Observability data provides the insights engineers need to make sense of increasingly complex cloud environments so they can improve the health, performance, and user experience of their systems. These insights can quickly answer business-critical questions like, “what is causing this latency in my front end?” Or, “why is my checkout service returning errors?”Observability is … [Read more...] about Reduce MTTR with Logz.io’s Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability Data Analytics
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The importance of runtime fields and schema on write or read for better analytics
In an earlier blog post, Log monitoring and unstructured log data, moving beyond tail -f, we talked about collecting and working with unstructured log data. We learned that it’s very easy to add data to the Elastic Stack. So far the only parsing we did was to extract the timestamp from this data, so older data gets backfilled correctly. We also talked about searching this … [Read more...] about The importance of runtime fields and schema on write or read for better analytics
Kenna.VM Premier: Accelerate Vulnerability Management with Cisco Talos Intel and Remediation Analytics
New level unlocked. The next step for Kenna.VM users who are maturing their risk-based vulnerability management program is Kenna.VM Premier—and it’s live. The Cisco Kenna team is excited to release a new tier of the Kenna Security platform designed specifically for customers or prospects that have reached a point of maturity in which they can and want to do more with their … [Read more...] about Kenna.VM Premier: Accelerate Vulnerability Management with Cisco Talos Intel and Remediation Analytics
CrowdStrike Sponsors New MITRE Cloud Analytics Project
Fourteen key cloud analytics for Azure and GCP cloud environments were identified and mapped as indicative of adversary behavior and serve as a blueprint for understanding and writing new cloud analytics. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers a powerful combination of agentless capabilities to protect against misconfigurations and control plane attacks, along with … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Sponsors New MITRE Cloud Analytics Project
Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.Observability ≠ logs + metrics + tracesHowever logs, metrics and traces are, by … [Read more...] about Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Announcing SOC 2 Compliance for Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, and Cisco SecureX
With a rising number of cyberattacks targeting organizations, protecting sensitive customer information has never been more critical. The stakes are high due to the financial losses, reputational damage, legal & compliance fines, and more that often stem from mishandled data. At Cisco Secure, we recognize this and are continuously looking for ways to improve our information … [Read more...] about Announcing SOC 2 Compliance for Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, and Cisco SecureX
SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products
Network security company SonicWall on Friday rolled out fixes to mitigate a critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability affecting its Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22280, is rated 9.4 for severity on the CVSS scoring system and stems from what the company describes is an "improper neutralization of special … [Read more...] about SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products
Get Comprehensive Insights into Your Network with Secure Analytics and MITRE Mappings
A deep dive into the latest updates from Secure Network and Cloud Analytics that show Cisco’s leadership in the Security Industry. The year 2022 has been rather hectic for many reasons, and as the World undergoes its various challenges and opportunities, We At Cisco Security have buckled up and focused on improving the World in the way which we know best: by making it more … [Read more...] about Get Comprehensive Insights into Your Network with Secure Analytics and MITRE Mappings
Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
The Public Cloud and Security Responsibility Across many businesses, leveraging services offered and hosted by public cloud providers such as AWS proves to be extremely advantageous for both improving operational efficiencies, cost savings, scaling, and for security. For AWS customers, Lambda functions are a great example of this advantage in providing a useful way to execute … [Read more...] about Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Four: Secure Cloud Analytics Detections
In part one of this Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX series, we introduced the notion of risk-based extended detection with Cisco SecureX – the idea that a user can prioritise detections into incidents based on their idea of what constitutes risk in their environments and then extend those detections with enrichments from other products. In subsequent posts we’ve … [Read more...] about Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Four: Secure Cloud Analytics Detections