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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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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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 anchor of Enterprise Security is popularly known as a “Defense in Depth” architecture. The Defense in Depth (DID) is a classic defensive concept used in the military that found acceptance in the Infosec community in the early 2000s. The Infosec implementation/version of DID has evolved to address the threats as the threat landscape progressed
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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
For the last several years, MSP partners have been making a tough decision – should I build cybersecurity within my own business or outsource it? Until a few years ago, the manual nature of SOC technology and cybersecurity talent made it very difficult to build your own service. Today there are many new, more robust
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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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In this tumultuous software equity market, where corporate valuations are coming back to levels based on fundamentals, one private software company stands out – Rippling. Rippling is an all-in-one HR & IT platform built from the ground up for managing everything related to employees. The key word there is everything – that is the company’s
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As an MSSP, being proactive in your approach to cybersecurity is a best practice. Ensuring that your customers are doing their part to update and patch their systems is critical. If you can integrate your asset management with your SOC/XDR platform there are huge gains to be realized. Scanning all your customer environments is the
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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Cybersecurity protection lives on data from sensors and systems throughout the organization’s infrastructure. But data without any background or context only creates irrelevant noise that frustrates and distracts analysts. Without an integrated platform to correlate all that data, security teams become buried in an overwhelming amount of false alerts. XDR is specifically designed to incorporate
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Cybersecurity systems are ripe for disruption. Over the years, individual tools have proliferated, each with its own data format, causing a deluge of disparate data. Also, there is a global shortage of skilled cybersecurity analysts who can evaluate that data (and they are very expensive if you can find them). Finally, and hackers are getting
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According to the FBI, the number of cyberattacks reported to their Cyber Division is up 400 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, and attacks are getting worse. From financial sites to healthcare sites to government sites to supply chain industries, no one is safe from these attacks. The traditional defense against these threats is the Security
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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We asked CIOs and CISOs what keeps them up at night, and the two main concerns are reducing security risks and improving analyst confidence and productivity. CxOs must report to corporate boards, and members of those boards are getting smarter about asking probing questions about the company’s security posture. CxOs need answers to those questions,
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