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This post provides an overview of SIEM-as-a-service and the advantages it offers to businesses.

Back in the early days of corporate networking, IT departments typically deployed firewalls to keep employees from accessing non-work related content, like social media sites. While content filtering remains part of a firewall’s job, it’s no longer the primary reason for using one. In today’s connected world, firewalls are fundamental to network security.

We’re thrilled to share that we’ve partnered with Datadog to give you greater visibility into the security posture of your business, all from one central location!

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced new regulations for public companies requiring them to disclose a “material cybersecurity incident” via formal report due four business days after a company determines that a cybersecurity incident is material. This is creating a lot of buzz, with companies worried if they will be prepared.

The new advanced detection analytics package to detect lateral movement Lateral movement is a dangerous threat in the landscape of highly integrated technologies. If attackers gain access to an endpoint, it’s critical for security teams to identify any and all movements they make. To combat this threat, Elastic Security is excited to announce a new lateral movement detection package that makes use of advanced analytics.

Supply chain security issues are not exactly new. High-profile attacks, like SolarWinds in 2020, were a big wake-up call for many people because they brought home just how far-reaching and destructive these attacks could be. The threat from supply chain partners remains one of the most significant risks to security beaches. The SANS 2023 Attack and Threat Report found that 40% of breaches in 2022 occurred through supply chain partners.

1Password is a password manager that helps organizations reduce the use of weak and reused credentials across their teams. Because your organization uses 1Password to store highly sensitive information, including passwords, access keys, and secret tokens, monitoring logs generated by activity in your 1Password environment can be useful, as unexpected patterns of behavior could indicate malicious activity by attackers.

Cloudflare’s SASE is a zero trust network-as-a-service platform that dynamically connects users to enterprise resources, with identity-based security controls delivered close to users, wherever they are. Cloudflare spans more than 300 cities in over 100 countries, resulting in latencies under 50 milliseconds for 95 percent of the internet-connected population globally.

First things first, ChatGPT is awesome! It can help you work more efficiently — from summarizing a 10,000-word document to providing a list of differentiations between competing products, as well as many other tasks.

In the aftermath of supply chain breaches against SolarWinds and Codecov, organizations are focused on protecting their software from malicious tampering and compromise. Addressing the complexity of software development and potential security exposures has been top of mind. The complexity goes beyond traditional application security as the software supply chain encompasses and spans across different services, organizations, roles, and responsibilities.

While perhaps new to AI researchers, supply chain attacks are nothing new to the world of cybersecurity. For those in the know, it has been best practice to verify the source and authenticity of downloads, package repositories, and containers. But human nature usually wins. As developers, our desire to move quickly to improve ease of use for users and customers can cause us to delay efforts to validate the software supply chain until we are forced to by our peers in compliance or security organizations.

Elastic 8.9 introduces the generative AI sidekick, enhanced rule tuning, new lateral detection capabilities, and more! These new features provide security practitioners with advanced detection and analytics, easy to access information, more ways to customize your security investigations, and additional deployment options.

As attackers get more creative in their malicious tradecraft, cloud security teams must be able to keep up with detections that provide adequate coverage against the diverse threats to their cloud environments. Threat emulation enables cloud security teams to leverage their understanding of threat actor behaviors as a feedback loop for developing cloud-based detections and validating their resilience.

As the world experiences the AI gold rush, organizations are increasingly turning to enterprise AI solutions to gain a competitive edge and unlock new opportunities. However, amid the excitement and potential benefits, one crucial aspect that must not be overlooked is data security — in particular, protecting against adversarial attacks and securing AI models. As businesses embrace the power of AI, they must be vigilant in safeguarding sensitive data to avoid potential disasters.

When I started Resurface, my core thesis was that web and API security brought unique requirements requiring purpose-built data systems. Using Splunk at scale for API monitoring was/is prohibitively expensive. Using Hadoop or Kafka requires a nerd army to run at any scale. Few data platforms include a mature web or API monitoring model, so this has to be custom-overlaid at significant expense.

SIEM (security information and event management) migration is rarely easy. However, when budget constraints, performance issues, or new requirements to further reduce organizational risk lead you down that path, it’s often a good idea to investigate ways to simplify the process. Elastic® and Cribl® have partnered to provide our customers with tools that simplify the process and provide ongoing value to your security operation.

This blog is the first post of a two-part series. Part 1 talks about the concept of a nation-state and then provides a high-level overview of Locked Shields — the world's largest cybersecurity exercise — and its increasingly important role in promoting cyber warfare readiness for NATO member states and partners. Part 1 also outlines the steps taken by nations to prepare for a cyber warfare exercise.

Networks are the data highways upon which you build your digital transformation infrastructure. Like interstate highways transmit goods, networks transmit data. Every connected user and device is a network digital on-ramp. When malicious actors gain unauthorized access to networks, organizations must detect and contain them as quickly as possible, requiring security analysts to embark on a digital high-speed chase.

Within the security community of late, the focus has been on “shifting left”, and while that has merit, it is somewhat myopic missing some of the realities of defense in practice. Instead, I propose a simple framework to help guide initiatives that will “level up” defenses and greatly improve security postures wholistically. Some license is taken in terminology in order to keep things simple, memorable, and applicable.

Indusface WAS integrates with all major Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) providers that integrate with Amazon S3. With this integration, you can push logs from Indusface WAS into leading SIEM providers like SumoLogic, RSA, Splunk, and McAfee. Given the complexity of modern architectures encompassing multiple security devices and environments, organizations increasingly rely on SIEM solutions.

In Part 1 of our SIEM blog series, we discussed the state of SIEMs today and how CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale solves five key SIEM use cases while improving security outcomes and cost savings compared to traditional SIEMs. Our conversations with customers have made it clear: SIEM requirements don’t stop at the five use cases covered in that blog. Modern SIEM systems extend beyond log management to deliver full threat detection, investigation and response.

The MITRE ATT&CKⓇ framework holds immense value in the realm of cybersecurity. With its comprehensive and structured approach, it serves as a powerful tool for understanding and countering complex, multi-vector cyber threats.

Decree No. 2009-834 established ANSSI (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) as the National Cybersecurity Agency of France in 2009. In 2013, Article 22 of the Military Programming Law defined ANSSI’s functions and responsibilities, giving the agency regulatory and enforcement powers. Further, ANSSI is France’s primary point of contact with the larger European Union (EU) Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, with Decree No.

The necessity of a SIEM for organizations and their security teams has evolved dramatically over time. It has gone from edge use cases and compliance to the current preferred form of threat detection, hunting, and incident response. As the use cases have changed, so has the architecture. As a result, organizations that have been running their SIEM on-premises are now looking for modern architectures to reduce the workload on their analysts. The simple choice: SaaS, of course.

Threat hunters are some of the most specialized and experienced workers in the SOC. They are incredibly valuable to the organization, but as the 2023 SANS Threat Hunting Survey finds, they’re continually being asked to multi-task and take on other duties. And that’s taking away from their primary job of hunting for threats. How can we change this status quo and help threat hunters (and the organizations they work for) be successful? That’s the million-dollar question.