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How to Prioritize Cybersecurity Risks: A Primer for CISOs

CISOs and other security leaders know they can't find and fix every vulnerability. Yet, that's what's expected. So, what can you do? The short answer: Work smarter, not harder. To do that, you need to reduce the vast universe of potential vulnerabilities down to a subset of the vulnerabilities that matter...

Predictive Prioritization: Data Science Lets You Focus on the 3% of Vulnerabilities Likely to Be Exploited

In 2017, 15,038 new CVEs were published, up from 9,837 in 2016. Last year, 16,500 new CVEs were disclosed. With vulnerabilities growing year after year, patching every potential threat to your business is a futile exercise. The need to prioritize is clear, but where to start, especially when CVSS categorizes the...

Measuring and Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations

Unlike other business disciplines (CRM, ERP, HR), cybersecurity lacks clear business metrics that help frame decision-making in language the C-suite and board easily understand. To evaluate which metrics matter most, Tenable commissioned Ponemon Institute to study the effects of cyber risk on business operations. The...

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Beginner's Guide to Observability

Gaining insights from your data requires more than collecting and analyzing metrics and logs. With the acceleration of customer and business demands, site reliability engineers and IT Ops analysts now require operational visibility into their entire architecture, something that traditional APM tools, dev logging...

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4 step approach to architecting your IT monitoring strategy

One of the biggest challenges facing IT ops teams is the lack of visibility across the entire infrastructure � physical, virtual and in the cloud. Making things even more complex, any infrastructure monitoring solution needs to not only meet the IT team's needs, but also the needs of other stakeholders including...

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Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Gartner recently published its 2018 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) where Splunk was named a Leader. In the report, Gartner placed Splunk in the Leaders quadrant for the highest overall "Ability to Execute." Thousands of organizations around the world use Splunk as their...

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The Seven Essentials of an Analytics-Driven SIEM

SIEM (security information and event management) software offers a lot of promise, but legacy SIEMs simply can't keep up with the rate and sophistication of today's cyberattacks. Organizations today require access to analytics-driven SIEMs that combine a big data platform that is optimized for machine data with...

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Selecting the Right SOC Model For Your Organization

As the security landscape continues to change and exposure to risk inevitably increases, organizations are deciding to invest in security operations centers (SOCs) to ensure increased security throughout their networks and applications. A SOC provides centralized and consolidated cybersecurity incident prevention,...

Improving Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training is typically an Achilles heel for enterprises. But there are simple elements that create an effective training solution. Download this whitepaper to learn more about: The security training challenge; Elements of a successful program; Details of Security First solutions....

CISO Confidential: How to Secure a Publicly Traded Company

Successful CISOs distinguish themselves by the length of their tenure in the job, which in many cases depends on their ability to communicate with the board of directors and senior managers - and that involves much more than demanding additional money and people. Download this eBook to learn more about: How to...

Evolving Cybercriminal Attack Methods

As cyberattacks get more sophisticated, there is a growing need for detection and response to address these emerging threats. Download this eBook to learn more about: The GandCrab and Emotet campaigns; The need for more endpoint detection and response; The EDR vs EPP debate....

The Role of AI & Machine Learning in Email Security

Machine learning models and artificial intelligence are transforming the way email is secured. Download this eBook to learn more about: The state of email security today; The role AI and ML play in securing email infrastructures; Why humans need not be a weak link.

Don't Let Your Hybrid Active Directory Environment Cause You Pain

Managing Active Directory can be painful. Native tools have limited capabilities, which leads to inefficiencies, such as managing user accounts or group membership via manual processes or scripts. To make things even more interesting, Microsoft has introduced Azure Active Directory (AAD). It's a cloud-based directory...

Credentials Are A Concern In The Financial Sector

The Q4 2018 Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) report documents 262 data breaches in organisations across Australia. For those in the financial services sector it paints an alarming picture: The number of breaches is steadily growing - and compromised credentials are the leading cause. According to the LastPass...

Network Security Strategies for 2019

OT, IoT and systems targeted by cryptominers - those are among the main network security concerns for 2019. Which technology trends should security leaders follow to improve network security?