Category: Network Traffic Analysis

When and how to bring in an MSSP to help your lean security team
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

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

What Rippling Will Do To HR, XDR Will Do To Security
In this tumultuous software equity market, where corporate valuations are coming back to levels based on fundamentals, one private software

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

Going SOCless
According to the FBI, the number of cyberattacks reported to their Cyber Division is up 400 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, and attacks

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

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

Why Network Detection and Response (NDR) ? See the Entire Elephant in the Room
Network detection and response (NDR) has a long history, evolving out of network security and network traffic analysis (NTA). The historical

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,

NDR vs. Open XDR – What’s the difference?
Every security tool vendor talks about detection and response, so what makes NDR so special, and how does it relate to XDR / Open XDR? NDR is

Q&A on Network Detection and Response (NDR)
What is NDR? Today’s network detection and response (NDR) has a long history, evolving out of network security and network traffic analysis

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

Is Extended Detection and Response (XDR) the Ultimate Foundation of Cybersecurity Infrastructure?
Samuel Jones, VP of product management, Stellar Cyber, discusses how SIEMs were supposed to be the ultimate security analytics platform. Still,

Improve Security Across the F5 WAF Engine with Better Visibility, Correlation, and Auto-Response
Challenges Most IT organizations have deployed multiple traditional security products and services from multiple vendors—yet they remain

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

How to leverage Open XDR as a strategic advantage for MSP and MSSP partners
Stellar Cyber built the original Open XDR platform. It provides tool consolidation, improved SOC performance, and significantly reduces the

With Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR, No EDR is an Island
Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR platform is about giving customers a choice in security tools, and this extends to EDR systems as well as NGFW,

Cyberthreats Go Sideways
The cyber threats are going sideways. Here I’m not talking about Sideways, the 2004 movie starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church that