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• Technical controls to prevent business email compromise attacks

  Technical controls are at the heart of preventing successful business email compromise attacks. Learn about those and extra considerations to keep your business secure.  Continue Reading

• 3 post-SolarWinds supply chain security best practices

  Following the devastating SolarWinds breach, IT leaders should renew their focus on third-party risk management. Start by implementing supply chain security best practices.  Continue Reading

• How to manage third-party risk in the supply chain

  From third-party risk assessments to multifactor authentication, follow these steps to ensure suppliers don't end up being your enterprise cybersecurity strategy's weakest link.  Continue Reading

• How to prevent supply chain attacks: Tips for suppliers

  Every company, large and small, must assume it is a target in the supply chain. Suppliers should follow these best practices to keep themselves and their customers protected.  Continue Reading

• 5 cyber threat intelligence feeds to evaluate

  Cyber threat intelligence feeds help organizations up their security game. While the 'best' feeds vary depending on a company's needs, here are five leading services to consider.  Continue Reading

• How to achieve security observability in complex environments

  Security observability is a novel approach to incident detection that goes beyond traditional monitoring. Read on to learn if this emerging strategy is right for your enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Use business email compromise training to mitigate risk

  Effective BEC training can prevent scams designed to exploit the brain's automatic responses. It starts by teaching employees to slow down and make the unconscious conscious.  Continue Reading

• How to address and prevent security alert fatigue

  An influx of false positive security alerts can lead infosec pros to overlook real threats. Learn how to avoid security alert fatigue and avoid its potential consequences.  Continue Reading

• Using content disarm and reconstruction for malware protection

  Content disarm and reconstruction is a modern approach to removing malicious code from files, key to detecting and thwarting successful phishing and malware attacks.  Continue Reading

• 7 privileged access management best practices

  Privileged access is a given in enterprise environments, but it presents many security issues if breached. Follow these seven PAM best practices to mitigate risk.  Continue Reading

• Design a human firewall training program in 5 steps

  Follow these five steps to develop human firewall training that's not only effective at preventing social engineering attacks, but also relevant and accessible to employees.  Continue Reading

• 5 tips to better secure cloud data

  A move to cloud introduces new threats to data. Follow these tips to document, evaluate, test, monitor and harden the new environment.  Continue Reading

• Adopting threat hunting techniques, tactics and strategy

  Adopt threat hunting techniques that analyze the right data, detect anomalies, use frameworks and compare success metrics, combining manual techniques with AI and machine learning.  Continue Reading

• Select a customer IAM architecture to boost business, security

  Not all customer IAM platforms are created equal. Will a security-focused or marketing-focused CIAM architecture best meet your organization's needs? Read on for help deciding.  Continue Reading

• Extended detection and response tools take EDR to next level

  Extended detection and response tools offer new capabilities -- among them greater visibility -- to enterprises searching for better ways to protect their endpoints.  Continue Reading

• Organize a cloud IAM team to secure software-defined assets

  Building a cloud IAM team with the necessary technical expertise and soft skills is key to securely managing IAM in complex cloud environments.  Continue Reading

• The human firewall's role in a cybersecurity strategy

  The human firewall is a crucial element of a long-term, holistic security initiative. Explore how human firewalls can protect your enterprise against attacks.  Continue Reading

• What is bloatware? How to identify and remove it

  Unwanted pre-installed software -- also known as bloatware -- has long posed security threats for computers and other devices. Here are strategies for how to detect bloatware and uninstall the potential threat.  Continue Reading

• 6 remote workforce cybersecurity strategies for 2021

  Remote worker data security has quickly evolved into a top concern for IT security. Here are six strategies to ensure remote workforce cybersecurity in 2021.  Continue Reading

• Tackle multi-cloud key management challenges with KMaaS

  Cloud providers' tools for secrets management are not equipped to solve unique multi-cloud key management challenges. Learn how key management-as-a-service tools can fill the gaps.  Continue Reading

