These days several enterprises encounter suspicious links and websites that are ready to steal their data. This isn't very surprising as cyber crimes have increased tremendously in the last few years. Last year, Zscaler’s platform detected and blocked 2.7 million encrypted phishing attacks per month. It also found that 32 percent of newly-registered, potentially malicious domains were using SSL certificates.
Organizations may use security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) to streamline security operations in three main areas: threat and vulnerability detection, incident response, and security-operations automation. Teams may use automation to increase efficiencies and maintain control of IT security functions from a single platform. SOAR solutions also allow for process execution, performance gap analysis, and machine learning to aid analysts in intelligently accelerating operations.
Enterprises lose $4.7 million to cybercriminals annually. Worse, the percentage of enterprises suffering from cybercriminals’ attack tactics increased from 57 percent to 71 percent in 2020. Furthermore, 56% of IT practitioners say their IT security infrastructure has coverage gaps. This is frequently due to legacy SIEM systems that are unable to scale with enterprise networks.
Security teams tend to devote a considerable amount of time to investigating warnings that may or may not be "actual" attacks. A false positive occurs when a natural or non-threatening behavior is mistakenly interpreted as malicious. Thousands of warnings may need to be investigated as a result of this. If your security analysts are actively reviewing false warnings, they can spend a lot of time evaluating false alerts before they can start evaluating legitimate threats.
What is SIEM? SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management that collects, aggregates, and analyses activity from different resources across the entire IT infrastructure of the organization. It collects security data from network devices, servers, domain controllers and more. It provides organizations with next-generation detection, analytics, and response. It provides information of utmost importance but the critical decision lies in how to choose the right SIEM solution for you.
Not many things keep company executives and heads of federal agencies up at night like mega cyber breaches do. Mega cyber breaches are not only on the rise, but are also becoming increasingly costly to treat. IBM found that a mega-breach can cost an organization anywhere between $40 to a whopping $350 million. There are two variables contributing to mega breaches, and these variables are spread among most organizations.
While bad actors have become more organized and sophisticated by refining their craft, they are not the only attackers a security professional needs to be concerned with in 2020. There are still opportunistic, less skilled hackers that utilize commoditized exploits. These attack strategies are made possible by leveraging resources that are highly profitable and simple to use, such as simple phishing kits or even ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) tactics.
Are Information security event management (SIEM) and artificial intelligence (AI) a marriage made in heaven or just more sales hysteria in the industry? The reality, of course, is that security and system/application event correlation systems have been around for quite a long time. The term SIEM was first promoted by analyst firm Gartner in 2005. The lingering question is, are the analytics available in SIEM products identical to AI, or is AI only rebranded for sales purposes with analytics?
Imagine a malicious entity or virus that can change and modify over time. This shapeshifter camouflages itself by adjusting its "genetic makeup," its code to conceal itself from those who are trying to destroy it. Sadly, this situation is not just something that you need to think up. While it may sound like something from a science fiction novel, in the world of IT security, polymorphic malware is all too true. Polymorphic malware is more common than most people realize.
