Recently I wrote a blog about what makes a lean security team tick, however, after I posted, it occurred to me that I probably should have spent a few minutes talking about the different types of security teams we run into and how to determine if you fit into the lean security team category. You […]
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When budgets and resources are high, security teams have the luxury of building complex security infrastructures made up of only best-of-breed security products. See a new widget that claims to solve a narrow security challenge. Sure, add it to the stack. Heard about a revolutionary way to do this or that slightly better; no problem,
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Steve Salinas is the Head of Product Marketing at Stellar Cyber. In this episode, Steve joins host Zack Hack to discuss lean security teams and some of their challenges, why and how they can benefit from XDR, and more. Stellar Cyber is the only security operations platform providing high-speed, high-fidelity threat detection and automated response
August Product Update Stellar Cyber continually works to ensure the products we deliver not only meet but exceed the needs of our customers. As hockey legend Wayne Gretsky famously said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been” we also work hard to anticipate the future needs of
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Steve Salinas is the Head of Product Marketing at Stellar Cyber. In this episode, Steve joins host Zack Hack to discuss scaling for distributed security environments without breaking the bank, including what’s different about today’s new normal in the enterprise, why security for distributed environments is so expensive, and more. Stellar Cyber is the only
Stellar Cyber’s new sensors eliminate blind spots in your, or your customers’, distributed environments without breaking the bank. As the past two years have taught us, businesses can function in any number of situations, even when all their employees are working remotely. However, now that we slowly return to business as usual, organizations are realizing
Our new normal challenges the economic viability of traditional cybersecurity thinking. Read More »
In the last several months the XDR acronym is being used by almost every security product manufacturer. It is one thing to say that you have it, but the hard work that goes into building the detections takes years. It is not enough to say that you have a big data platform that you can
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CISO At Large David Barton, Chief Information Security Officer, brings to Stellar Cyber more than 20 years of experience in security leadership roles across a variety of industries, including telecommunications, healthcare, software development, finance and government. Prior to Stellar Cyber, he was Chief Operating Officer for 5Iron. Before 5Iron, he spent three years as Chief
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MDR-as-a-Service – Is it the Holy Grail as Some Say? David Barton, Stellar Cyber CISO Every few months it seems there is another wave of new ideas, and with it the need to sift out which are worth taking a closer look at versus those that are just hype. Security leaders must be careful in
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For years, I have heard the benefits of log forwarding and collection. Send all your data to a SIEM and your security program will be better and more mature. In reality, every CISO I have spoken to for the last 5 years complains about SIEM and outside of compliance purposes, their SIEM provides little value.
SIEM is dead! Long live C.I.A. Read More »
You may have heard about the idea of shifting left in security: as developers move more to the cloud, security professionals are looking more upstream – or left – toward where the development processes are initiated. As you progress from Development to Q/A and then Production (moving right), there is more underlying thinking about end-to-end
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Security as a Service – Where do I start? A discussion with David Barton, CISO at Stellar Cyber Every managed service provider seems to be focusing on security these days. For an MSP adding security services, or an MSSP looking to target a new market segment, here are the common questions I frequently get when
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Today’s businesses succeed by selling a handful of bundled items to a large number of customers. Think about restaurants, where the trend has been away from a’ la carte menus to limited menus, because it’s easier, more efficient, and requires less skill to produce a few entrée/side dish combinations than to try to fulfill each
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Data breaches are major security threats for enterprises and end users. Previously, we discussed the Equifax data breach that leaked the social security numbers of 147 million US citizens. Last month (07/2019), in the Capital One data breach, a hacker gained access to the names and addresses of about 100 million individuals in the United
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According to Bleeping Computer, a new ransomware called LooCipher has been found in the wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-loocipher-ransomware-spreads-its-evil-through-spam/ In usual fashion, it is impacting users through spam. Unsuspecting users are opening the phishing email, clicking on the link, giving the file authorization to use macros, and ultimately getting the malicious file installed. In 2011, Lockheed Martin is
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On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has special guest John Peterson, Chief Product Officer of Stellar Cyber (stellarcyber.ai) an innovative cyber security company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to empower SMBs (small and medium sized businesses) to gain access to the same types of advanced security tools that
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DNS has come under fire lately as nation-states and hacker groups have targeted DNS as a method to steal credentials from unsuspecting victims. According to Techcrunch the hackers first compromised the intended target via spearphishing. They then used known exploits to target servers and routers and move laterally within the network. In that process, the
Distributed Security Intelligence Artificial Intelligence is radically transforming the cybersecurity industry. To successfully use A.I for security, the quality of the data is paramount. Security-related data must be collected from many different sources – network data from packets, server data from commands and processes, application data such as logs, and threat intelligence data from security
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