Quick Wins to Combat Data Leaks

Data leakage is a worry. Holding lots of sensitive information about your employees and your customers means that if data is exposed it would be a catastrophe. No one wants to be the next Mossack Fonseca, or Equifax, or Marriott Hotel, or Facebook, or… The majority of clients I speak to tell me...

7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC

It takes a special sort of person to be a security analyst. The person must be detail-oriented, curious, intelligent and hard-working, and with a quick reaction time as constant attacks unfold. These analysts have deep expertise that they use during their long shifts to sort through what’s worth...

CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3b: A day in the life

The Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC blog series is designed to share our approach and experience with security operations center SOC operations. We share strategies and learnings from our SOC, which protects Microsoft, and our Detection and Response Team DART, who helps our customers addre...

The Best Templates for Posting Cybersecurity Jobs

The cybersecurity of a company is heavily reliant upon the skills and knowledge of the people who install, manage, and operate its security products. This means that recruiting and nurturing the best security team possible should be a CISO's top priority. Cynet's Ultimate Cybersecurity Job Postin...

It’s Time for Your SOC to Level Up

Given an ever-increasing cyberattack surface, a global security workforce shortage, as well as an increased frequency and sophistication of attacks, security operations centers SOCs need to leverage better tools – namely artificial intelligence AI – in order to manage threats. An organization’s S...

The Best Templates for Posting Cybersecurity Jobs

The cybersecurity of a company is heavily reliant upon the skills and knowledge of the people who install, manage and operate its security products. This means that recruiting and nurturing the best security team possible should be a CISO’s top priority. Cynet’s Ultimate Cybersecurity Job Posting...

5 tips for building an effective security operations center (SOC)

Security is more than just tools and processes. It is also the people that develop and operate security systems. Creating systems in which security professionals can work efficiently and effectively with current technologies is key to keeping your data and networks secure. Many enterprise...

Sooty - The SOC Analysts All-In-One CLI Tool To Automate And Speed Up Workflow

Sooty is a tool developed with the task of aiding SOC analysts with automating part of their workflow. One of the goals of Sooty is to perform as much of the routines checks as possible, allowing the analyst more time to spend on deeper analysis within the same time-frame. Sooty is now proudly...

Download: 2019 Security Team Assessment Template

As a security professional, it is critical that you assess the performance of your security team and keep in-the-know regarding your current security posture, in addition to planning ahead. ‘The Ultimate 2019 Security Team Assessment Template‘ is a first-of-its-kind tool that encapsulates all the...

The Ultimate 2019 Security Team Assessment Template

Assessing the performance of your security team is critical to both knowing your current posture, as well as planning ahead. 'The Ultimate 2019 Security Team Assessment Template' is the first attempt to capture all the main KPIs of the security team main pillars, saving CIOs and CISOs the time an...

Memory corruption

A memory leak in the sofsetgetlargectrldata function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering sofgetctrlcopyparams failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1...

CVE-2019-18812

A memory leak in the sofdfsentrywrite function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption, aka CID-c0a333d842ef...

CVE-2019-18811

A memory leak in the sofsetgetlargectrldata function in sound/soc/sof/ipc.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering sofgetctrlcopyparams failures, aka CID-45c1380358b1...

CVE-2019-18812

A memory leak in the sofdfsentrywrite function in sound/soc/sof/debug.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption, aka CID-c0a333d842ef...

MSPs Can Now Provide Managed Detection and Response with Cynet 360

Today, managed detection and response MDR is a rapidly growing market segment, actively pursued by some 27 percent of organizations, according to April 2019 numbers released by ESG Research. According to the same, another 11 percent of organizations plan to pursue MDR in the future. The Cynet 360...

How MSPs can become Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Providers

Managed detection and response MDR is one of the fastest-growing segments in the cybersecurity market. ESG research from April 2019 reveals that 27% of organizations are actively pursuing an MDR project, while another 11% plan to pursue an MDR project in the future. Cynet now enables service...

CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3a: Choosing SOC tools

The Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC blog series is designed to share our approach and experience with security operations center SOC operations. Our learnings in the series come primarily from Microsoft’s corporate IT security operation team, one of several specialized teams in the Microso...

Successful SOC 2 Approaches to Address Fraud Risk

Coalfire has found that many SOC 2 clients struggle with addressing COSO Principle 8 fraud risk considerations because they innately think only about financial fraud risks. Many clients do not understand that fraud risks depend on the nature of the business and the environment in which the busine...

CISO/CIO: Get an iPad and Apple Watch with an App Monitoring your Security 24/7

If you are a CISO or CIO, you need to know what is going on with your organizational security. Together with that, you cannot afford to be inundated with alerts, messages and other data whenever something happens. On the one hand, you need to be in the know, because cyberattacks can occur at any...

Announcing New CB ThreatHunter App for Phantom

Today’s cybersecurity landscape is facing multiple challenges - and not just from cyber attackers. Security teams are understaffed and struggling to find the talent they need to complete their day-to-day tasks, with limited visibility across their security stack. To address these challenges, SOC...