• Building an effective security operations center framework

  An effective security operations center framework combines monitoring and analysis platforms and threat intelligence services to help organizations respond to risks quickly.  Continue Reading

• How cloud-based SIEM tools benefit SOC teams

  It's time for SIEM to enter the cloud age. Learn about the cloud-based SIEM features that can help SOC teams gain a holistic view of their organization's cloud infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Key SOC metrics and KPIs: How to define and use them

  Enterprises struggle to get the most out of their security operation centers. Using the proper SOC metrics and KPIs can help. Learn how to define and benefit from them here.  Continue Reading

• Pros and cons of an outsourced SOC vs. in-house SOC

  Security operations centers have become an essential element of threat detection. Here's how to decide whether to build one in-house or outsource SOC capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Counter threats with these top SecOps software options

  SecOps tools offer many capabilities to address common threats enterprises face, including domain name services, network detection and response, and anti-phishing.  Continue Reading

• 8 challenges every security operations center faces

  Staffing shortages, budget allocation issues, and inadequate analytics and filtering are among the challenges organizations will face as they implement a security operations center.  Continue Reading

• SASE model drives improved cloud and work-from-home security

  Find out how the Secure Access Service Edge model provides increased work-from-home security and cloud access outside of the traditional enterprise data center access model.  Continue Reading

• 8 benefits of a security operations center

  A security operations center can help lessen the fallout of a data breach, but its business benefits go much further than that. Here are eight SOC benefits to consider.  Continue Reading

• Weighing remote browser isolation benefits and drawbacks

  Remote browser isolation benefits end-user experience and an organization's network security. Compare the pros, cons and cost challenges before investing in the zero-trust approach.  Continue Reading

• 10 tips for building a next-generation SOC

  Check out 10 tips to help build a next-generation security operations center with the integrated tools to free security analysts to get ahead of and respond to threats fast.  Continue Reading

• Pair cyber insurance, risk mitigation to manage cyber-risk

  The role of cyber insurance may come after a breach, but it remains a useful element in an organization's vulnerability management strategy.  Continue Reading

• Cyber insurance explained, from selection to post-purchase

  Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you understand what cyber insurance can and can't do -- and what type of policy will do the most for you.  Continue Reading

• What are the biggest hardware security threats?

  Hardware security threats -- and strategies to overcome them -- are evolving as enterprises increasingly install autonomous capabilities for smart building and IoT projects.  Continue Reading

• Choosing between proxy vs. API CASB deployment modes

  Curious how to choose the right CASB deployment mode for your organization? Before you buy, compare how proxy vs. API CASB architectures work to secure SaaS applications.  Continue Reading

• How to use the Mitre ATT&CK framework for cloud security

  Learn how to use the Mitre ATT&CK security framework to keep your enterprise cloud environment -- whether AWS, GCP, Azure, Azure AD or Microsoft 365 -- secure.  Continue Reading

• Note these 5 security operations center best practices

  Understanding the five steps needed to ensure security operations center best practices will help organizations decide whether to outsource their SOC initiatives.  Continue Reading

• Red team vs. blue team vs. purple team: What's the difference?

  Red team-blue team exercises simulate attacks on enterprise networks. What does each team do? Where do purple teams fit in? Find out here.  Continue Reading

• Using SDP as a VPN alternative to secure remote workforces

  Software-defined perimeter has been touted as a VPN alternative for secure remote access. How do you know if SDP or a traditional VPN is right for your company?  Continue Reading

• Benefits of virtual SOCs: Enterprise-run vs. fully managed

  A virtual security operations center, be it managed in-house or by a third party, is becoming an increasingly popular option to save money and improve reliability.  Continue Reading

• Security automation tools and analytics reshape SecOps efforts

  To transition from being reactive to proactive in terms of cybersecurity threats, check out how SecOps teams can use security analytics and automation tools to make the change.  Continue Reading

