisely the role of a SIEM or Security Information and Event Manager. Let me simplify your life by providing some best practice suggestions for deploying and using a SIEM.

Cloud Unfiltered with Carlos Santana - The World of Kubernetes and Platform Engineering - Episode 17

Welcome to another edition of Cloud Unfiltered! In this episode, your host Michael Chenetz dives deep into the world of Kubernetes and platform engineering with special guest Carlos Santana, a specialist solutions architect at AWS. In this episode, we discuss: Outshift is Cisco’s incubation engine, innovating what's next and new for Cisco products and sharing our expertise on emerging technologies. Discover the latest on cloud native applications, cloud application security, generative AI, quantum networking and security, future-forward tech research, our latest open source projects and more.

Gaining Network Transparency with Asset Discovery and Compliance for IT/OT

I recently came across the "Johari Window Model" and thought this would be a good way to gain inspiration to explain the conundrum faced by many cybersecurity customers. The table below shows us the breakdown of the stages that are applicable not just to IT and OT environments but also to other facets of our daily lives. This model can be applied to asset discovery and Fortra's Security Configuration Management (SCM) system.