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What’s Required to Start Threat Hunting?

A top threat hunting service takes a three-pronged approach to attack detection.  Along with skilled security professionals, it includes two other components necessary for successful hunting: vast data and powerful analytics. 1. Human Capital Every new generation of security technology is able to detect a greater number of advanced threats — but the most effective detection engine is still the human brain. Automated detection techniques are inherently predictable, and today’s attackers are very aware of this and develop techniques to bypass, evade or hide from automated security tools.  Human threat hunters are an absolutely critical component in an effective threat hunting service. Since proactive hunting depends on human interaction and intervention, success depends on who is hunting through the data. Intrusion analysts  must have the expertise to identify sophisticated targeted attacks , and they also must have the necessary security resources to respond to any discovery of
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Types of Cybersecurity Attacks

Denial-of-Service (DoS)  Imagine you're sitting in traffic on a one-lane country road, with cars backed up as far as the eye can see. Normally this road never sees more than a car or two, but a county fair and a major sporting event have ended around the same time, and this road is the only way for visitors to leave town. The road can't handle the massive amount of traffic, and as a result, it gets so backed up that pretty much no one can leave.  That's essentially what happens to a website during a  denial-of-service  (DoS) attack. If you flood a website with more traffic than it was built to handle, you'll overload the website's server and it'll be nigh-impossible for the website to serve up its content to visitors who are trying to access it.  This can happen for innocuous reasons, of course, say if a massive news story breaks and a newspaper's website gets overloaded with traffic from people trying to find out more. But often, this kind of t
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Reducing Third-Party Risk

Countless organizations are transforming the way they do business through digital processes. They’re moving data from internal networks to the cloud, and gathering more information than ever before. Making data easier to collect, store, and analyze is certainly changing many industries for the better, but this free flow of information comes with a price. It means that to assess the risk of our own organization, we also have to consider the security of our partners, vendors, and other third parties. Unfortunately, many of the most common third-party risk management practices employed today are lagging behind security requirements. Static assessments of risk, like financial audits and security certificate verifications, are still important, but they often lack context and aren’t always timely. There’s a need for a solution that offers real-time context on the actual threat landscape. Threat intelligence is one way to do just that. It can provide transparency into the threat envi
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How to Enhance Defense in Depth with Cybersecurity Monitoring

Your defense in depth strategy exists so that you always have a “back up” in case one control fails to protect you. However, you can’t rely on that back up control to continuously protect your information. Since attackers continuously evolve their strategies, the control that works today may not work tomorrow. For example, if your host-based firewall requires an update, you have the network-based firewall as an additional security measure. While the network-based firewall maintains your  security posture  in the short term, leaving the host-based firewall unpatched means that you’ve compromised your defense in depth strategy by leaving one of the layers vulnerable. If attackers find a vulnerability in the network-based firewall before you patch the host-based firewall, you face a greater chance of being breach. Cyber threat monitoring helps provide visibility into these weaknesses so that you can maintain your defense in depth strategy continuously. Maybe you didn’t know that t
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9 Unique Reasons to Outsource Cyber Security Monitoring

Due to the rising security breaches on many companies, data security against unwanted intrusion is on every business owner’s mind. No matter the size of your organization, IT security is the biggest challenge that the organizations face. When it comes to medium or small enterprise the impact of security threat can be  more severe. Security hackers pose special   threats to computernetwork security . They are technology and networking experts and they use their insider information to grant themselves access to other people’s computer networks. They do it without permission. Our modern computing environment is always an open one and the hackers with great knowledge of system and computing can easily get their hands on very sensitive information. This is a major problem for businesses now and they can solve it easily when you  outsource cyber security monitoring.  Your important and sensitive information should be kept private and secured. One of the biggest risks to computers,
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A DEFINITION OF CONTINUOUS SECURITY MONITORING

Continuous security monitoring i s a type of security solution that automates security monitoring across various sources of security information. Continuous security monitoring solutions provide real-time visibility into an organization’s security posture, constantly monitoring for cyber threats, security misconfigurations, or other vulnerabilities. Continuous security monitoring is essential today because organizations depend on technology and data to complete key business processes and transactions. Companies also have a greater number of independent contractors and remote workers on staff, increasing their attack surface and adding channels for data loss. Companies may have strict policies in place, but employees continue to use applications and devices that are not approved and put data at risk. HOW CONTINUOUS SECURITY MONITORING WORKS Continuous security monitoring providers  provide real-time visibility of users and their devices when they attempt to connect to or wor
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THE BENEFITS OF THREAT MONITORING

Threat monitoring refers to a type of solution or process dedicated to continuously monitoring across networks and/or endpoints for signs of security threats such as attempts at intrusions or data exfiltration. Threat monitoring gives technology professionals visibility into the network and the actions of the users who access it, enabling stronger data protection as well as preventing or lessening of the damages caused by breaches. Today companies employ independent contractors, remote workers, and staff who use their own devices for work, posing additional risk to the company’s data and sensitive information and driving the need for threat monitoring at enterprises. HOW THREAT MONITORING WORKS Threat monitoring involves continually analyzing and evaluating security data in order to identify cyber attacks and data breaches. Threat monitoring solutions collect and correlate information from network sensors and appliances as well as endpoint agents and other security technologi
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