Defense Technologies Shaping Cybersecurity
Many people assume that cybercrime is a concept that’s only become a threat to businesses and individuals in the last decade. However, the seeds of cybercrime were sown back in the 1970s, before most people even had a computer. As we
A Look at 2023’s Top 5 Cyber Risks – and Strategies for Defending Against Them
Last month we wrote a blog post titled “Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2023,” which discussed the following five trends: Trend 1: Threat Actors Are Preying on People’s Emotional State Trend 2: Exponential Ransomware: The Rise of Double
Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2023
There’s an oft-quoted ancient Chinese proverb that says: “May you live in interesting times.” It seems to resonate with our current situation: geopolitical upheaval, a pandemic recovery, a recessionary climate, and intensifying, ever-more sophisticated acts of cybercrime. If cybercrime were measured
Nine Out of Ten Organizations Fail to Address Security Risks
Foundry, Formally IDG Survey Points to a Major Shift in Cybersecurity Spending While CEOs and CFOs develop forward-thinking strategies around new markets, products, and services to attract new customers, CISOs and CIOs continue to adjust their cybersecurity strategies. Changes to organizational processes
Is an MDR Solution or an MSSP Partnership Better for Your Organization?
In this blog post, we want to analyze the differences between a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution and a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) partnership and how organizations can differentiate between the two and choose which one or both
The Perspective of a Cyber Security Leader – An Interview with Bill Boni
Who is Bill Boni? Retired former Senior Vice President Information Security at T-Mobile USA and Corporate Security Officer at Motorola Bill Boni’s Biography Bill Boni is one of the leading information risk management practitioners based in the USA, with broad experience in all
How to Choose the Right MSSP for Your Organization
We’ve written blog posts on the 5 Benefits of an MSSP, The REAL Benefits of a MSSP, and we had a two-part series on How to Improve Your Security Operations Center. However, because the security landscape is constantly changing, technology
The REAL Benefits of a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
The Advantages of Outsourcing Cybersecurity We’ve written blog posts on the “5 Benefits of an MSSP” and we had a two-part series on “Increasing SOC Effectiveness. However, MSSP’s are evolving quickly to handle more tasks for the client organizations they serve
How to Improve Your SOCs Effectiveness – Part 2
Four Recommendations to Improve the Effectiveness of your SOC The ultimate goal of this blog post is to provide 4 or so understandable, actionable recommendations for improving SOC effectiveness. To get there from here let’s discuss the mission of an SOC
How to Improve Your SOCs Effectiveness – Part 1
How to Improve Security Operation Center (SOC) Effectiveness – Part 1 So many articles and blog posts have been written on SOCs, how they are structured, what their mission and purpose is, and of course how to improve their effectiveness. I