Brian Johnson, Author at eSecurity Planet

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Brian Johnson is the president of 7 Minute Security, which specializes in security assessments, penetration testing and training. He is especially passionate about teaching others about security, and hosts a weekly podcast to help consumers and businesses strengthen their security posture. When he isn’t camped out behind a keyboard, he enjoys outdoor activities with his family, as well as singing and playing guitar in an acoustic duo.

Testing & Evaluating SIEM Systems: A Review of Rapid7 InsightIDR

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June 9, 2022

As companies continue to get breached by the hour, IT and security teams are constantly scrambling their defenses in hopes of eradicating attackers from their networks. The (sort of) good news is that security software and hardware vendors are overflowing with product and service offerings designed to help you. Many of them even promise to […]
Getting Started with Rapid7 InsightIDR: A SIEM Tutorial

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June 9, 2022

As part of our testing and review of Rapid7 InsightIDR, we looked at the SIEM product’s functionality and ease of use in our lab environment. InsightIDR has SIEM at its foundation and scales out to essentially be an XDR solution covering endpoints, network traffic analysis, UEBA, incident response and more. We found InsightIDR to be […]