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SQL Injection explained in 1 minute

SQL injection, also known as SQLi, is one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities for online applications. It's a common method used by attackers to manipulate and access database information that would otherwise not be displayed or provided to the website user. In this video, you'll learn what SQL injection is and why you should be aware of it.

Cyber Defenders Defending Critical Infrastructure Interview with Aaron Cockerill

Nextgov interview with Aaron Cockerill for a conversation shaped by today’s topics of critical infrastructure and cybersecurity threats. Discussing everything from phishing attacks to hybrid-remote work best practices, this interview offers insight into how Lookout can help both public and private organizations address digital threat prevention, providing relevant context to the cybersecurity world going forward.

Global Confidence: Using crowdsourcing and machine learning to scale your SOC resources

Our mission is to create a force multiplier for SOC teams and security analysts so they can reduce the time to verdict or judgment while triaging new Insights. At Sumo Logic, we take a different approach than other SIEM solutions. We don’t just create alerts and leave the analyst to gather other artifacts to gain context. We associate and group alerts, or what we call Signals, to an Entity (IP, User, Hostname, etc...).

A Real-World Look at AWS Best Practices: Storage

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.

SANSFire: An Alert Has Fired. Now what?

While the security industry spends a lot of time and energy getting more and/or better alerts, comparatively little investment has gone into helping analysts operationalize and contextualize those alerts. This webcast will discuss how a solid foundation of network telemetry can enable not only high-velocity, high-confidence processing of alerts of all stripes, but also a host of other critical security applications, from fundamentals like asset management to advanced techniques like proactive threat hunting. Real-world examples and code will be used throughout the talk, along with practical considerations for operating in an enterprise environment.

The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs in Information Security - Part 2

Information security is an exciting and rapidly growing field for individuals who are interested in protecting users and their data. In an effort to map out the industry as a possible career choice, we recently conducted research into the top 10 infosec jobs based on overall pay grade. We now continue with the second part of our two-part series.

Active Directory Certificate Services: Risky Settings and How to Remediate Them

Active Directory Certificate Services has been around for a long time, but resources for learning it are not great. As a result, it often has misconfigurations that are an increasing vector for attacks. In fact, SpecterOps released a whitepaper detailing a number of misconfigurations and potential attacks and providing hardening advice.