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Think like a criminal: How to land your first security role

Aug 11, 2026 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
On this episode of Masters of Data, we tackle breaking into cybersecurity. David shares his journey from welder to AppSec manager, proving that career pivots are tough but doable. We explore entry points like SOC analyst, GRC, and application security roles, noting that penetration testing gigs are fiercely competitive. AI is reshaping the landscape, making technical skills more accessible while amplifying the need for critical thinking. Networking beats degrees. Side projects and hands-on certifications matter more than credentials.
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What Is the Cyber Kill Chain: A 2026 Guide

Aug 11, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You open an inbox and spot the kind of email every SOC team knows too well, a message that looks routine, lands with a harmless subject line, and asks someone to click, open, or approve something they shouldn't. That's where what is the cyber kill chain stops being an abstract term and starts being a practical way to think about intrusion, because the attack usually isn't one event, it's a sequence of choices an adversary makes before the damage shows up.
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Meeting HIPAA Log Retention Requirements in 2026

Aug 10, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're usually not thinking about retention when the week starts. You're thinking about alert noise, an audit request from compliance, and a storage bill that keeps climbing because logs are piling up in your SIEM, EDR, or XDR stack. Then someone asks a simple question, and the answer isn't simple at all. Which logs must be kept, for how long, and where do you stop using hot storage and start preserving evidence for HIPAA?
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Cybersecurity Threat Detection: A SOC Guide for 2026

Aug 9, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're probably living this already. Your SIEM is collecting more logs than anyone can read, your endpoint tool is firing alerts that look urgent until they aren't, and someone on the leadership team keeps asking whether the organization is “covered” without defining what covered means. That's the pressure behind cybersecurity threat detection in 2026. Teams don't need another disconnected console.
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What Is PCI DSS Compliance? the Essential Guide

Aug 8, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're reviewing payment flows, the bank has asked for proof, and the audit deadline suddenly feels real. The problem isn't usually that the team has done nothing, it's that nobody has turned day-to-day security work into evidence a card brand, acquirer, or assessor can use. PCI DSS compliance is where that gap gets exposed, and it's why security teams that already run SIEM, XDR, or EDR still get pulled into a separate compliance scramble.
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Windows Event Log Analysis: A Practical Guide

Aug 7, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
If you're staring at a flood of Windows telemetry at 2 AM, the problem usually isn't that the logs are useless. The problem is that nobody turned them into a workflow. Raw Security, System, PowerShell, and Defender events can tell you exactly what happened, but only if collection, parsing, triage, and reporting are handled like part of the same control, not four separate chores.
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Access Control Models Explained for Modern Security Teams

Aug 6, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Most guides tell security teams to pick an access control model and move on. That advice breaks down in real environments, because the hard part isn't naming the model, it's keeping least privilege, auditability, and enforcement aligned as identities, attributes, and relationships keep changing across SaaS, cloud, endpoints, and network gear. In practice, the winners are the teams that treat access control as an operating discipline, not a diagram in an architecture deck.
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Best Log Management Tools for 2026 Security

Aug 5, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Enterprises are already spending an average of nearly US$2.5 million annually on logging solutions, and those tools consume 45% of observability budgets while teams juggle an average of seven different tools to manage logs and telemetry (enterprise logging spend and tool sprawl). That's the reason log management tools have moved from back-office utilities into security architecture decisions.
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How Behavioral Analytics Closes the Insider Threat Dwell Time Gap

Aug 5, 2026 By Exabeam In Exabeam
Insider threats often remain hidden during early activity because individual actions appear normal in isolation. Behavioral analytics closes the dwell time gap by establishing baselines for normal behavior, evaluating activity over time, and identifying meaningful deviations before attackers trigger traditional detections.
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PowerShell Execute .Exe: Safe Guide for 2026

Aug 4, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
You're staring at a deployment script, the vendor wants a clean setup.exe launch, and half the fleet needs the same binary with the same arguments. At the same time, your SIEM is already full of PowerShell activity that looks harmless until it isn't, because the exact same process-launch primitive is one of the most common ways attackers move from code execution to real impact. That's why PowerShell execute.exe isn't just a scripting question, it's an operational and detection question.
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