I had an interesting experience the other day. I had to renew my driver’s license. In previous renewal cycles, this was no big deal. One could just visit the local Department of Motor Vehicles (with a bagged lunch since it was usually a multi-hour wait), read an eye chart, take a horribly unflattering photo, and be on their way with a new license.

It is likely that at some point in the span of your software engineering career, you will run into an issue that requires poring over audit logs to figure out what went wrong and who did it. This could be to troubleshoot a variety of issues ranging from an unauthorized change that a consultant or vendor made, to bad actors that have gained access to your system.

NIST Special Publication 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (NIST SP 800-53 or NIST 800-53), establishes an information security standard for the federal government. Specifically, NIST 800-53 establishes security controls and privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations excluding those involved with national security.

Digital attacks are a top concern for Industrial Control System (ICS) security professionals. In a survey conducted by Dimensional Research, 88 percent of these personnel told Tripwire that they were concerned about the threat of a digital attack. An even greater percentage (93 percent) attributed their concerns to the possibility of an attack producing a shutdown or downtime.

Hey, there. This is part six of the Elastic SIEM for home and small business blog series. If you haven’t read the first, second, and third blogs, you may want to before going any further. In the Getting started blog, we created our Elasticsearch Service deployment and started collecting data from one of our computers using Winlogbeat. In the Securing cluster access blog, we secured access to our cluster by restricting privileges for users and Beats.

Real time cyber attack maps offer us an insight on the attacks going on around the globe. They sure are eye candies, but do they have any use? Read our article to learn more. Although their extent, kind and intent changes, one thing about cyber attacks remain the same: They never stop. At any given moment, there are hundreds of cyber attacks happening.

Editor’s note: CVE-2020-0601, unsurprisingly, has created a great deal of interest and concern. There is so much going on that we could not adequately provide a full accounting in a single blog post! This post focuses on detection of the vulnerability based on network logs, specifically Zeek as well as Endpoint. If you are collecting vulnerability scan data and need to keep an eye on your inventory of systems that are at risk, then check out Anthony Perez’s blog.