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How Do I Check My iPhone for Malware: A Complete Guide

If your iPhone suddenly feels wrong, slower, hotter, or louder in the background, don't waste time hunting for a magic antivirus button. How do I check my iPhone for malware is the wrong question if you expect a desktop-style scan, because iOS doesn't work that way. The right question is, what did the attacker leave behind, and what changed in the device's behavior or configuration? That's the triage mindset security teams use on endpoints, and it fits iPhone incidents too.

Sumo Logic's SOC Analyst Agent: Automated triage for every tier one alert

Sumo Logic's SOC Analyst Agent automatically triages every insight within the SIEM, replacing the manual work that used to fall to a tier-one analyst. Using Sumo Logic's own SOC as customer zero, we found that 100% of tier-one alerts are triaged end-to-end by the agent, resulting in a 89% reduction in median time to triage, from 28 minutes to 3 minutes. In this demo, you’ll see.

The Great AI Escape: What OpenAI's Sandbox Breakout Teaches Us About Agentic Security

Quick disclaimer before we start: I have a strict rule against ambulance chasing. You’ve seen vendor blogs that pounce on a breach headline just to pitch a product and claim it never would have happened with their tool installed. This isn’t that. The reported OpenAI and Hugging Face sandbox incident points to something bigger. Security teams are entering an era where autonomous AI agents can spot opportunities, adapt on the fly, and operate at machine speed.

How Behavior Sequences Reveal Insider Risk Earlier

AI agents don’t hack their way in. They don’t need to. They carry real credentials. They run inside approved systems. They read data, call APIs, and execute workflows on their own. Every action looks authorized because it is. That’s exactly the problem. The risk doesn’t show up in any single action; it emerges in the pattern as behavior shifts and drifts over time.

How to Achieve NIST 800-171 Compliance in 2026

You're probably staring at a half-finished SSP, a pile of policy templates, and a subcontractor deadline that keeps moving closer. That's the normal shape of nist 800-171 compliance work in defense contracting, and a common mistake is pretending it's a documentation exercise instead of a control-implementation program tied to contract eligibility, evidence, and operational discipline.

From 10 Days to Unlimited Retention: How o9 Runs SecOps on Elastic Security

Somesh Agarwal, Senior Director of Security Operations at o9 Solutions, explains how the AI planning platform behind many of the world's largest supply chains consolidated security operations and observability on Elastic Security to gain unlimited threat-hunting retention, accelerate detection engineering, and simplify multicloud security operations.

Mobot: Sumo Logic's natural language AI for SOC investigations

Mobot is Sumo Logic's conversational interface designed to streamline investigations for SOC analysts and observability users. Ask a question in plain English and get a full SOC analyst-style investigation without writing a query. Inside an Insight, Mobot pulls context like the C2IP, ransomware hash, host, and exfiltration data automatically. A six-word question, "anyone else hit by the campaign?", triggers a full investigation across every mailbox and endpoint tied to that attack, with a link to the raw query behind every answer.

Top Vulnerability Scanner Tools Open Source 2026

Running a vulnerability scan is the easy part. The hard part starts when your queue fills with duplicate findings, stale CVEs, and reports that don't tell you what's exposed in production. If you're trying to build a practical vulnerability scanner tools open source stack in 2026, the key question isn't which scanner exists, it's which scanner fits your environment and feeds cleanly into your SIEM/XDR workflow so you can prioritize what matters.

Falcon Platform IOAs Arrive in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to Identify New Threats

Organizations face a relentless stream of emerging threats, from zero-day exploits to rapidly evolving adversary tactics. They need protection that keeps pace with this changing landscape without adding operational complexity. The key challenge here is turning threat intelligence into production-ready detections before attackers can gain an advantage.

Compliance Automation Software: A Practical Guide for 2026

You're staring at a spreadsheet full of screenshots, exported CSVs, and half-finished owner assignments, while the auditor wants one clean answer to a simple question, can you prove the control worked when it mattered? That's the gap compliance automation software is built to close in security programs that can't afford guesswork, especially when logs, cloud settings, identity events, and policy evidence all live in different places.

Black Hat FOMO? Dojo AI Demo

On this episode of Masters of Data, we take you inside the Dojo AI demo we're bringing to the show floor at Black Hat. We walk through the SOC Analyst Agent, Mobot, and MCP back to back. SOC Analyst Agent triages every tier one alert down to the one that actually matters, and Mobot picks up from there, running the investigation in plain English to track down other phishing victims and lateral movement. We also show how MCP pulls that same insight into Claude or Slack. SOC leads tired of alert fatigue and analyst burnout will want the numbers here: 100% of tier one alerts triaged automatically, and 25 hours a week back per person.

Top 10 Log Aggregation Tools for 2026: SIEM & Compliance

You're staring at a growing pile of endpoint, cloud, firewall, and identity logs, and the question isn't whether the data is useful, it's whether you can turn it into evidence, detections, and a defensible audit trail. In regulated environments, HIPAA, PCI, and CMMC don't care that your team is busy, they care that logs are collected consistently, normalized correctly, retained properly, and searchable when an incident or audit hits.

