Category Archives: Threat Management

Self-Assessment: How Can You Improve Financial Services Cybersecurity?

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It’s common knowledge that threat actors target banks. Not only might these attackers want to directly steal money, by doing this they’re also hitting the customers and the trust in the bank. If a financial institution suffers a loss, even insurance can only go so far to minimize the actual cost to the organization. The cost […]

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‘Inbox Zero’ Your Threat Reports: How to Combat Security Alert Fatigue

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At best, a new cybersecurity alert should trigger immediate action. But we all know in practice that work is not always clear cut. A new alert can find itself as just the latest un-addressed number in the inbox. In an inbox-zero case, the latest new alert is the most urgent task. But in a backed-up, […]

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Combating Sleeper Threats With MTTD

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During the SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise, threat actors lurked in the victim’s network for more than a year. Discovered by FireEye in December 2020, the earliest traces of a modified SolarWinds Orion go back as early as October 2019. Although these early versions did not contain the malicious backdoor (this was added in March […]

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New Ransomware Threats Are Getting Bolder: How to Rewrite the Script

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Greater exposure is both good news and bad news when it comes to new ransomware threats. While ransomware attacks themselves are never good news, it is a positive sign that these attacks are receiving more media attention, such as the attack on an entire hospital chain, an attack on a Las Vegas school district and even […]

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A More Effective Approach to Combating Software Supply Chain Attacks

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Software supply chain attacks are not new, although, as we have seen recently, if executed successfully, they can have huge payoffs for sophisticated attackers. Detecting malicious code inserted into a trusted vendor’s security updates is difficult to do at scale. For most organizations, it is impractical given the time required to analyze updates versus the […]

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Preparing a Client Environment for Threat Management

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A key part of making any threat management program successful is ensuring it maps properly to the client’s needs. In the past, this has been challenging for many groups providing threat management to their internal teams. The challenge has largely been in making sure the proposed program and the suite of solutions find and call […]

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How Open Security Can Make Threat Management More Efficient

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Security operations center (SOC) teams struggle with an array of challenges. Too many tools can make the work too complex; and recruiting and retaining personnel can be hard amidst a skills shortage. Experts need to focus on using their skills to their fullest. But, an open approach can improve threat management in a way that […]

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Modernizing Your Security Operations Center for the Cloud

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Several factors are converging to exert pressure on how security operations centers (SOCs) traditionally function. Evolving information technology (IT) infrastructure, such as cloud migration, serverless services and endpoints being off-network, are straining existing SOC methodologies and tooling. The attack surface is expanding as a result of the distributed workforce and adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and […]

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Threat Hunting Techniques: A Quick Guide

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Threat hunting is an essential part of security operations center services and should be incorporated at an early stage. Threat hunting is the art of finding the unknowns in the environment, going beyond traditional detection technologies, such as security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint detection and response (EDR) and others. There are multiple methods […]

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Why Cyber Ranges Are Effective To Train Your Teams

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Cyber ranges may be one of the most effective ways to train IT professionals in defending against cyber attacks. The virtual environments deliver simulated real-world attacks that test multiple dimensions and stakeholders within diverse environments. Cybersecurity teams can use cyber ranges to practice defending against simulated threats in immersive training scenarios, essentially preparing and rehearsing […]

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