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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...
12 Benefits of Outsourced Security Services
Outsourced security services is an umbrella term that covers a number of different types of service providers. It includes managed security service providers (MSSPs), managed detection and response (MDR), managed SOC services and similar services where an...
What is MSSP? The importance of the Managed Security Service Provider to the organization.
A Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) is an organization like Clearnetwork that provides outsourced security services for its customers. The rapid evolution of the cybersecurity threat landscape and the growing need for cybersecurity expertise means that many...
Managed 24/7 SOC – Why is it a necessity?
What is a SOC? A Security Operations Center (SOC) is the core of an organization’s cybersecurity program. It is responsible for identifying and responding to cybersecurity incidents within the network. An organization’s SOC is composed of a few interrelated pieces:...
The Top 11 Benefits of Managed Security Services Providers
A Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) like Clearnetwork is an external organization that handles some or all of an organization’s cybersecurity. Partnering with an MSSP allows an organization to take advantage of a number of different advantages compared to...
Top 10 Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are designed to protect an organization from ongoing cyber threats. However, not all of these systems work in the same way or have the same objectives. Important distinctions between types of...
SIEM vs MSSP vs MDR vs SOCaaS
Understanding Managed Security Services Managed security services come in a wide range of potential offerings. The available services can vary greatly from provider to provider, even if they are advertised as the same thing. Understanding what to expect from each type...
Introduction to Threat Hunting – What, Why and How
Many organizations take a reactive approach to cybersecurity. Often, the first indication that they have that something is happening on their network is when they receive an alert of an attack in progress. However, by this point, it may already be too late to stop the...
HIPAA Compliance – What is HIPAA and how do I meet compliance?
What is HIPAA Compliance? HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Title II of the Act sets the physical, network, and process security standards required of organizations that handle protected health information (PHI). HIPAA compliance is...
Prevention vs Detection-based Security Approach
Why You Should Add Detection To Your Security Strategy A number of different approaches to cyber defense exist. However, they can generally be classified into prevention-based and detection-based strategies. In a prevention-based strategy, an organization does its...
MDR Security Services. Managed Detection Response Evaluators Guide.
Executive Summary Partnering with a third-party provider for managed security services is a smart way for small to mid-sized businesses with limited security resources to deploy a detection-based security strategy that meets their internal needs, compliance...