In a prior blog post, we explained how to install or update Artifactory through the Azure Marketplace in the amount of time it takes for your coffee order to arrive on the counter. Now you can add to your self-managed (BYOL) Artifactory deployment Xray, the cream of software component analysis (SCA) tools, through the Azure Marketplace as well.
As if organizations are not under enough pressure from ransomware purveyors, Check Point estimates that ransomware attacks have roughly doubled in the United States over the past three months, due in part to the shift to remote working which has increased phishing opportunities and exposed new gaps in corporate IT infrastructure. And the situation has become even more distressing with the U.S. government now threatening fines to victims who pay the cyber extortionists’ demands.
A fully grown security operations center (SOC) was, until recently, a luxury, affordable for the largest organizations only, but even in global players, budget constraints are real. Unfortunately, the willingness to raise money for security seems to require an incident first. However, we often forget there’s no need for a dedicated war room, and it doesn’t always require a full team. Centralized security can be outsourced.
In a series of blogs, we cover why a modern SIEM and SOC are essential in fighting today's cyber threats. Here is a summary from a discussion between Ben Harrison, Director SOC and Security Services, Cygilant and Jake McCabe, CISSP, Presales Director, LogPoint. The cornerstone of a modern SOC and modern SIEM is that the basics are not forgotten. The essence of good security is doing the basics well.
Have you ever had to saw through a board by hand? I had to finish a partial cut by hand the other day while building a new mantle for my fireplace. It’s slow and difficult, and it often results in a lesser quality cut than one done with a power tool. It’s good exercise, though! We should all have to do it at least once so we appreciate our power tools more.
Many organizations don’t rely on outsourced security solutions such as MSSP. Rather, they prefer building their own SOC to combat nefarious cybersecurity threats and attacks. However, it is vital to know how an effective SOC is built and what should be its essential security ingredients.
Rising above the daily firefighting to actually measure the effectiveness of your security operations is easier said than done. This, in part, is because security analysts traditionally have worked across dozens of products and consoles. The enuing lack of integration has been a major pain point for SOC teams when it comes to reporting, especially when you receive random requests for data in a variety of formats.