From tool procurement to platform architecture: Rethinking the SOC for machine-speed threats

The gap between attacker speed and defender readiness is widening. Attackers can now move from initial access to full domain control in less than a minute using AI.1 Large language model-generated phishing campaigns are achieving click-through rates 4.5 times higher than traditional methods.2 Most enterprise SOCs weren't built for this tempo and fidelity.

10 Best Dark Web Monitoring Solutions for 2026

Your VPN credentials can show up for sale before your help desk even knows there's a problem. That's why best dark web monitoring is now a security operations decision, not a nice-to-have add-on, especially when leaked identities, session data, and internal documents can move quickly through underground channels.

Managed SIEM Services: Your 2026 Buyer's Guide

You're already feeling it if your team is drowning in alerts, compliance keeps asking for cleaner evidence, and nobody wants to own a 24/7 rotation that burns people out in six months. A managed SIEM services model exists because most security teams don't fail on intelligence, they fail on capacity, maintenance, and triage discipline. The hard part isn't buying visibility, it's keeping that visibility useful while the environment, the threats, and the audit calendar keep moving.

What Is an Intrusion Detection System and How It Works

You're staring at a noisy SOC queue, the EDR console is full of endpoint chatter, the firewall looks clean, and yet something still feels off. That's the gap an intrusion detection system is meant to close. It doesn't replace your firewall, EDR, or XDR stack, it gives you the layer that turns raw network and host activity into security signals a SOC can triage.

Exabeam vs. Splunk: Which Approach Improves Security Operations Outcomes?

Not every SIEM solution is built for modern security operations. While Splunk is widely used for log management, many teams face unpredictable pricing, complex tuning, and slow investigations as environments scale. New-Scale Fusion takes a different approach, It combines behavioral analytics, dynamic risk scoring, and coordinated AI agents to help teams detect risk earlier and move investigations forward faster. Here are six ways Exabeam improves outcomes compared to Splunk.

HIPAA Compliance Reporting: A Playbook for Security Teams

A healthcare security team rarely gets a clean warning before hipaa compliance reporting becomes real. One week it's a patient complaint about access, the next it's an OCR request for records, and the next it's a suspected breach that needs a defensible timeline, not a scramble for screenshots. In that environment, a SIEM is more than a detection tool, it's the system that turns logs, alerts, and evidence into a reporting record auditors can follow.

Mastering Baseline Configuration Management in Hybrid IT

Your audit passed last quarter because the screenshots matched the baseline. Then someone pushed an emergency firewall tweak, a legacy admin account came back, and no one recorded the exception. By the time operations noticed the drift, the environment no longer matched the documentation, and the control that was supposed to prove stability had become part of the problem.

How we brought agentic workflows to Cloud SIEM with the Datadog MCP Server

Security engineers using Cloud SIEM spend their day-to-day investigating signals, tuning detection rules, managing suppressions, running historical jobs across interconnected workflows, and more. Agents are becoming a practical way to navigate that complexity, and we built a set of security tools for the Datadog MCP Server to support them. Cloud SIEM is only one part of a broader cloud security ecosystem, so the Security MCP toolset has to grow across many teams and products.

The New CISO Ep. 148 - Lou Rabon | How Many Tokens to Breach Your Network?

What if your next breach came down to a token budget? In this episode, Steve Moore is joined by Lou Rabon, Founder and CEO of Cyber Defense Group, for a conversation on the modern CISO's world—from how to interview for the seat, to why AI agents are the next insider threat, to research that reframes breach cost as a token calculation.

Suricata IDS/IPS Data in Graylog

If you’re running Suricata to watch your network, you already know how much signal lives in its logs. Graylog provides a purpose-built way to make that signal immediately actionable. The Suricata IDS/IPS Content Pack, available with an Illuminate license and Graylog Enterprise or Graylog Security, delivers ready-to-use parsing rules, streams, GIM categorization, and a dashboard so you can turn raw Suricata EVE JSON events into structured, searchable security intelligence.

How to Implement Zero Trust: Your 2026 Playbook

Your environment probably already looks like this. Active Directory on-prem, a couple of cloud accounts, SaaS apps the business adopted faster than security could review them, remote laptops, service accounts nobody wants to touch, and a SIEM full of logs that don't yet add up to control. That's where most first Zero Trust projects begin.

Hybrid Cloud Security: A CISO's Guide for 2026

A hybrid breach now costs an average of $5.05 million per incident, and that's 26% more expensive than breaches in traditional on-premises-only environments according to AppSecure's 2025 cloud security statistics. That number changes the conversation. Hybrid cloud security isn't a side project for infrastructure teams. It's a board-level risk issue with direct impact on resilience, audit readiness, and operating cost.

