Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 1: Organization

We’re frequently asked how we operate our Security Operations Center SOC at Microsoft particularly as organizations are integrating cloud into their enterprise estate. This is the first in a three part blog series designed to share our approach and experience, so you can use what we learned to...

New Video Series: How a Security Operations Command Center Took On the Largest Attacks the Internet Has Ever Seen

For over two decades I've made it my mission to stop "bad guys" on the Internet. Working day in and day out alongside an amazing team of security professionals inside our global Security Operations Command Center SOCC has given me the opportunity to do just that. I'm excited to share with you our...

Partner Perspectives: Optimize your Case Management with CB Defense and Swimlane

Jay Spann is a SOAR Evangelist for Swimlane. As today’s threat landscape continues grow and change, security operations centers SOCs are inundated with endless alerts and have to implement incident response processes and policies to address them. This typically means long days of tedious, manual...

Partner Perspectives: Beyond SIEM: Carbon Black + JASK Connected

Oren Arar is the Head of Alliances for JASK. The real-time integration of JASK & Carbon Black provides high-value alerts and extended contextual investigation insights to our joint customers, all within a cloud-native environment. Background The JASK Autonomous Security Operations Center ASOC...

Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center shares best practices

Today, a single breach, physical or virtual, can cause millions of dollars of damage to an organization and potentially billions in financial losses to the global economy. Each week seems to bring a new disclosure of a cybersecurity breach somewhere in the world. As we look at the current state o...

Partner Perspectives: Notes from the Field: Extending Carbon Black Visibility to Undetected Malware

Daniel LaVoie is a Senior Solutions Specialist at ReversingLabs. On a recent customer visit, I asked the company’s Director of Security Operations how ReversingLabs came to be deployed as a part of their SOC tool set. The answer was quite interesting, and one that I wanted to share with our blog...

Debunking AI’s Impact on the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Artificial intelligence is the latest buzzword to take hold of the cybersecurity industry. It is being touted, among other things, as the ultimate solution to the cybersecurity skills gap. But just how accurate is this belief? Will AI be the cure to all of our cybersecurity ailments, as human...

PatrOwl - Open Source, Free And Scalable Security Operations Orchestration Platform

PatrOwl is a scalable, free and open-source solution for orchestrating Security Operations. PatrowlManager is the Front-end application for managing the assets, reviewing risks on real-time, orchestrating the operations scans, searches, API calls, ..., aggregating the results, relaying alerts on...

Partner Perspectives: Orchestrating Endpoint Security with CyberSponse and Carbon Black

Amit Jain is the Principal Technical Product Manager at CyberSponse. Today's network security infrastructures are complex beasts. Increasing mobile and cloud deployments have made managing endpoint security more challenging than ever before. The dynamic and ever-evolving nature of today’s...

Stronger Security with Global IT Asset Inventory

On a Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend, a company’s security operations center receives a potentially serious alert: It appears that a domain controller has been tampered with. After examining event logs and overlaying network traffic, a SOC analyst confirms that a suspicious system...

Delivering security innovation that puts Microsoft’s experience to work for you

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of our digital age. Without it, everything from our personal email accounts and privacy to the way we do business, and all types of critical infrastructure, are under threat. As attackers evolve, staying ahead of these threats is getting harder. Microsoft ca...

A Hybrid Solution to Taming SOC Alert Overload

The moving assembly line was one of the greatest innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Prior to 1913, when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line in his factory, cars were built by humans performing manual, mundane tasks. Imagine humans hand painting cars on the factory floor –...

Partner Perspectives: Defense in Depth with Carbon Black and ProtectWise

Ramon Peypoch is the Chief Product Officer for ProtectWise. Navigating the number of enterprise security point products used to defend against today’s threat landscape can be overwhelming. Some sources say the average enterprise uses 75 security products to secure its network. Reducing the number...

Cb Response Named Leader in EDR Space by Forrester

Last quarter, Forrester created a report assessing the state of the EDR market and how vendors stack up against one another. A variety of companies were evaluated in three key areas: The strengths and weaknesses of their current offerings. Forrester cited key criteria to include: alerting...

The Key to EDR You Didn’t Know You Were Missing

It’s no longer enough for companies to simply “keep up” in the world of cybersecurity. To prevent attackers from infiltrating your systems, you need to be one step ahead at all times. It’s no wonder, then, that the majority of companies are spending more on cybersecurity than ever before.1 While...

Partner Perspectives: Security Orchestration as a Catalyst for Proactive Incident Response

Meny Har is the VP of Product for Siemplify. Benjamin Franklin famously advised the fire-threatened residents of Philadelphia, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” And while being proactive may have been effective for fire prevention, the approach does not translate into the impendi...

Partner Perspectives: How TrapX & Carbon Black Use Deception Technology to Better Protect Your Enterprise

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of IoT devices, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve. This new landscape creates many opportunities for potential attackers. Security becomes even more important for everyone in this n...

Reverse Engineering the Analyst: Building Machine Learning Models for the SOC

Many cyber incidents can be traced back to an original alert that was either missed or ignored by the Security Operations Center SOC or Incident Response IR team. While most analysts and SOCs are vigilant and responsive, the fact is they are often overwhelmed with alerts. If a SOC is unable to...

Bejtlich Joining Splunk

Since posting Bejtlich Moves On I've been rebalancing work, family, and personal life. I invested in my martial arts interests, helped more with home duties, and consulted through TaoSecurity. Today I'm pleased to announce that, effective Monday May 21st 2018, I'm joining the Splunk team. I will ...

Overwhelmed by overchoice at RSA Conference 2018

As over 500 companies vied for mindshare at this years RSA conference - a cacophony of vendors pitching thousands of products from brightly colored booths - it reminded me of how challenging it was for me to separate signal from noise when I was managing global networks. And the rapid growth of...