• Understanding the zero trust-SDP relationship

  Zero trust is a complicated framework that spans the IT stack. Find out how software-defined perimeter can address zero trust's network-level access requirements.  Continue Reading

• How to build a cloud security operations center

  To better protect workloads and data in the cloud, security operations centers collaborate with various IT teams. Learn how to cloud-enable your organization's SOC.  Continue Reading

• How to prepare for a zero-trust model in the cloud

  Zero-trust security in the cloud is different than it is on premises. Learn the concepts and policies to effectively achieve a zero-trust model in the cloud.  Continue Reading

• Evaluating SOC automation benefits and limitations

  Security operations center automation can help address the security skills gap by scaling critical analyst responsibilities. But an overreliance on AI introduces other risks.  Continue Reading

• Planning a zero-trust strategy in 6 steps

  Launch a zero-trust strategy in six steps. Learn how to form a dedicated team, ask questions about existing security controls and evaluate the priority of zero-trust initiatives.  Continue Reading

• Zero-trust implementation begins with choosing an on-ramp

  Zero-trust security has three main on-ramps -- each with its own technology path. For a clear-cut zero-trust implementation, enterprises need to choose their on-ramp wisely.  Continue Reading

• How enterprise cloud VPN protects complex IT environments

  Do you know how enterprise cloud VPN differs from a traditional VPN? Explore how cloud VPN works and whether it's the right option for your hybrid IT environment.  Continue Reading

• Weighing double key encryption challenges, payoffs

  Microsoft's new double key encryption offering brings data security and compliance benefits. Are they worth the implementation challenges?  Continue Reading

• What are the top secure data transmission methods?

  Safe information transfer is a must for modern organizations, but not all secure data transmission methods are equal. Explore your secure data transfer options in this tip.  Continue Reading

• Critical IIoT security risks cloud IoT's expansion into industry

  The convergence of IoT with industrial processes increases productivity, improves communications and makes real-time data readily available. But serious IIoT security risks must be considered as well.  Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity team structure stronger with 3 new roles

  Having the right cybersecurity team in place can help reduce how long it takes to control threats. Consider adding cloud security, third-party risk and digital ethics specialists.  Continue Reading

• 7 SOC automation use cases to augment security operations

  Implementing SOC automation can have far-reaching benefits for an organization's infosec program and security culture. Learn how by exploring these seven use cases of AI in SOCs.  Continue Reading

• 5 key enterprise SOC team roles and responsibilities

  Review the key players in the 2020 SOC and their specific responsibilities, as well as best practices to ensure effective teamwork for a secure organization.  Continue Reading

• Format-preserving encryption use cases, benefits, alternative

  With format-preserving encryption, a ciphertext's format is the same as its plaintext's. Read up on the benefits of this cryptography method, NIST FPE methods, vendors and more.  Continue Reading

• Top 4 firewall-as-a-service security features and benefits

  Firewall-as-a-service offerings implement security policies across consolidated traffic headed to all locations. Learn about four security features and benefits of FWaaS.  Continue Reading

• 3 steps to secure codebase updates, prevent vulnerabilities

  Codebase updates are critical, but what about when they introduce vulnerabilities? These three steps will help app developers secure codebase updates and keep their apps safe.  Continue Reading

• Combination of new, old tech driving remote access security

  The massive shift to home-based workforces left IT vulnerable to unexpected threats, but organizations are combining old and new strategies to maintain remote access security.  Continue Reading

• How cloud security posture management protects multi-cloud

  Improve control plane security at your organization by integrating a cloud security posture management tool into your existing multi-cloud strategy.  Continue Reading

• Infrastructure as code's security risks and rewards

  Infrastructure as code can yield some exciting security benefits for enterprises, but they each come with drawbacks. Learn more about the most critical IaC security impacts.  Continue Reading

• The 7 elements of an enterprise cybersecurity culture

  An effective 'human firewall' can prevent or mitigate many of the threats enterprises face today. Adopt these seven elements of a culture of cybersecurity to defend against risks.  Continue Reading

