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Online Safety Tips for NCSAM: Lessons From Week One
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), which is an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. IBM Security joined forces with the EveryApp team to share one tip a day to make people’s online lives safer. Here are their lessons from the first seven days of the month. Getting prompted for Java updates or iTunes? Cybercriminals love it when you don’t install updates when prompted, and they take full advantage of it.
Rinse, Wash, Repeat: Defining, Planning and Continuously Improving Your SIEM Strategy
Designing your security information and event management (SIEM) strategy can be very challenging, particularly in complex environments that depend on many systems and stakeholders. For security leaders, it may seem as though this work is never complete. Indeed, maintaining an effective SIEM program requires a cyclical approach of reviewing business objectives, planning detection and response processes, and constantly tweaking the system to account for gaps and future growth.
Take a Dive: Deep Network Insights for Deeper Analytics
Security analytics are only as good as the data that feeds them. I’m not saying that advanced analytics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) aren’t amazingly powerful and increasing important for cybersecurity — they are. But unlocking the full potential of advanced analytics requires deep network insights: a combination of the right data, sufficient visibility into the details and context that we care about from a security perspective.
Readying Your Security Operations for 2018 and Beyond
A security operations center (SOC) should be considered a critical component within any modern security infrastructure. Even so, today’s SOCs are placed under increasing pressure to protect against and effectively respond to a rapidly evolving threat landscape. While a current SOC may be tuned to address the threats of yesterday or even today, it may be ill-equipped to deal with what is next.
Does Your SIEM Need More Cowbell?
If the fictional producer Bruce Dickinson were putting together a security information and event management (SIEM) solution, you’d bet it would have all the bells and whistles. But alas, he’s not. Instead, security teams must rely on their vendors to come out with chart-topping capabilities that help detect threats early and block attackers before damage is done. Fortunately for IBM QRadar customers, there’s plenty of cowbell to go around. However, not all SIEM platforms are created equal.
Improving Decision-Making in User Access Review and Cleanup Projects
Organizations these days are very dynamic with their distributed workforces and applications. As these companies grow, their IT teams must perform the increasingly complex task of user access management. Security professionals define access control policies and controls that mandate user access review on a periodic basis. The user access list is sent to application owners for review, and user IDs are disabled or deleted as necessary.
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