What is Smishing? | Cyber Linguistics
What is smishing? A cyber linguist explains how text messages can be used as phishing attacks.
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Torq Joins the Cloud Security Alliance
We’re extremely happy to announce that Torq has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. The CSA has more than 80,000 members worldwide and has been endorsed by the American Presidential Administration, which selected the CSA Summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy.
Modern SOC and MDR services series I: What they are, why they matter
Inadequate cybersecurity is a severe issue that challenges SMBs and enterprises indiscriminately, putting them at risk. Reasons for the business impact include: To help businesses navigate cybersecurity risks, many delegate to internal or external security operation centers (SOC).
Jason Chan on How Automation Transformed Netflix's Cybersecurity Posture
Jason Chan, a key member of the Torq Advisory Board, has spent more than 20 years working in pivotal cybersecurity roles. One of his most important positions was leading the information security organization at the video streaming behemoth Netflix for more than a decade. His Netflix team set the bar extraordinarily high, focusing on sophisticated risk assessment and management, and compliance management strategies and approaches.
AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response: Communicating with the Security Operations Center
Learn how to communicate with the AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response Security Operations Center and complete the Customer Engagement Plan.
AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response: Investigations
Watch now as we demonstrate how to use the USM Anywhere platform to handle AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response (Managed XDR) investigations.
What Is Cloud Detection and Response and Why Do You Need It?
Cloud adoption is vastly increasing. Right now, 9o% of businesses are using or plan to use a multi-cloud environment. While the cloud, which refers to internet-accessed servers that are not directly managed by the business, can help organizations scale in a cost-effective manner, they also create new cybersecurity risks.
How to Build an Automation Strategy and Roadmap
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin. These words cannot be overstated in most business fields, especially when it comes to automation. Process automation has the potential to enhance operations in most organizations, but problems can emerge when they don’t plan and strategize around their automation objectives.
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When to Automate and When Not to Automate
Everyone loves automation, and it can be easy to assume that the more you automate, the better. Indeed, falling short of achieving fully autonomous processes can feel like a defeat. If you don't automate completely, you're the one falling behind, right? Well, not exactly. Although automation is, in general, a good thing, there is such a thing as too much automation. And blindly striving to automate everything under the sun is not necessarily the best strategy. Instead, you should be strategic about what you do and don't automate.
The Top Cyber Attacks of October 2022
We’ve made it through spooky season once again, but there is still plenty of scary business unfolding in the world of cybersecurity. October offered several useful cautionary tales for organizations, including a company that took fast action and averted a threat, one that overlooked a security gap for far too long, another that offered a crucial reminder about improper conduct, and one more that … well, we’re not quite sure what the heck happened with that one.