supply chain Open XDR Platform Open XDR Ai-Driven Security Cybersecurity The news earlier this week about the CDK hack reveals the major flaw—and prevalent issue—in a vulnerable supply chain. The vulnerability of the CDK Global system turns out to have had far reaching consequences as nearly 15,000 dealerships across the continent are still struggling to […]
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As many of us take stock of our personal goals, achievements, and aspirations this time of year, I like to look at our company similarly, reviewing our goals, achievements, and aspirations for the future.Going into 2023, we had four clear objectives: Deliver an exceptional customer experience from day one. Strive for continuous product innovation. Expand
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Recently, MSSP Alert published its yearly report on the Top 250 MSSPs. The report is chock-full of interesting information from a survey of MSSPs that makes it a worthwhile read. Below are a few key takeaways that anyone working with an MSSP, looking to become an MSSP, or an MSP seeking out an MSSP partner
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University environments are naturally open, so cybersecurity risk is an ongoing concern. Trying to lock down the network as you would with a business enterprise isn’t in the cards. Still, it’s tempting in an environment where individual departments, professors, or students introduce their own new technologies, devices, or applications into the network. Rather than trying
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With every breach and data leak splashed across your favorite news website or X feed, your customers’ concern about being the next victim of a cyberattack increases. Whether you are a reseller or a managed service provider (MSP), your customers know that the blame and fallout will land on their desks if they experience a
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To state the obvious, there is no such thing as a perfect cybersecurity product. While there are many great products security pros use daily to keep their organizations secure, every one of them has things about them that could be better. However, as security stacks get increasingly complex, all these “less than ideal” items taken
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Cybersecurity given: attackers will never stop trying to find ways to exploit weaknesses and vulnerabilities anywhere in an organization to carry out an attack. Whether it’s an unpatched web server, an out-of-date application with known vulnerabilities, or a user who tends to click links first and read later, attackers focus on finding a way to
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Three signs your cybersecurity vendor might be gaming the system For those of you who attended the RSA Conference in April, I am sure the bombardment of vendor emails, phone calls, and LinkedIn meeting requests is underway. While I’d bet many of the vendors begging for meetings offer products or services that are not on
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For an MSSP, the key to a CIOs heart is reducing risk for a cost that is less than what they’re spending now, Stellar Cyber asserts. A CIOs or CISOs job is never easy, but it’s more difficult now because cyberattacks are more frequent and more complex than ever before. Cybersecurity is a top priority
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been transforming the cybersecurity landscape for over a decade, with machine learning (ML) speeding the detection of threats and identifying anomalous user and entity behaviors. However, recent developments in large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, have brought AI to the forefront of the cybersecurity community. These models use documented
There is an innate quality humans have to resist change. Our brains are hardwired to resist change, according to researchers. A part of our brain called the amygdala sees change as a threat and releases hormones for fear, fight, or flight. So when change arises, our brain tries to protect us from harm1, which makes
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Reduce business risk with early and accurate identification and remediation of all attack activity while reducing costs, maintaining investments in existing tools, and accelerating analyst productivity. Open XDR: Overall view and alerting of all potential attacks on the IT landscape In order to successfully protect a company from cyber attacks, a large number of different
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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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