The Essential Guide to Security
Organizations optimize their people, process and technology around security with a nerve center. The Splunk platform acts as this nerve center by bringing multiple cybersecurity areas, and others outside of …
Splunk Security Use Case: Detecting Unknown Malware
Ransomware is a specific type of malware that holds data “hostage,” and is especially disruptive to business due to its data-destructive nature. The ransomware threat doesn’t need to keep security …
Ransomware 101: Three Keys Ways to Get Started Combating Ransomware
In order to combat ransomware effectively, there are three key fundamentals that can help reduce the risk of negative impact or damage from ransomware threats: End-to-end posture assessment Efficiently investigate …
Four Easy Ways Central Logging Improves Security Posture
Most cybersecurity tools are designed to help identify, alert on, and in some cases prevent a particular type of malicious activity. Current technologies send alerts and may even prevent specific …
A Short Primer of GDPR Essentials
On May 25, 2018, per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations with business ties to the European Union will need to comply to GDPR standards or face fines. The …
A Layman’s Guide on How to Operate Your SIEM Under the GDPR
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, or “GDPR”, takes effect on 25 May 2018 without the need for EU Member States to enact it into local law. …
How Machine Data Supports GDPR Compliance
In 2012, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, which established a set of data protection principles that each member state adopted into local …
A Guide to Fraud in the Real World
Protecting against fraud is a growing problem from online services, user accounts, healthcare providers, retailers, education and financial institutions, and more. The real questions then are How does Telefonica, a …
The Five Essential Capabilities of an Analytics-Driven SOC
As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks accelerates, security operations centers (SOCs) have become the focal point for consolidating the necessary people, process and technology for an organization’s defense and …
Gartner Report: 2017 Critical Capabilities for SIEM
SIEM solution purchases are primarily driven by threat detection use cases. Security and risk management leaders buying a SIEM solution should leverage this research to evaluate their use cases and …
