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What is a Managed SOC? Benefits and Variants
Why Use a Managed SOC? The IT infrastructure of a growing business also becomes larger, more complex, and more difficult to secure. Each device produces many different activity and security logs which can provide critical security information, but need to be...
SOC vs SIEM or SOC + SIEM?
A cybersecurity ecosystem requires information to operate. Security teams must compile information from various sources, analyze that information to detect malicious activity, and determine the appropriate responses. The sheer volume of information in the typical...
MDR vs EDR vs XDR: What’s Best for Your Business?
EDR, MDR, and XDR sound similar, but the differences between these acronyms are significant, although not immediately clear for many. If you are trying to determine if EDR, MDR, or XDR is best for your business, you have come to the right place. After a quick...
What is Managed EDR Security? Advantages & Advice
Even before the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched the Shields Up cybersecurity awareness campaign, attacks were on the rise. While high-profile attacks on Colonial Pipeline, Toyota, and JBS...
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) vs AntiVirus
Antivirus technology protected us well for decades, yet we see headlines every week of another big company that couldn’t stop attackers from harming their systems. We might want to consider adopting newer Endpoint Detection and Response technologies, but how can we...
Top 11 Email Security Threats
With the pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt a work from home policy in the short term and more permanently, the reliance on online communication, especially emails, has reached an all-time high — and so have the security threats that emanate from using it....
8 Types of Penetration Testing
A penetration test, or pen-test, is a planned attack on a network, hardware, or software system, intending to expose security defects that may violate systems integrity and compromise valued data. Although there are different types of penetration testing, they all aim...
Five Security Operations Center Models Compared: Find The Right SOC Model
No two organizations are the same. Optimize your security operations center model to meet your needs. The security operations center (SOC) is the heart of your organization’s cybersecurity framework. As the centralized location for threat detection, risk mitigation,...
What is Cybersecurity Monitoring and Why Do You Need It?
As of 2020, the average cost of a data breach stood at $3.86 million. Cybersecurity monitoring is a top business concern, especially in today's world where the remote working trend is gaining momentum. Apart from investing in the right technology, having a...
The Benefits of Whitelabel MSSP for Businesses
An MSP needs to provide security services as well as IT management. Cybersecurity requires a level of expertise beyond standard network and application management, and most MSPs aren't in a position to provide top-quality managed security services by themselves. An...
Top 6 Practices for Securing Remote Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic inspired a massive shift in “business as usual”. Before the pandemic, most organizations did not support telework programs or had a very small percentage of their employees working remotely. In the wake of COVID-19, many organizations are now...
What is Managed SIEM?
What is a SIEM? Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions began as a centralized log aggregation solution. A SIEM solution would collect log data from systems across the organization’s network, making it possible for an organization to monitor its...