How to Optimize Security Spending While Reducing Risk

Globally, organizations have spent millions on security solutions; however, these purchasing decisions often are not based on fact or data — just hunches, expenditures, and market trends. Senior executives struggle to have complete visibility into their own company’s security posture as well as the current threat environment. There is a lack of comprehensive, near-real-time information…

Why Go it Alone Trying to Keep Your Organization Safe?

The threat landscape is getting more dangerous because it’s increasingly easy for malware authors to assemble elements (just in time) and deliver malicious payloads, and the likelihood they’ll get caught is very low.  Moreover, there’s far too much misleading information about cyber threats out there — for example, even though zero day threats receive plenty…

Rinse, Wash, Repeat: Defining, Planning and Continuously Improving Your SIEM Strategy

Designing your security information and event management (SIEM) strategy can be very challenging, particularly in complex environments that depend on many systems and stakeholders. For security leaders, it may seem as though this work is never complete. Indeed, maintaining an effective SIEM program requires a cyclical approach of reviewing business objectives, planning detection and response…

Seven Steps to Improve Your Security Operations and Response

It’s hard to escape the reality that every day, cyberthreats morph and expand, escalating the need to improve and tighten security operations and response practices. While it may feel overwhelming, there are ways to help level the playing field. Cognitive computing and machine learning are new technologies that can empower security practitioners to focus on…

Just a Passing Fad? Fidget Spinners and the Malware Sandbox

This is the first installment in a three-part series about malware sandboxing. Stay tuned for more information. When the fidget spinner fad hit last year, my seventh grader was immediately on board and quickly became a fidget spinner snob, boasting about bearing quality and spin longevity. My fifth grader, however, eschewed fidget spinners with the…

Using a Free Online Malware Analysis Sandbox to Dig Into Malicious Code

The continuous advancement and sophistication of cyberthreats has gradually decreased the sufficiency of traditional gateway and endpoint security solutions for protection against malware. These approaches were sufficient when malware occurred in small numbers and it was easy to differentiate between good and bad applications. Nowadays, there’s a world of unknown code — a gap between…