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SOC vs SIEM or SOC + SIEM?
A cybersecurity ecosystem requires information to operate. Our security teams must compile information from various sources, analyze that information to detect malicious activity, and determine the appropriate responses. Given the sheer volume of information in the...
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...
MDR vs EDR: What’s Best for Your Business?
MDR and EDR are similar sounding acronyms, and the differences between the two may not be clear. If you are trying to determine MDR vs EDR and which is best for your business, you have come to the right place. What is MDR? Managed detection and response (MDR) is 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...
Security (SOC) vs Network Operations Center (NOC)
The Differences Between the NOC and the SOC A Network Operations Center (NOC) and a Security Operations Center (SOC) are both teams that are tasked with ensuring that the organization’s network is functioning properly. A NOC is primarily responsible for ensuring that...
Security Operation Centers. Outsourced or Internal? Which is Better?
What a SOC Needs to Do An organization’s security operations center (SOC) is the core of its cybersecurity program. The SOC includes the people, processes, and tools that the company uses to detect, protect against, and remediate cyber threats to the organization....
What are Insider Threats? How can you reduce risk?
The Insider Threat: How To Mitigate The Top Three Human Risks To Your Company’s Information Systems. We lock our systems and networks down, we install the latest and greatest Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/ IPS), and we have the best physical security at...
