In this series, we’ve covered some key areas that can help prepare for potential attacks. Preparation is essential. Security policies are essential. Understanding your network and its assets is essential.…
Security Monitoring – It’s All About the Data
Protection Methods – The Art of Data Analytics
The previous blog reviewed some guidelines that laid the foundation for security through understanding your environment and planning how elements within that environment are configured, used, accessed, and tracked. Although…
Culture of Data Protection: What Your Customers Expect
We’ve talked about building a culture, why it applies to all data environments, and some specific types of data protection features you should be considering. Today, we’ll be considering the culture of protection the…
Policy and Controls – A Foundation for Threat Protection
In the previous blog in this series, we reviewed several types of attacks and threats, and some ways they are perpetrated. In this blog, we will become familiar with several…
Related Attributes: NetFlow and Interface Traffic Statistics
For many engineers, operators, and information security professionals, traffic flow information is a key element to performing both daily and long-term strategic tasks. This data usually takes the form of NetFlow version…
Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Attack Surfaces and Vulnerabilities
In the first blog of this series, we became familiar with some well-used cybersecurity terminology. This blog will look at some well-known cyberattack and threat types and how they can…
Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Threat and Attack Terminology
In the first post of this blog series, we’ll cover the fundamentals of cybersecurity, and understanding basic terminology so you can feel comfortable “talking the talk.” Over the next few…
AI Should Not Replace Established Security Practices
Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. Agencies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and…
Log Analysis Tools Review: Syslog, Filtering the Most Relevant Events
Who’s passed more than a weekend going almost blind because something in your didn’t work as it should, and it produced, hopefully, thousands of lines of error messages, almost all…
Balancing Stability and Agility
“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of a state…