Beaconing analysis is one of the most effective methods for threat hunting on your network. In the world of malware, beaconing is the act of sending regular communications from an infected host to an attacker-controlled host to communicate that the infected host malware is alive and ready for instructions. It is often one of the first indications of a botnet malware infection, so it’s important to spot the beaconing behavior before the infected host can expose data or launch an attack.

Hey there, The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently published its NIS Investment report - a survey conducted on European organisations identified as Operator of Essentials Services (OES) and Digital Service Providers (DSP).

In the first part of this blog series, we saw a brief overview of what a security operations center (SOC) is and how it operates. In this part, we’ll take a look at the typical activities that SOC analysts carry out every day to protect their organization from constantly evolving cyber threats and the skill sets that come in handy in effectively carrying out their duties.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a global curated knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques. This post delves into the history of the ATT&CK framework and provides insights into why every SOC team can benefit from using it to develop threat models and methodologies to protect their organization.

The new Devo eBook, Building the Modern SOC, presents four evolutionary steps for creating a highly automated and efficient security operations center (SOC) that empowers analysts. This is the third in a series of posts highlighting the most important elements of the four steps. Previous posts covered Step 1, establishing a foundation of centralized, scalable visibility, and Step 2, extracting intelligent insights from your data.

Effective cyber security management requires a careful combination of technology, intelligence and expertise. A Security Operations Centre (SOC) is an effective way to strike this balance, providing the full capabilities needed to detect and respond to threats, 24/7/365.

Security operations centers monitor and analyze activities on networks, servers, databases, applications, websites, and other systems, looking for anomalous activity that could be indicative of a security incident or compromise. Alert fatigue is a growing concern among information security professionals. If statistics are to be believed, over 79% agree about its negative effects on their teams.

The new Devo eBook, Building the Modern SOC, presents four evolutionary steps for creating a highly automated and efficient security operations center (SOC) that empowers analysts. This is the first in a series of blog posts that will introduce the four steps and highlight some of the most important concepts.

The 2020 Devo SOC Performance ReportTM presents security professionals’ responses to a variety of survey questions related to people, processes, and technologies within their security operations center (SOC). One of the more interesting topics in the report is the role security automation technologies can play in improving SOC performance and alleviating analyst stress caused by overwork and performing repetitive, mind-numbing tasks, which can lead to analyst burnout.

Every organization is adopting the cloud, but there are some companies that are reaping a larger number of benefits from cloud transformation than others. Making an effort to adopt the cloud is simply not enough to realize the benefits. The organization that prepares for efficiently managing risk will be able to capture a larger percentage of the benefits than one that has not.