Keeper is never at rest, continually adapting, updating and upgrading our products and services to best meet our customers’ needs, which is why we’re excited to announce two new cloud data centers in Canada and Japan.
The Corelight Labs team prides itself on the ability to create novel Zeek and Suricata detection content that delves deep into packet streams by leveraging the full power of these tools. However this level of additional sophistication is not always required: sometimes there are straightforward approaches that only require queries over standard Zeek logs. It’s always valuable when developing detections to keep in mind that “sometimes simple does just fine.”
As we enter the thick of budget season, especially in a time where budgets are expected to start tightening, security and IT leaders need to anticipate the discussions they are going to have with executive leaders. This means proactively preparing a formal business case for the security program to ensure funding for upcoming projects.
As cyber threats intensify and the human and financial resources available to deal with them remain limited, there is a growing need for automation in cybersecurity. The intelligent automation of key cybersecurity processes can significantly improve an organization’s posture and at the same time support under-pressure employees by reducing reliance on manual processes.
Security teams need the ability to model their complex organizations by splitting data across multiple tenants while maintaining complete visibility throughout the entire infrastructure. At the same time, they must keep data segregated to maintain security and meet data residency and compliance requirements.
Change detection is easy. What is not so easy, is reconciling change. Change reconciliation is where most organizations stumble. What was the change? When was it made? Who made it? Was it authorized? The ability to answer these questions are the elements that comprise change management. Historically, the haste of accomplishing a task consisted of a sysadmin moving full-speed ahead to satisfy the needs of the business.
Let’s dig deeper into the techniques used by attackers and the mitigations you should implement when ransomware on Azure affects you. By now, we should all be aware of ransomware from the constant news articles associated with this known threat. As we explained in the anatomy of a cloud attacks, ransomware is a way for attackers to make money when they gain control of your accounts through data encryption, therefore restricting your access to the system.
An identity breach is an identity-based impersonation attack in which a hacker exploits vulnerabilities to obtain PII (personally identifiable information), contact information, credit card numbers, and important credentials like passwords and usernames to commit identity theft, identity fraud, or other cybercrimes without the victim’s knowledge. Using stolen information from a data breach, cybercriminals may attempt to steal classified information or money from the victim.
