Networks
The latest technologies and best practices to secure local, virtual, cloud, and hybrid networks.
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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready
Speakers at last week’s MITRE ResilienCyCon conference had a surprisingly candid message for attendees: You will likely be breached at some point so focus on the controls and response capabilities your organization needs to survive a cyber attack. The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR,…
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Businesses Secretly Pentest Partners as Supply Chain Fears Grow
Cybercriminals learn quickly. In a couple of decades’ time, they’ve gone from pretending to be Nigerian princes to compromising the entire software supply chain, and every day brings news of a new attack technique or a clever variation on an old one. Incidents like those that rattled SolarWinds and Kaseya and their downstream customers changed…
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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations
Every security team craves clear visibility into the endpoints, networks, containers, applications, and other resources of the organization. Tools such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) send an increasing number of alerts to provide that visibility. Unfortunately, the high storage and processing fees for traditional security information and event…
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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions
In the race to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, the product known as network detection and response (NDR) is a standalone solution as well as a central component of XDR. Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is…
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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds
From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS), cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. That means hackers will increasingly mimic nation-state threat groups by establishing a long-term presence inside networks to mine highly sensitive…
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How to Secure DNS
The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email. It is handy…
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Testing & Evaluating SIEM Systems: A Review of Rapid7 InsightIDR
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…
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How to Improve SD-WAN Security: 3 SD-WAN Best Practices
As the modern workforce becomes increasingly mobile and enterprises branch out and grow, software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) have become a popular choice in the evolution of networking. By applying the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to traditional hardware-centric networks, SD-WAN offers enterprises improved flexibility, scalability, performance, and agility for today’s virtual, edge, branch and…
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Top SD-WAN Solutions for Enterprise Security
The development of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has given enterprise administrators flexibility akin to virtualization to manage distributed networks and users globally. Wide area networks have come a long way over the decades, and the introduction of cloud, edge, and virtual workloads only adds to the complexity of managing modern networks. As organizations embrace…
