Security News

Week in review: Mass iPhone hacking, SSL VPNs under attack, SOC analysts overwhelmed
2019-09-01 14:45

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Cybersecurity in the age of the remote workforce Users can be set up for a productive experience while...

SOCs still overwhelmed by alert overload, struggle with false-positives
2019-08-29 04:00

Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts continue to face an overwhelming number of alerts each day that are taking longer to investigate, leading five times as many SOC analysts this year to...

Sherlock in the SOC: Leveraging Security Knowledge in a Behavior-Based Approach
2019-08-16 11:45

“There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.” read more

SOC-as-a-Service promises threat protection in a world of scarce resources
2019-08-13 05:45

Despite more than a few decades’ worth of technological advancement and millions of dollars’ worth of research, cyber threats continue to flourish. The situation has been wreaking havoc—and...

The persistent struggle to improve SOC productivity reveals the need for newer SIEM technologies
2019-08-05 04:30

On average, security personnel in U.S. enterprises waste approximately 25 percent of their time chasing false positives because security alerts or indicators of compromise (IOCs) are erroneous, a...

The Future SOC: Harmonizing Detection and Response
2019-07-12 14:48

The success of security operations centers will depend on how well they blend key technologies - including detection, user behavior analytics and orchestration, says Haiyan Song of Splunk, who...

Optiv Security tailored offerings transform traditional SOCs into Advanced Fusion Centers
2019-07-11 01:45

Enterprise digital transformation efforts combined with advanced and innovative cybersecurity attacks have left many organizations’ security operations teams overwhelmed by an inordinately high...

In the Detection and Response Era, a Unified SOC is the Path to Success
2019-07-09 20:09

This may be cheesy, and half of you reading this may not have been alive at the time to remember, but President Ronald Reagan’s appeal more than 30 years ago to “tear down this wall” is advice...