incident response
The most important point in a cyberattack is before it happens
Let’s get the scary thing out of the way: more than half of businesses have dealt with a serious security breach in the last two years. The chances of one happening are so …
The human cost of understaffed SOCs
SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day – with alert overload a prime culprit, a Trend Micro study reveals. …
Cyber investigations, threat hunting and research: More art than science
While it’s true that threat hunting, incident response, and threat research all have their foundations in science (operating system theory and architecture, computer language …
Only 8% of businesses that paid a ransom got all of their data back
The average total cost of recovery from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in a year, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021, a Sophos survey …
Cloud Sniper: Manage and automate cloud security operations
Cloud Sniper is an open-source platform for managing cloud security operations that aims to make it easy for cloud teams to deal with security incidents. “One of our …
The benefits of cyber threat intelligence
In this Help Net Security podcast, Maurits Lucas, Director of Intelligence Solutions at Intel 471, discusses the benefits of cyber threat intelligence. He also talks about how …
As attacks on Exchange servers escalate, Microsoft investigates potential PoC exploit leak
Microsoft Exchange servers around the world are still getting compromised via the ProxyLogon (CVE-2021-26855) and three other vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in early …
Analysts need advanced automation tools to reduce fear of missing incidents
Security analysts are becoming less productive due to widespread “alert fatigue” resulting in ignored alerts, increased stress, and fear of missing incidents, according to an …
Credential spill incidents nearly doubled since 2016
The number of annual credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020, according to F5 research. There was a 46% downturn in the number of spilled credentials …
Container security is a priority, but who’s responsibility is it?
NeuVector released a survey that identifies current trends and challenges enterprises are grappling with as they increasingly turn to microservices architectures. Among …
Which security practices lead to best security outcomes?
A proactive technology refresh strategy and a well-integrated tech stack are, according to a recent Cisco report, two security practices that are more likely than many others …
XDR: Unifying incident detection, response and remediation
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, the average time it took a company in 2019 to identify and contain a breach was 279 days. It was 266 days in 2018 …
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