It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and in that spirit, we’re offering a number of tips and tricks small security operations center (SOC) teams can use. I started my career working as part of a small SOC team, and working with other security experts here at Logz.io, we’re happy to offer these to small SOC teams who can often use all the help they can get!In the last post, we … [Read more...] about Tips and Tricks for the Small SOC: Part II
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Tips and Tricks for the Small SOC: Part I
Every security operations center (SOC) team is different, and for smaller teams, even small challenges can seem big.I started my career in cybersecurity as part of a smaller team, and eventually grew into a SOC role. During that time, I gained a good deal of knowledge about the dos and don’ts of what a small SOC team needs to do in order to be successful.October is … [Read more...] about Tips and Tricks for the Small SOC: Part I
The White House Memo on Adopting a Zero Trust Architecture: Top Four Tips
On the heels of President Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity (EO 14028), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a memorandum addressing the heads of executive departments and agencies that “sets forth a Federal zero trust architecture (ZTA) strategy.” My good friend and fellow Advisory CISO Helen Patton has done a great summary of the memo in a previous … [Read more...] about The White House Memo on Adopting a Zero Trust Architecture: Top Four Tips
Cybersecurity Jobs: 5 Tips to Help You Get Hired
Before joining Cisco, I spent a lot of time wading through the resumes of potential cybersecurity candidates to hire for my teams. I was looking for individuals from a variety of backgrounds and experiences but finding candidates with zero to three years of experience was the most difficult to find. Many find it challenging to get a job, but I will let you in on a little secret … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity Jobs: 5 Tips to Help You Get Hired
Mental Health & Burnout in Cybersecurity: Tips, Stories and Insights
During the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, gymnastics legend Simone Biles surprised everyone when she withdrew from the individual all-around competition to take care of her mental well-being. Biles later returned to the Games, winning two medals overall. I personally found her contribution to the conversations around mental health just as inspiring as her sporting … [Read more...] about Mental Health & Burnout in Cybersecurity: Tips, Stories and Insights
How to protect yourself from ransomware: five tips
Recent years have seen ransomware grow from an abstract curiosity into a major problem anyone can face — and that hundreds of thousands of people already have. Now a mass industry, ransomware even shows a division of labor, with some criminals writing malicious code and others selecting targets and using the code to infect them, earning a percentage of the ransom. In the past … [Read more...] about How to protect yourself from ransomware: five tips
Top Tips for Ransomware Defense
Ransomware is wreaking havoc. What can we do? Ransomware is making its way outside the cybersecurity space. It’s popping up everywhere from the nightly news to the G7 Summit. Indeed ransomware has entered the mainstream as threat actors increasingly focus their attention on critical infrastructure providers that can’t afford any downtime or disruption from a cyber incident – … [Read more...] about Top Tips for Ransomware Defense
11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment
Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to learn some important AWS security tips. Use Multi-Factor authentication When … [Read more...] about 11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment
Tips to improve your security program in 2021
Insights from the Cisco 2021 Security Outcomes Study With organizations demanding more agility in the way business is run, the security function has an increasing need to keep up with change. The reasons are all well known. Technology change drives business change, and vice versa, in an increasingly dynamic merry-go-round. Security has to underpin this change to support … [Read more...] about Tips to improve your security program in 2021
Getting more value from your endpoint security tool #5: Querying Tips for Vulnerability & Compliance
Thank you for tuning in to the fifth and final installment of this blog series. As I stated in my previous blog posts on orbital advanced search, my father was an automobile mechanic. More specifically, he was a “brakes and front-end mechanic”. On several occasions, Pops would point out the wear on a set of tires and would tell me that either the car was out of alignment, … [Read more...] about Getting more value from your endpoint security tool #5: Querying Tips for Vulnerability & Compliance