Ever heard the idiom, ‘the walls have ears?’ This phrase supposedly originates from the ancient Greek story of Dionysius I of Syracuse, where he is said to have engineered ear-shaped curves in walls to eavesdrop on his guests. Today, this phrase has a whole new meaning in our connected world...

Attackers know that people are the weakest link inside a corporation. That’s why attacks targeting employees are on the rise. Being able to detect and respond to user-based threats is more important than ever. That’s why many organizations are purchasing a user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) solution to use...

As more and more organizations move their infrastructure and IT services to the cloud, it is common to find questions about how to address multi-cloud and other hybrid scenarios when designing a security monitoring solution. Although a real SaaS SIEM can easily ingest data from multiple locations in a simple,...

Computing? Check. Analytics? Check. Artificial intelligence (AI)? Check. Networking? Check. Content delivery network? Check. Storage? Check. Load balancing? Check. Third party applications? Check. Robotics? Check. Quantum computing? Check. The array of capabilities that AWS offers today is mind-boggling. A self-sufficient, feature rich cloud environment, AWS makes it very easy to...

In 2018, California recognized that its citizens should have stronger control over their personal information and privacy, and created the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which gives California citizens several rights with respect to their personal data and its privacy. As of July 2020, enforcement of the CCPA began in...

Today’s Remote Workforce Needs Stronger Endpoint Protection Many organizations are adopting to work from home and bring your own device (BYOD) policies which makes corporate users and endpoints more remote and distributed than ever. According to the 2020 Global Incident Response Report from Carbon Black & VMware, 53% encountered or...

By: Abhishek RVRK Sharma, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Sudhir Udipi, Director of Pre-Sales   As we read in the headlines every day, cyber attackers keep growing in sophistication and with automation fueling their efforts. Security teams tasked with keeping the attackers at bay struggle to gain visibility into every crevice of...

Entering the final quarter of 2020, we received excellent news that Securonix was selected as a winner in the annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. We took home “SIEM Solution of the Year" – an award that’s befitting of our efforts over the past year. It has truly been a breakthrough...

The Revolutionary Aspect of SearchMore By Augusto Barros, Vice President of Solutions So you are working on your security monitoring and log management architecture. You look at your requirements and see: The need to collect logs from certain log sources to support your threat detection use cases. Provide advanced analytics...

By Augusto Barros, Vice President of Solutions   Vulnerability management is one of the most basic security hygiene practices organizations must have in place to avoid being hacked. However, even being a primary security control doesn't make it simple to successfully implement. I used to cover VM in my Gartner days,...

By Oleg Kolesnikov, Securonix Threat Research Team     Some security experts are calling the new CVSS 10/10 Windows Zerologon EP (ZEP) Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) the GenZ/Alpha variant of the good ol' GenX/Y MS08-067 (see attack screen cap above for what an actual ZEP attack might look like in action.) As...

By Augusto Barros, Vice President of Solutions   Dr. Chuvakin has recently delivered another great blog post about "detection as code". I was glad to read it because it was the typical discussion we used have in our brainstorming conversations at Gartner. It had a nice nostalgic feeling :-). But it also...