Banks in West Africa have been targeted by at least four hacking campaigns since mid-2017, with online attackers wielding commoditized attack tools and "living off the land" tactics to disguise their efforts, Symantec warns.
Implementation of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions can be a complex process, with multiple factors affecting the overall performance of the device.
NSS research indicates that SD-WANs are typically deployed with the vendor's pre-defined or recommended (i.e., "out-of-the-box") settings. The tested...
Organizations looking to migrate to a next-generation security operations center must first carefully assess any problems they are facing with current security technology, says Vikram Mehta, associate director of information security at MakeMyTrip, an India-based online ticketing portal.
Will the newly introduced Data Care Act prove to be a viable U.S. equivalent to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or is it destined to fail? An analysis leads this edition of the ISMG Security Report, which also features reports on robotic process automation and Mastercard's "fusion center."
By building in some risk intelligence upfront, organizations can upgrade their security operations centers and reduce the noise from the sheer volume of alerts and false positives, says Ganesh Prasad of RSA, who shares insights.
Managing sensitive financial information and combatting cyberthreats often means finding efficiencies to do more with less. Modestly staffed IT teams often find themselves overwhelmed and challenged to complete projects that benefit the top line while also improving their cybersecurity maturity and meeting compliance...
In an era of ever-expanding attack surfaces, protecting against threat actors - from commodity malware, insider threats and crimeware to state-sponsored exploits, hacktivists and terrorists - has become an increasingly complex activity. Disconnected silos of prevention, monitoring or investigation technologies...
What are the key differences between building a SOC for a large enterprise vs. for a small to midsized organization? Trustwave's Kory Daniels explains the distinction and outlines the must-have skills.
The security operations center (SOC) faces mountain challenges: lack of personnel, disparate security tools, multiple alerts that must be run down, prioritization of alerts and the transition between incident detection and incident response.
Security affects and is affected by operational and IT considerations....
Choosing the right platform to build your agency's security operations center is arguably more important than choosing any point security product. But are you aware of the criteria you should consider when evaluating which Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform to choose?
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Companies want to understand and implement threat hunting practices, but in reality - and with a limited budget - it is not always feasible to do so in-house, given the demand for resources and skills. That's where managed threat hunting enters. More often, organizations want to use that funding to shore up defense...
Many companies outsource payroll, legal, and other various departments within their organization that aren't core and a lot of them quite frankly fail, which is why we see all the breaches we see in the news.The biggest cybersecurity budget in the business cannot save you from suffering one of the biggest breaches.
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Rapid increase in the frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks, adoption of new technologies and ever evolving regulatory requirements, continue to heighten security demands on organizations of all types. And many organizations are finding it difficult to create and maintain a robust cybersecurity program given...
Organizations are increasing their security budgets, yet security struggles persist. Enterprise security teams are struggling to adapt skill sets, tools and controls at the pace of digital transformation happening in their organizations.
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This survey report reveals that for many organizations, threat hunting is still new and poorly defined from a process and organizational standpoint. Most are still reacting to alerts and incidents instead of proactively seeking out the threats.
While the act of threat hunting cannot be fully automated, it heavily...
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