How automation is evolving SecOps—and the real cost of cybercrime

This post is coauthored by Rob May, Founder and Managing Director, ramsac The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior...

How automation is evolving SecOps—and the real cost of cybercrime

This post is coauthored by Rob May, Founder and Managing Director, ramsac The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior...

Healthy security habits to fight credential breaches: Cyberattack Series

Fifty percent of Microsoft cybersecurity recovery engagements relate to ransomware,1 and 61 percent of all breaches involve credentials.2 In this second report in our ongoing Cyberattack Series, we look at the steps taken to discover, understand, and respond to a push-bombing request that targete...

Beyond the basics: Implementing an active defense

Active defense a key approach to protecting against major threats Having an active defense posture, where the defenders actively use threat intelligence and their own environment telemetry to uncover potential compromises, is the next stage in the cyber security maturity road. Instead of waiting...

Attack Analytics Helps You Find the Monsters Under the Bed

Alert fatigue kills data breach detection efforts Is there anything more frightening than missing a cyber attack? For most organizations, the answer is no. However, for many security teams, it’s challenging to tune alerts properly to minimize false positives and still be alerted to potential...

Why the Search for Best-Of-Breed Tooling is Causing Issues for Security Teams

The growing need to consolidate vendor portfolios The adoption of best-of-breed security solutions has led to unforeseen problems for SOCs. Onboarding a new solution increases complexity; it requires configuration, integration with existing tools, fine-tuning policies, and the ability to create...

How to Find Extra Cybersecurity Budget

Risk is up and budgets are down Organizational cybersecurity is a business issue, one could even say a finance issue, not just an IT issue. Gone are the days when cybersecurity was a luxury investment. Worldwide attacks are growing daily in frequency and complexity, regardless of the business siz...

Are You in the 2.5% Who Meet This Cybersecurity Job Requirement?

Of course you’re special. So are we. But decades of research tells us humans believe they’re good multitaskers – and we are really, seriously not. It seems a measly 2.5% of us can multitask well. The rest of us are best when we focus on a single goal, allowing the left and right sides of our brai...

Of Cybercriminals and IP Addresses

You don't like having the FBI knocking on your door at 6 am in the morning. Surprisingly, nor does your usual cybercriminal. That is why they hide at least the good ones, for example, behind layers of proxies, VPNs, or TOR nodes. Their IP address will never be exposed directly to the target's...

Modern Gaming Sucks Because of Abundance Fatigue

By Owais Sultan As you peruse the Xbox or Playstation store games, probably skipping through the deals to see if there… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Modern Gaming Sucks Because of Abundance Fatigue...

Introducing Qualys Context XDR: the Difference between Chaos & Clarity

In my role as a product leader, I have the pleasure of meeting security practitioners from organizations big and small, across multiple industry segments and geographies. No matter how large or small their budget or staff is, how much they’ve invested in their tech stack or how much experience th...

2021 in Review, Part 3: 5 Things Security Professionals Were Discussing this Year

Today, everyone is talking about CVE-2021-44228, and with good reason. But before that, here were five of the issues that dominated virtual “water cooler talk” in 2021: 5. Data security in the cloud Champion heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the...

How Red Canary and Microsoft can help reduce your alert fatigue

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Security alert fatigue Organizations often feel overwhelmed by the number of security alerts they receive. Frustrated by alert fatigue, these organizations want a deeper understandin...

How Red Canary and Microsoft can help reduce your alert fatigue

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Security alert fatigue Organizations often feel overwhelmed by the number of security alerts they receive. Frustrated by alert fatigue, these organizations want a deeper understandin...

Turn On, Tune In, Drop the Noise: Achieve Better Cloud Security by Reducing Noise

The modern world is full of signals. A select few are critically important, others are interesting or informative, and the overwhelming majority are less useful or painfully irrelevant. All of these signals that are neither useful nor relevant are best categorized as noise. For security...

The joy of phishing your employees

Many companies set up phishing test programs for their employees, often as part of a compliance requirement involving ongoing employee education on security topics. The aim of these programs is to train employees on how to spot a malicious link, not click it, and forward it on to the appropriate...

Does Cybersecurity Awareness Month actually improve security?

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, formerly known as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The idea is to raise awareness about cybersecurity, and provide resources for people to feel safer and more secure online. The month is a collaboration between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

That’s the way the cookie banner crumbles?

Elizabeth Denham, current head of the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO, the UK’s data protection watchdog and the organization tasked to ensure that businesses comply with the country’s strict data protection laws, is said to have met with her counterparts in the G7 nations on Tuesday to...

6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money

The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...

Cutting Through the Noise from Daily Alerts

According to a survey run on IR and SOC teams, analysts are required to keep track of an average of 6.8 threat intelligence feeds and manually handle an excessive number of alerts. The average security operations team receives over 11,000 alerts per day. Most of an analyst’s time almost 70% is...