The cybersecurity industry is facing a shortage of trained and experienced professionals. Schools, universities and organizations are doing amazing things to encourage the next generation to pursue a cybersecurity career. However, there is still a huge cybersecurity talent shortage. With the right training, this can change. It is clear that…

The initial actions an organization takes in the moments after discovering a ransomware attack can have profound implications on how the attack ends. Virtually every security professional will tell you ransomware-based attacks are rapidly becoming the bane of the digital age, but that may not translate into chief information security…

Part of successfully setting up your security operations center (SOC) is defining your SIEM use cases.  Use cases help and support security analysts and threat monitoring goals. What is a use case? A use case can be a mix of multiple technical rules within the SIEM tool, or can be…

If I had polled cybersecurity experts on their way to work on May 12, 2017, most of them would have said they knew a major cybersecurity event loomed. Yet, on that day no one expected that they were walking into the perfect storm — in the form of WannaCry ransomware,…