Cyber Security Month Archives

October 30, 2021

Published by Dennis Moreau on October 30, 2021

Zero Trust Working Group forms at Open Cyber Security Alliance

The seemingly endless stream of supply chain exploitation and ransomware disruptions have made it painfully clear that malware is already inside the perimeter, and has been there – undetected – for some time. With mounting pressure to address this issue, a significant number of regulatory and standards efforts have begun to consider Zero Trust as part of the answer. With […]

October 29, 2021

Published by Anshul Garg on October 29, 2021

XDR: A Blessing for SOC Teams, or Another Fad?

The security industry has evolved over the years to combat new and emerging cyber threats, and as we evolved, new products were launched to help security teams. Some of these products have been great breakthroughs – driven by the venture capital and innovation flowing to the security industry – but a lot of them have been a fad as they […]

October 18, 2021

Published by RoseAnn Guttierrez on October 18, 2021

Federated Search

Visibility is an ongoing problem for security operations. Throughout an investigation, many tools are utilized to gather and collect the context needed to make informed decisions. That context is critical to advise security teams on what actions to take and what potential threats require further research. Gathering information across multiple tools and disparate data sources takes time, and time is […]

October 12, 2021

Published by Adam Montville on October 12, 2021

Enabling the Cooperative Ecosystem

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has a mission to improve the actual practice of cyber defense, and we do this, in part, by ensuring that our best practice recommendations (in the form of CIS Benchmarks recommendations and CIS Controls Safeguards) track clear and transparent measures of security value for our users. Most recently, we’ve embarked on the journey of mapping our […]

October 5, 2021

Published by Matthew Gardiner on October 5, 2021

The Increased Need for Security Integration Standards

My experience with security standards began many years ago in 2002 during my time at Netegrity and later the Kantara Initiative. There, I was involved with the creation, standardization, and popularization of the OASIS standard, SAML, and federated SSO more broadly. The problem that we focused on solving — how to transition an authenticated user session (and the associated level of trust) from one […]