By nature, humans are wired to avoid undue risks. While there are always exceptions to the rules, by and large when given the choice between the known and unknown, the typical person one will choose the known even though the choice might only deliver a marginally positive result. It is this natural bias towards the […]
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Practitioners, executives, and investors know the stakes for cybersecurity are incredibly high and will only get higher. Ransomware locking up mission-critical devices in Oil & Gas or Healthcare, disruption causing standstills in Logistics, and identity theft rising due to your data being leaked ten times over. The story in global cybersecurity that I spend a
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Managers of MSSP cybersecurity teams face many challenges, including the growing number and complexity of threats, tight budgets, a shortage of security analysts, and overworked teams who are frustrated by high volumes of alerts. Analyst teams have struggled for years with the philosophy of using a dozen or more discrete security tools to hunt for
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As a cybersecurity vendor, making a great product or service that solves a big problem is our goal. If we do our job right, we will help security teams better protect their environments and grow our business. Now, a million variables play into a company’s ability to grow. While many are directly related to the
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Written by Patti Hallock, Director of XDR Operations/Engineering at Agio Your security operations are critical, and every decision you make impacts those operations. When you have separate service providers–one for managed IT and another for extended detection & response (XDR)–you run the risk of delayed response and service. Patti Hallock, our Director of XDR Operations
Originally posted in Almost every vendor, from email gateway companies to developers of threat intelligence platforms, is positioning themselves as an XDR player. But unfortunately, the noise around XDR makes it harder for buyers to find solutions that might be right for them or, more importantly, avoid ones that don’t meet their needs. Stellar Cyber
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Here we go again. Just after the world was pulling itself out of the total economic shutdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, the R word looms on the horizon. We’ve seen our everyday lives touched by large scale inflation over the past 6 months. Groceries, Gas, common goods, everything is more expensive than it used to
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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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Introduction: The next generation of security intelligence is here, and it’s called extended detection and response (XDR). XDR is a technology that enables organizations to detect and respond to advanced threats faster, easier and with greater accuracy than ever before. It does this by unifying disparate data sources in one centralized location and providing richer
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 »
A year has passed since the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to stop service for five days. This attack created a huge fuel shortage for eastern and southern states, and forced Colonial Pipeline to pay a hefty $4.4 million ransom. Ransomware attacks have continued unabated since then, with the most recent ones
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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,
MSSPs all deal with a crushing number of alerts daily – but how are the most successful partners managing the influx? The MSSP industry has seen a significant increase in attacks on MSP and MSSP partners this year. This has led to several new attacks on everything from RMM tools to applications. We all deal
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