Over the past few weeks, I have written several blogs about the lean security team. As you can tell, I am a fan of these types of teams as they take on the burden of keeping an organization secure with limited resources and budgets but somehow get the job done. One of the main reasons […]
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The Stellar Cyber September Product Update As summer ends and the kids tearing up your house for the past 12 weeks head back to school, it’s time to let you know what the product team has been up to here at Stellar Cyber. We have made some nice updates to our Open XDR Platform in
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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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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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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 this interview, we capture real-world experience and recommendations from an enterprise that implemented Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform. We talked with Jon Mayled, International IT and Security Director at PlastiPak Packaging, Inc., about what he learned during his implementation. SC: What is required to implement a successful XDR program? JM: Although I recommend
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With the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders that came with it, hackers started increasingly attempting to exploit the situation and damage businesses that operate remotely. When it comes to enterprises, it is common to cut corners in terms of cybersecurity as not many are aware of the consequences. In reality, there are various cyber threats,
For security vendors and those in the XDR market specifically, there is an architectural axis of build vs. integrate. On one end, you have “Build / Acquire Everything” – vendors that are vertically integrated and want to be an enterprise’s entire security stack. On the other end, you have “Integrate with Everything” – vendors that
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2022 Predictions By Aimei Wei Initial definitions of XDR envisioned eXtended Detection and Response – a single platform that unified detection and response across the entire security kill chain. According to Rik Turner, who coined the XDR acronym, XDR is “a single, stand-alone solution that offers integrated threat detection and response capabilities.” To meet Omdia’s
Resource strapped companies trying to put together a comprehensive cybersecurity defense in today’s environment have three key challenges: there’s not enough time, there aren’t enough people, and there isn’t enough money. Most companies look at their monthly spend on security tools, training and headcount and the typical reaction (after the groaning) is to stand pat,
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What are the most common misconceptions about XDR? One of the common misconceptions is that XDR is automatically the ideal security solution. Point security solution vendors position XDR as the Holy Grail if you are using their product suite. By default, this positioning has limitations, since customers can’t onboard data sources from other vendors and
Stellar Cyber is simplifying cyberthreat detection and response with its open extended detection and response (XDR) platform for enterprise networks and managed security service providers (MSSPs). XDR is an emerging product category solving three major pain points when it comes to security operations. First, it provides an open solution to replace a multitude of siloed
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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
Everything about XDR is around Correlations, not Hype Read More »
Today there is no shortage of compliance requirements. There are so many, in fact, that there are billions of dollars spent every year on tools and audits. These regulations have the right goal in mind: protect companies, their intellectual property and their customers. Unfortunately, by the time these laws make it through the government process
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The time has come for cyber security technology to keep up with the adversaries. Now that we have seen so many successful multi-stage attacks, we need to reassess the way we correlate the signals we are seeing from all the security tools in our environments. Correlation is helpful but it doesn’t always paint the complete
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Matching Resources and Business Risk with the Right Solution Gaining visibility and responding to attacks across the entire enterprise infrastructure (endpoints, servers, applications, SaaS, cloud, users, etc.) is a very tall order in today’s cybersecurity environment. Enterprises are forced to create complex security stacks consisting of SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, EDR, NDR, TIP and other tools
Samuel Jones, VP of product management, Stellar Cyber, discusses how SIEMs were supposed to be the ultimate security analytics platform. Still, many users feel they haven’t lived up to their promises. Now, extended detection and response (XDR) promises to be the ultimate platform. Should you adopt XDR? What does it mean for your SIEM? Security
The current model for cybersecurity is broken. It consists of acquiring and deploying a lot of stand-alone tools, each with its own console, to analyze logs or traffic and detect anomalies that could be threats. In this model, it’s up to each security analyst to communicate with other analysts to determine whether each tool’s individual
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