No security team — at least no effective security team — can operate successfully in a silo. Even expert teams know the value of leveraging the power of the community to build effective security content, share intelligence, and keep current with best practices.

AWS offers a large spectrum of services and compute. The “shared responsibility” model in cloud presents a simplified structure of organization responsibilities and cloud provider responsibilities. Generally, identity and access management (IAM), applications, and data form the dividing line, but lines blur depending on the given cloud service the organization is consuming. This is true of all cloud providers, including the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.

Did you know that in the U.S. the average cost of a data breach is a whopping $8.64 million? As a business, securing your data must be your #1 priority. Data centers store personal, confidential and financial information about their customers, stakeholders and employers. Criminals can exploit such information, costing businesses millions of dollars to investigate and remediate. The damage is not only monetary — it can have significant impact on your brand image.

Software as a service (SaaS) is a popular type of cloud-based application and one of the most important technologies in business success today. SaaS applications offer companies fast, reliable, flexible and affordable solutions that can help them throughout business processes.

According to Norton’s Cyber Safety Pulse Report, India faced over 18 million cyber threats in only Q1 2022, roughly 200,000 threats every day. Of the bulk, 60,000 were phishing attempts, and 30,000 were tech support scams. For perspective, phishing attempts around the world during the same period counted for approximately 16 million. CERT-In also reported over 2.12 lakh (~0.1 million) cybersecurity incidents until February 2022.

The necessity of a SIEM for organizations and their security teams has evolved dramatically over time. It has gone from edge use cases and compliance to the current form of threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting. As the use cases have changed, so has the architecture. As a result, organizations that have been quite familiar with running their SIEM on-premises are now looking for modern architectures to reduce the workload on their analysts. The simple choice: SaaS, of course.

Firewall logging is an important piece of your advanced security strategy. A firewall is a security system that helps protect your computer or network from unauthorized access. One important function of a firewall is to log information about each connection attempt, including who attempted to connect and when.

SOC analysts suffer from alert fatigue caused by too many data sources and platforms, too little context in investigations, too few people, and too little time. Mature cybersecurity teams manage this challenge by leveraging an integrated set of data analytics capabilities from best-of-breed solutions to establish an end-to-end experience — from data collection to response.