What Is SOAR? a Practical Guide for Modern SOCs

Your SOC probably already has good tools. A SIEM collects logs. An EDR agent watches endpoints. Threat intel feeds add context. Ticketing systems track work. Yet the team still feels slow, overloaded, and inconsistent. That gap is where most leaders start asking what is SOAR. Not because they want another acronym, but because they need a way to make the tools they already own work together, reduce manual effort, and respond with less chaos.

Called it (mostly): Checking in on 2026 predictions so far

On this episode of Masters of Data, we revisit the predictions Adam White, Zoe Hawkins, and David Girvin made at the end of last year, checking our own scorecard halfway through 2026. The hits: agents running amok and deleting databases, MCP becoming the backbone for tracking what agents actually do, growing security gaps around personal data, and a collective rejection of low-quality AI content. The misses: we underestimated how fast companies would cut staff for AI, then quietly start rehiring once the agents couldn't cover the work, and we're still arguing about whether token burn is a cost problem or a coming attack vector.

IT Audit: What It Is and How to Prepare for One

Cramming for an exam in school often meant late nights, large quantities of caffeine, and anxiety about potential final grades. Whether studying alone or as part of a group, you probably tried to pull together all your notes and review sheets, so you had the right information at your fingertips during the test. In some cases, these exams could determine whether you passed or failed a course.

Your 10-Point SOC 2 Compliance Checklist for 2026

From Chaos to Compliance: Mastering Your SOC 2 Audit Preparing for a SOC 2 audit usually starts the same way. A customer asks for your report, sales says the deal is blocked without it, engineering already has half the controls in place, and nobody can prove any of it cleanly. The problem usually isn't a total lack of security. It's fragmented evidence, inconsistent ownership, and controls that exist in practice but not in auditor-ready form.

Managed SOC Services: Your 2026 Selection Guide

The managed security services market is projected to reach US$ 87.9 Billion by 2033, up from US$ 41.3 Billion in 2026 at an 11.4% CAGR according to Persistence Market Research. That number matters because it reframes managed SOC services from a niche outsourcing decision into a mainstream operating model for security teams that can't afford blind spots, delayed response, or constant hiring battles.

Detection Engineering: Build Robust Programs & Best

Your SOC probably already has detections. The problem is that many of them don't behave like a managed security capability. They behave like a pile of alerts. Analysts close noisy rules because they have to protect their queue. Engineers keep adding logic because coverage gaps are real. Leaders ask whether the program is improving, and the usual answers are weak. Alert counts go up. Tuning tickets pile up.

NIST 800-53 Controls: Master Implementation in 2026

You're probably in one of two situations right now. Either an auditor has asked for proof that your controls operate, or your SOC is collecting plenty of telemetry but nobody can cleanly map that activity back to NIST 800-53 controls. Both problems usually come from the same gap. The framework lives in policy binders, while the evidence lives in scattered tools. That gap gets painful fast in FedRAMP, CMMC-aligned, and other regulated environments.

DNS Log File Your Guide to Uncovering Hidden Threats

Your firewall says nothing is wrong. Your EDR has a few low-confidence alerts. Users aren't reporting outages. But something still feels off. That's the exact situation where a DNS log file stops being “just another log” and turns into one of the most useful artifacts in the environment. Attackers lean on DNS because every network depends on it, it is often treated as background noise, and suspicious lookups can blend into legitimate traffic for a long time.

Why Low-And-Slow Attacks Look Normal

Low and slow attacks look normal because they are intentionally distributed into small, permissible actions that avoid detection thresholds. Each step appears legitimate on its own, which prevents detection systems from recognizing the overall progression. The issue is not that security teams lack telemetry. The issue is that traditional detection often evaluates activity in fragments. When each action stays below a rule or threshold, the broader pattern can remain invisible.

LogRhythm SIEM July 2026 Release: Accelerating Investigations and Expanding Visibility

The LogRhythm SIEM July 2026 release adds new investigation workflow features, expands automation for administration and archiving, and broadens telemetry coverage across cloud, identity, collaboration, endpoint, and email environments. Organizations running on-premises and hybrid environments often need tight control over data to meet sovereignty and operational requirements.

What's New in New-Scale July 2026: AI Agents Need More Than Guardrails

Exabeam expands Behavior Intelligence to address risks introduced by agentic AI. This release introduces open-source projects for agent verification and telemetry, expanded AI observability with Anthropic Claude support, more than 50 new Agent Behavior Analytics (ABA) detections (bringing total to 90), Exabeam Nova Content Creator, and OWASP Agentic Top 10 coverage scoring in Outcomes Navigator, enabling teams to continuously verify, observe, analyze, and improve AI agent security.

Mastering Data Exfiltration Prevention in 2026

A lot of security programs still treat data exfiltration as a downstream consequence of compromise. That framing is too narrow. The global average cost of a breach reached $4.44 million in 2025 according to Varonis's summary of 2025 data breach statistics, and that cost lands on operations, legal, compliance, and executive credibility, not just the SOC.