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Part 2: A Collision Course… SIEM and XDR
In my last blog, I talked about how extended detection and response (XDR) has the potential to fulfill an important promise—but in reality, confusion reigns. XDR as a category doesn’t work. At its core, it is an architecture, one that can revolutionize how we think about security operations. In this blog, we’ll compare SIEM and […]
Part 1: XDR and the Return of Stone Washed Jeans
Remember stone-washed jeans? Well, they are back in vogue! (I don’t know about you, but I hated stone-washed jeans then and still hate them now.) History has a way of repeating itself, from politics to fashion—and now cybersecurity has found itself in this loop. So, how did we get here and where do we go […]
Cybersecurity Bad Practices: Expanding on the CISA List
In cybersecurity, we all tend to focus on those covetable “best practices.” But what’s on the other side? The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) got the ball rolling by publishing some cybersecurity “bad practices,” especially those that relate to protecting critical infrastructure or national critical functions. Provided below are the three practices listed […]
How a Unified Security Approach Can Address the Rising Costs of a Data Breach
IBM recently came out with its Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021. One of the main takeaways is the fact that the average total cost of a data breach increased from $3.86 million in 2020 to $4.24 million a year later. That’s a growth of 9.8%, the largest margin seen in seven years. The […]
Overcoming Five Key Challenges in the Way of Effective Security Operations
According to a recent ReliaQuest survey, enterprises continue to deploy an assortment of security technologies across the network, email, endpoint devices, and the cloud despite an overwhelming number of existing investments, yet these tools are not able to proactively defend organizations against the evolving threat landscape. While individually providing valuable security telemetry, these tools are […]
Think Tank: CISOs Discuss Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape
“Hats off to the CISOs!” These were the opening remarks Senior Principal Analyst and ESG Fellow Jon Oltsik used to greet the participants of our recent CISO Think Tank virtual event, a recognition appropriate for today’s security leaders who have faced extreme challenges and adversity over the past year alone due to COVID-19, not to mention the […]
Hurricane Elsa Readiness and Response
As many of you know, a hurricane warning was issued for parts of Florida’s West Coast which includes the Tampa Bay Area. As many of our customers are aware, hurricane readiness is nothing new to ReliaQuest. We have activated our response plans to ensure availability of the ReliaQuest GreyMatter cloud-native platform and continuity of our […]
Security Automation: Let’s amplify, not replace people
Security teams are plagued by two interrelated challenges – lack of resources and an ever-increasing set of tools that don’t speak the same language and require sophisticated skills to manage. Stories of analysts combing through disparate data, manually collating them to discover threats and many times, ending up with false positives, only to restart the process all over again are common. And this constant fire drill mode is […]
How to Achieve Best-in-Class Security Operations
Why you need outcome-driven Security Operations for today’s dynamic business and threat environment Digital transformation, hybrid or remote work, bring you own devices, shadow IT – business transformation is anything but static and cybersecurity teams are facing the brunt of it as guardians of the enterprise. How do security teams, already hampered with budget and […]
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