• 10 RDP security best practices to prevent cyberattacks

  Securing remote connections is critical, especially in a pandemic. Enact these RDP security best practices at your organization to prevent ransomware, brute-force attacks and more.  Continue Reading

• How to shift from DevOps to DevSecOps

  A successful DevSecOps rollout requires software developers to be equipped with the proper security skills and tools. Learn how to transition smoothly from DevOps to DevSecOps.  Continue Reading

• How to start an enterprise bug bounty program and why

  Incentivizing researchers for finding software vulnerabilities can be advantageous for vendors and participants. Here's what to know before starting a bug bounty program.  Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of biometric authentication

  Hoping for a passwordless future? Multifactor authentication using biometrics may be the answer. Consider the pros, cons and implications of biometric authentication before deploying.  Continue Reading

• How to mitigate an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability

  Exploiting an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability can result in the inadvertent execution of unauthorized HTTP requests. Learn how to defend web environments from this attack.  Continue Reading

• 6 persistent enterprise authentication security issues

  Some authentication factors are considered more secure than others but still come with potential drawbacks. Learn about the most common enterprise authentication security issues.  Continue Reading

• As network security analysis proves invaluable, NDR market shifts

  IT infrastructure threat detection and response have emerged as critical elements of enterprise cybersecurity as network security analysis proves invaluable to protecting data.  Continue Reading

• Cloud workload protection platform security benefits, features

  VMs and cloud environments make the task of protecting workloads more difficult than ever. Can a cloud workload protection platform help your organization solve the problem?  Continue Reading

• Follow 3 key steps to improve multi-cloud monitoring

  Successful multi-cloud monitoring anticipates security vulnerabilities unique to operating across several environments. Follow these steps to improve multi-cloud security.  Continue Reading

• Post-pandemic cybersecurity: Lessons learned

  Pandemic lockdowns provided companies with valuable cybersecurity experience. Here's how to make sure post-pandemic cybersecurity operations are prepared for a second wave.  Continue Reading

• To face modern threats, using AI for cybersecurity a necessity

  As cyberattacks grow in complexity, using AI for cybersecurity is required to stay ahead of threats. Here's how to integrate AI into security processes and avoid potential risk.  Continue Reading

• Enhance your cloud threat protection with 5 tools, and more

  Explore the best tools and tactics; you'll need the most effective arsenal available to counteract the attackers gunning for your cloud-based workloads and apps.  Continue Reading

• 5 steps to help prevent supply chain cybersecurity threats

  Follow five steps to lower the risk of supply chain cybersecurity threats, from creating third-party risk management teams to using blockchain and hyperledger and more.  Continue Reading

• Navigate the DOD's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

  The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requires DOD contractors to achieve baseline security standards. Explore the five levels of certification and how to achieve them.  Continue Reading

• How IAM systems support compliance

  IAM is a key component of any security strategy, but its role in regulatory compliance is just as crucial. Read up on features and processes to make IAM work for your enterprise.  Continue Reading

• 3 must-ask post-pandemic questions for CISOs

  The worldwide health pandemic has created multiple challenges for today's CISOs and their security teams. Ask these three questions to stay safe in a post-pandemic workplace.  Continue Reading

• Privacy-preserving machine learning assuages infosec fears

  Implementing privacy-preserving machine learning controls, such as federated learning and homomorphic encryption, can address top cloud security and privacy concerns. Learn how.  Continue Reading

• Istio service mesh security benefits microservices, developers

  Learn more about Istio service mesh security features and how the open source technology can enable developers to better run, control and secure a distributed microservices architecture.  Continue Reading

• Unpack the use of AI in cybersecurity, plus pros and cons

  The use of AI in cybersecurity is now under renewed scrutiny as its popularity rises. Discover the pros and cons of machine learning and AI for incident response.  Continue Reading

• In biometrics, security concerns span technical, legal and ethical

  Biometrics are increasingly being used for enterprise security, but they are not without technical, legal and ethical concerns, which teams must address before deployment.  Continue Reading

