The security posture of any organization is the result of comprehensive security strategies, processes and practices, which enable organizations to be resilient against evolving security threats. This article describes what we mean by “security posture”, including why it matters, and what comprises it. Importantly, we’ll also understand how to assess and improve the security posture.

Not every cybercrime is about, well, the crime. In fact, some attacks are designed to draw attention to a cause, not stolen data or paydays. Social activism has been around forever. Today, it can manifest in the physical world, of course, and increasingly we see social activism in the digital world, too, ranging from minor activist activities all the way to high-profile cybercrime incidents.

In the underground cybercrime circles of the Dark Web, ransomware attacks are a particularly lucrative enterprise. These attacks are on the rise. And they’re disrupting the stalwart IT industry. The average cost of a ransom attack in 2023 was $1.54 million, almost double the previous year’s average. And research we gathered for The CISO Report show that 83% of organizations hit by a ransomware attack paid their attackers. Curious which industry is most likely to pay the ransom? Retail.

Mobile devices at the workplace: this so-called trend is here to stay. In response, IT teams are recognizing their responsibility to develop a secure and high-performance operating environment for their mobile and remote workforce. Mobile-related security risks have increased to astronomical levels in the last year: All that to say: a true organizational security posture cannot ignore the mobile apps and devices that its employees and customers use.

Imagine a world where every cyber threat gets a swift and skilled response. This is the vision of the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES), a program aimed at creating a future-proof cybersecurity workforce. Why is future-proofing our cybersecurity workforce so important? Because the cyber challenges of today and tomorrow require a diverse, well-educated, and agile workforce.

Scientific progress in AI and downstream innovation to solve concrete real-world problems is part of a greater movement toward inventing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Broadly speaking, AGI is defined as an intelligent agent that can emulate and surpass human intelligence. Today, we are already familiar with incomplete forms of AGI: Despite these promising innovations moving from the scientific domain to consumer marketplaces, we are still far from achieving AGI.

Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform, along with the premium products that are built upon them, are open platforms, which allow third party products to query data within Splunk for further use case development. In this blog, we will cover using Amazon SageMaker as the ISV product using the data within Splunk to further develop a fraud detection use case to predict future risk scores.

Data breaches are on the rise. Every day, we see news articles like these: "Major Data Breach Hits ABC Corporation: Millions of User Records Compromised"."GHI Retail's Customer Data Exposed: A Wake-Up Call for E-commerce Security"."LMN Health's Patient Information Compromised: Largest Data Breach in Healthcare History".

In the cyber realm, where digital defense and offense is an ongoing game of cat and mouse, one of the most potent weapons in an attacker's arsenal is the web shell. A seemingly innocuous piece of code that, once embedded in a server, allows an attacker to maintain their access and control. The hidden danger of web shells is their stealthiness and versatility, making them a challenging threat to uncover and neutralize.

“Secure the endpoints!” This battle cry can sound like a meme, sure, but it also highlights arguably the most important part of modern cybersecurity today: are we securing the endpoints? A compromised network is likely to leave traces of anomalous and unauthorized activities that originate from network endpoints.