It’s 5:48 a.m. — only 48 minutes into your 12-hour shift in the security operations center (SOC), and you’ve already investigated three threats. You were prepared for a long shift, but since an analyst on the night crew just quit, now you’re covering her shift, too. How is anyone supposed…

A security information and event management (SIEM) system is an indispensable tool for any security operations center (SOC). It collects events from devices in your network infrastructure such as servers, cloud devices, firewalls and Wi-Fi access points to give operations professionals fine-grained visibility into activity on the network and help…

The system development life cycle (SDLC) is a formal way of ensuring that adequate security controls and requirements are implemented in a new system or application. Integrating technologies and practices into the development of new system and application deployments provides an opportunity to design security into the solution on the…

I’ve always looked forward to New Year’s. As a youngster, a big part of the fun was staying up late on New Year’s Eve and then watching college football with my dad the next day — from the Cotton Bowl to the Rose Bowl to the amazing halftime show of…