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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...

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...

The Importance of IT Infrastructure Monitoring

For a service to be more resourceful and resources to be better utilized, IT monitoring becomes indispensable for business. The information technology the environment is becoming more important every day, as more and more IT is directly related to corporate business. IT professionals are increasingly charged to ensure high availability of environments without any downtime on business and critical services. The problem is that this process of ensuring that no problem occurs in the environment is not an easy task when a monitoring tool is not used for it. When it comes to an IT environment, downtime can be from a server heat issue to a switch port issue. Performing a manual item-by-item assessment to find out the root cause of a problem can be quite labor-intensive and even time-consuming as the larger the environment, the greater the management demand. IT infrastructure monitoring is the process of analyzing and making decisions based on what has been ascertained, making th...