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In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Leon Ward, VP of Product Management at ThreatQuotient, talks about bringing order to the chaos of security operations, as well as the ideas behind a new product called ThreatQ Investigations. Here’s a tr… Continue reading Bring order to the chaos of incident response and threat investigations
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A survey conducted by LogicHub at RSA Conference 2018 identified 79 percent of respondents believe both human expertise and security automation is needed for a powerful security infrastructure to keep enterprises safe from breaches. Still, breaches go … Continue reading SOCs require automation to avoid analyst fatigue for emerging threats
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Concerted efforts to increase job satisfaction, automation in the Security Operations Center (SOC) and gamification in the workplace are key to beating cybercriminals at their own game, according to McAfee. Which of the below areas of the cybersecurity… Continue reading Would automation lead to improved cybersecurity?
Many organizations still rely on reactive blocking and tackling strategies, but proactive threat hunting is the only way to detect the type of chatter that is indicative of an impending attack.
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Amazon Web Services announced Tuesday it acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts, threat hunting company Sqrrl. Terms were not disclosed. Sqrrl CEO Mark Terenzoni wrote on the company’s website that he and his co-workers were “thrilled.” “For now, it is business as usual at Sqrrl. We will continue to work with customers to provide advanced threat hunting capabilities,” Terenzoni said. “And, over time, we’ll work with AWS to do even more on your behalf. Thank you for your support. We really appreciate the trust customers have put into Sqrrl over the past five years, and we are excited about the next phase of our journey.” The deal, which has been rumored for weeks, comes as the cloud computing behemoth continues to boost its secure offerings. In November, AWS announced its Secret Region, which can handle data up to the Secret level of security classification — the second-highest level behind only Top Secret. The […]
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Verizon acquired automated threat hunting startup Niddel, according to a company release issued Friday. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Niddel offers a platform called Magnet that relies on machine learning, removing the need for human analysts to write code or process data in order to stop threats. Founded by three computer scientists with Brazilian backgrounds, the company was awarded a U.S. patent for “Systems and methods for classifying malicious network events” in 2016. “Verizon is the perfect partner to accelerate our long-term vision of delivering automation and intelligence solutions through machine learning to more organizations throughout the world,” said Niddel CEO Felipe Boucas. “Using machine learning to improve information accuracy significantly reduces false positives and significantly improves our detection and response capabilities,” said Alexander Schlager, Verizon’s executive director for security services, in a release. Verizon has long offered a wide array of cybersecurity services, […]
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Thanks to their harrowing experience with the Evil Witch, Hansel and Gretel went on to become expert threat hunters to protect the children of the forest.
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