Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Companies are under more threat than ever. The rise in cyber threats is alarming: 2021 saw a 30% increase in cyberattacks compared with 2020. Even sophisticated systems with complex countermeasure technologies for security may be vulnerable to attack. Many organizations turn to hackers to counteract these threats. Ethical hackers use the tools and methods of malicious actors to help companies pinpoint their weaknesses and build a more resilient and secure system.

For a long time, security and development were two distinct aspects of programming. As organizations started to leverage software and technology as differentiating factors, the speed and quality of development became more important than ever. Organizations no longer had time after development was complete to address security vulnerabilities. Catching vulnerabilities too late opens companies up to unnecessary risk and can be costly to fix.

Logging is an important tool in the cloud developer’s toolbox. It can be the critical component used to discover why your authentication service can’t connect to its database or why your API gateway is not routing upstream traffic correctly. Today, humans are not the only ones reading logs. Machines are also participating in the logging landscape by helping identify patterns (and outliers) in your system logs.

I am sure many of you have heard the term “cybersecurity is a team sport.” If you haven’t, I say get on the right team. Security is a complex, ever-changing game of skill and preparedness (never chance). As we like to say here at Splunk, it is all about cyber resilience. To best be prepared to win this game, we need the best team. As with any team sport, there really needs to be other teams - after all what fun is it playing by yourself?

Whether your organization is ready to deploy its first security information and event management (SIEM) solution or you’re looking to upgrade to a modern, next-gen SIEM, the number and types of tools available in the market can be overwhelming. This post will help you choose the right vendor and best SIEM tools for your business needs. SIEM tools have been available for about 15 years, but like most technologies, there has been a great deal of evolution and innovation over that time.

The Windows Registry is one of the most powerful Windows operating system features that can tweak or manipulate Windows policies and low-level configuration settings. Because of this capability, most malware or adversaries abuse this hierarchical database to perform malicious tasks on a victim host or environment. Over the last 2 years, the Splunk Threat Research Team has analyzed and reverse engineered some of the most prevalent and successful malware families.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are bad news. And they can affect lots of people, often unknowingly. Chief among the top cybersecurity threats affecting users worldwide, any website with unsafe elements can become vulnerable to XSS attacks — making visitors to that website unwitting cyberattack victims. To secure your website from XSS attacks, you must first know what they are.

It’s no secret that SOC teams are struggling. The main reason is the sheer volume of data they must collect and analyze to thwart cybercrime. The data sources they need to account for include applications, transactions, IoT devices, mobile devices, and more. And the amount of global information created, replicated, and consumed is projected to increase to more than 180 zettabytes over the next five years, making the data challenge we’re facing even worse.

Software vendors have loads of high-value data they need to protect — from customers’ personally identifiable information to the company’s intellectual property — so a data breach can be catastrophic. There’s a lot on the line if these types of organizations fall victim to a cyberattack, including fines from regulators or damage to their brand and reputation.