• 3 key identity management tips to streamline workflows

  Organizations must audit IAM processes to ensure that opportunities to streamline workflows are not missed. Use these identity management tips to get started.  Continue Reading

• How security teams can prevent island-hopping cyberattacks

  Learn how to prevent island-hopping cyberattacks to keep hackers from gaining the confidence of a phishing victim who could then accidentally commit corporate financial fraud.  Continue Reading

• How to ensure security for 3 types of digital identity

  Enterprise identity and access management strategies must include processes for managing and securing three types of digital identity. Learn how.  Continue Reading

• Benefits of open source container vulnerability scanning

  Containers have revolutionized app development but pose many security challenges. Uncover how container vulnerability scanning can help and why to consider open source tools.  Continue Reading

• 4 essential identity and access management best practices

  Now is the time to shore up the who, what and where of network identities. Adopt these four critical identity and access management best practices to bolster your infosec program.  Continue Reading

• How to fortify IoT access control to improve cybersecurity

  Security technology is still playing catch-up with the new risks and attack vectors associated with IoT. Learn how to improve IoT access control and identity management here.  Continue Reading

• 12 Microsoft 365 security best practices to secure the suite

  Migrating to or operating cloud-based Microsoft 365 can bring with it a host of problems and misconfigurations. Check out 12 best practices to tighten Microsoft 365 security.  Continue Reading

• 5 steps to determine residual risk during the assessment process

  Even the best security controls have data management gaps that create risk. Here are steps to identify and offset residual risk during an assessment.  Continue Reading

• Top 6 cloud security analytics use cases

  Security analytics use cases vary from fraud detection to threat intelligence analysis. Learn how deploying this technology in the cloud can improve enterprise infosec programs.  Continue Reading

• AI threat intelligence is the future, and the future is now

  Threat intelligence services and tools get a boost from advanced technology like AI and, specifically, machine learning. Learn how that works.  Continue Reading

• Uncover and overcome cloud threat hunting obstacles

  You can be an effective cyberthreat hunter even if your organization's assets are in the cloud. Know the likely obstacles you'll face, then learn how to surmount them.  Continue Reading

• Top 2 post-COVID-19 CISO priorities changing in 2020

  CISO priorities for 2020 were upended when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Learn two ways forward-thinking CISOs are planning to deal with the new normal.  Continue Reading

• How to balance secure remote working with on-site employees

  Post-pandemic, organizations must strike the right balance between on-site and remote work security. Here's how to make sure your cybersecurity program is prepared.  Continue Reading

• Comparing single cloud vs. multi-cloud security challenges

  A multi-cloud environment is not inherently more secure than a single cloud. Learn how to choose between single cloud vs. multi-cloud for your organization from a security perspective.  Continue Reading

• How to protect the network from ransomware in 5 steps

  Stronger network security could be the key to preventing a ransomware infection. Follow these five steps to protect your network from ransomware.  Continue Reading

• Prevent spyware through user awareness and technical controls

  Find out how to protect devices from spyware and educate users to avoid the most common traps from which spyware infections might come, including phishing attacks and rogue apps.  Continue Reading

• How data loss prevention strategies benefit from UBA

  Data loss prevention strategies require unique insight into user activity. Can user behavior analytics capabilities benefit threat management and breach detection?  Continue Reading

• Identifying common Microsoft 365 security misconfigurations

  Microsoft 365 security problems can double the time it takes to contain a breach, according to a new survey. Check out best practices and operational strategies to fix them.  Continue Reading

• How can security benefit from cyberthreat intelligence?

  Cyberthreat intelligence is essential to understand common external-facing risks. Learn how to find the right threat intelligence feed and how the data can benefit cybersecurity.  Continue Reading

• SSL certificate best practices for 2020 and beyond

  SSL/TLS security is continuously improving, and there are steps site owners should take to ensure the safety of their SSL certificates, websites and users. Read on to learn more.  Continue Reading