Cost-effective Managed SIEM Service
Contract with a third-party for managed SIEM services is increasingly affordable and requested by all-size organizations. Without any doubt, the advantages associated with this service allow monitoring, analyzing, and responding to cyber security threats more cost-effectively. However, what is a managed SIEM precisely? Is the price the only feature to take into account? What is the difference between a managed...
A CMMC Compliance Checklist
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a well-known framework for assessing the maturity of an organization's cybersecurity. It's designed to help organizations improve their cybersecurity by raising awareness about best practices and implementing a roadmap. On November 4, 2021, the Department of Defense announced the strategic direction of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, marking the completion of an...
How a Dark Web Monitoring Can Save Your Organization
Organizations often have their confidential information illicitly for sale on the darknets, but they don't know it. Statistically, over 75% of compromised credentials are reported to the victim organization by law enforcement when it has become too late. That's why dark web monitoring tools providers are the appropriate solution to help you know on time when your credentials are stolen...
Using event correlation and AI for Threat Detection and Incident Response
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. However, it is alarming how many companies are unaware of the aftermath of being attacked. A successful attack can cause irreversible damage to companies' finances. This is because attacks include money theft, damage, and destruction of data, interruption in services, decreased productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft...
What is a Cloud SIEM? The bad, the good, and the ugly.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is software that collects security information from different sources, analyzes log data, and identifies patterns that may indicate a threat or breach. Using SIEM, the IT teams can real-time detect and respond to a wide range of threats across networks. However, traditional on-premises SIEMs are staying back and being replaced by new security focuses...
How do AWS Security Groups work?
AWS Security Groups are essential components that help you secure your resources on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With Security Groups, you can restrict which types of traffic can enter your resources, including specific ports, source IP ranges, or even protocols. Next, you will learn quickly how AWS Security Groups work with their default inbound and outbound rules. What are AWS Security Groups? AWS Security...
Best guide to creating an incident response plan.
What is incident response? Incident response (IR) is the process by which Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) help organizations to identify, stop and recover from any data breach as quickly as possible. What is an incident response plan? An incident response plan is a document that guideline organizations about responding effectively to disasters, cyber-attack, or security breaches, helping to mitigate incident-related expenses...
Hire a white hat hacker for website security
What is a white hat hacker? A white-hat hacker is a hired person for an organization to help the owner through ethical hacking find and fix weaknesses in the system's security before black hat hackers exploit them. What is ethical hacking? The term "ethical" means that the hacker has permission from a system or network owner to access it. According to the recent...