Graylog Security Anomaly Detection: Metrics Ease the Workload

Everything that makes employees’ lives easier, makes yours harder. Detecting insider threats — both employees and cybercriminals pretending to be employees — has never been more difficult or more important. The cloud technologies that make everyone else more efficient make security less efficient. They’re noisy. They send a lot of alerts. You’re tired. You’re overworked. You’re overloaded.

5 Major Cyberthreats Facing the BFSI Industry

Cybersecurity in the BFSI industry is one of the critical areas of concern today. The banking and financial services industry is highly regulated on the cybersecurity front. Why is it so? The total cost of data breaches in the financial sector in 2021 was USD 5.72 million on average, second only to the healthcare industry. The growing sophistication, severity, and lethality of cybersecurity threats to the financial sector further accentuate the industry’s challenges.

CBDC - How KYC & AML compliances can mitigate the risks

Discussing on the subject of KYC and AML compliance and how it helps keeps risk under control, here is how the new CBDC establishment is to benefit. CBDC’s primary purpose is to provide privacy, transferability, ease, and financial security to individuals and businesses. They also help reduce the expenses of maintaining a complicated financial system, reduce transaction costs, and provide cost-effective money transfer methods.

Cybersecurity Expert Interview: Whitney Champion

My name is Whitney Champion and I'm the lead architect and one of the co-founders of Recon InfoSec. Basically I'm responsible for building and maintaining our security stack, our applications, and also our training platform: The Network Defense Range, or NDR. We're a managed security services provider, and we're based out of Austin, Texas. There are roughly 15 of us and we provide managed detection and response services and training.

Nightfall AI Raises $40 Million Series B to Expand Cloud Data Protection Platform

New funds from WestBridge Capital, Next Play Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and Venrock will be used for hiring, growth, and expanding product integration San Francisco, Calif. – Nightfall AI, the industry’s leading cloud data loss prevention platform, announced today it has closed $40M in Series B funding.

Q2 2022 Threat Landscape: Ransomware Returns, Healthcare Hit

In Q2 2022, Kroll observed a 90% increase in the number of healthcare organizations targeted in comparison with Q1 2022, dropping the final nail in the coffin for the “truce” some criminal groups instituted earlier in the COVID pandemic. Ransomware helped to fuel this uptick against healthcare as attacks increased this quarter to once again become the top threat, followed closely by email compromise.

3 Configurations to Improve Slack Monitoring

With over 200% YoY Growth and used by 100,000+ Organizations globally, Slack has become an indispensable internal communication tool for teams to coordinate their activities. But when it comes to exchanging information and external sources, certain risks are at play that requires more insight and attention. Slack links to various vital systems within many organizations, making it an easy, central access point hackers can use to reach multiple systems.

Mend API Helps Make SBOMs Simple

The proliferation of third-party software components such as open source software(OSS) has triggered a growing need to keep track of it all. Why? Because when security vulnerabilities inevitably crop up in open source components, it’s pretty important to know whether your company uses that piece of code – or whether it appears in the myriad software dependencies inherent in open source.

How to Assess Your Organization's Application Security

Application security assessments are more critical than ever before. Digital transformation is required to meet the expectations of customers in many industries, meaning that companies are looking for software products to help them modernize their operations and meet those demands. However, choosing a piece of software is an expression of trust: by bringing your software into their network, customers are looking to accomplish their goals without letting attackers in.