Category: SOC


Guest Blog: A Tale of Two Cyber Vulnerabilities: Why It Makes Sense to Consolidate Managed IT and Security Operations
Written by Patti Hallock, Director of XDR Operations/Engineering at Agio Your security operations are critical, and every decision you make


Feature in-Focus: Stellar Cyber Central
Concerned by the scalability of your SOC/NG-SIEM in your multinational organization or multiple data centers on different continents? Worried
Economics Of Shift Left Security
I’ve worked with dozens of SecOps and Detection and Response teams over the past few years and it has become crystal clear to me how important it


Advocating for security in a financial storm?
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


What is a Lean Security Team, and how to know if you are part of one
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


Should you build your own or purchase MDR services — Is Open XDR the answer?
For the last several years, MSP partners have been making a tough decision – should I build cybersecurity within my own business or outsource


Cybersecurity Infrastructure Needs a New Model
Cybersecurity systems are ripe for disruption. Over the years, individual tools have proliferated, each with its own data format, causing a


Technical Approach To Universal EDR
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


Mastering EDR – Industry’s First Universal EDR
In detection and response, bidirectional integrations between security products, let alone unidirectional integrations, are not enough. There


Tired Of Reactive Strategies? Proactively Stop Attackers Earlier In The Kill Chain!
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


Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR – Step into Security
Security can be intimidating for MSP partners making the transition to MSSP. The industry makes it sound too complex and capital intensive to


XDR will converge from different directions: XDR, Open XDR, Native XDR, Hybrid XDR -> XDR
2022 Predictions By Aimei Wei Initial definitions of XDR envisioned eXtended Detection and Response – a single platform that unified


Ransomware is the Tip of the Iceberg—Can Open XDR / XDR avoid you becoming the Titanic?
Ransomware attacks are occurring at an increasingly staggering pace. The tactics for deploying it are evolving at an equally rapid pace.


SIEM, XDR, and the Evolution of Cybersecurity Infrastructure
Security Event and Information Management platforms (SIEMs) collect data from security logs and in doing so are supposed to identify blind spots,


Cybersecurity Must Evolve Beyond Compliance: Is Open XDR the Answer?
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


The Case for Open XDR – X Means Everything
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


Alerts, Events, Incidents: Where Should Your Security Team Focus?
As the cybersecurity threat landscape is evolving so is the way we need to look at those threats. The drumbeat of new breaches is continuous. If


XDR Delivers Significant Performance Improvement over SIEM
In every SOC environment, there are two key metrics that demonstrate efficiency and effectiveness: Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Mean Time to