Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Distributed Network Monitoring &
Security for Dummies

Advanced cyber threats, cloud computing, and exploding traffic volumes pose new challenges for those who manage network security and performance. Having complete network visibility is one key to improvement. But what exactly is network visibility and how does it help an organization keep its defenses strong and optimize performance?

Download Distributed Network Monitoring & Security For Dummies to discover how to design and use a visibility architecture so you can capture and intelligently process all relevant traffic moving across your network. Learn how to eliminate blind spots, identify potential cyber security threats, and accelerate remediation of network vulnerabilities and gaps.

Four Tips To Secure Home/Office Computer Systems

Whether your company is mostly back in the office or still working from home, what people don't know can still hurt them. Here's four simple tips to share with your organization at large to help secure their devices — no matter where the "office" is.

Pinpoint Intrusions with Context-Aware Application Intelligence

Collecting security-related information is one thing. Getting the most benefit from that data is another. Security analysts get lots of alerts from their security tools which forces them to prioritize those to investigate. When additional context is added to the data, it makes it easier to see exactly what traffic needs a closer look.

Context-aware data processing is about understanding the context of users, devices, locations, and applications. It involves intelligently filtering traffic based on specific parameters and removing duplicate packets before it reaches a security tool. Application intelligence and context-aware processing is critical when it comes to quickly isolating and resolving network security issues.

Block 80% of Attackers at the Source With Threat Intelligence

Hackers may be tenacious, but they aren't perfect. Attacks are preventable — but alert fatigue is a critical impediment. SecOps teams work tirelessly to prevent attacks, but the sheer volume of SIEM alerts is immense, and vital clues are often missed.

You need to reduce your attack surface — and that means stopping attackers from ever entering your network. While bad actors may circumvent firewall filters, threat intelligence gateways offer a more resilient defense — blocking threats by location, not behavior.

SANS Report: Making Revolutionary Gains in Security on Your Endpoints

There is an old saying about network security: “The internet is actually pretty secure — it is all those vulnerable endpoints that are the problems.”

You need to keep applications, customers, and data safe. That means taking control of a rapidly expanding attack surface and stopping attackers from gaining a foothold in your network. Securing network endpoints is a complex problem, but it is not unsolvable. Read SANS's latest report to learn more.

Four Tips to Secure Your Mobile Devices

We live in a connected world. Your teammates can span cities, countries, and continents, but attackers are always looking for potential footholds, and mobile devices can offer an easy point of ingress when users are careless.

Here are some common sense tips for you to share with your organization. Remember, security is a team effort!

Improve Response Times by Showing Your SIEM What to Look For

Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are the backbone of any security team. But amidst a daily flood of logs, alerts, and notifications, it can be difficult to correlate all that activity with an actual attack. That's why it's so important to simulate attacks on your network before your tools face the real thing. Breach and attack simulation makes it easy to pinpoint indicators of compromise (IoCs) and customize SIEM alerts, so you can spend less time dealing with alert fatigue, and more time responding to threats.

Stop DDoS Attacks and Tool Strain with Advanced Packet Processing

A common ploy of cybercriminals is to overload a network with more traffic than it can handle. This makes it easier for them to take advantage of overburdened tools as your network infrastructure works overtime to process abnormally high traffic volumes.

Advanced packet processing helps stop DDoS attacks and alleviate tool strain by ensuring you don't use valuable resources looking at the irrelevant traffic that hackers send. Reducing the amount of redundant data sent to security tools with de-duplication improves efficiency and integrity. Trimming unnecessary packet data also ensures security tools only receive the information they really need so they can do what they do best — uncover threats and stop cybercriminals in their tracks.

Breach and Attack Simulation For Dummies

Let’s face it: simply buying and plugging in a new security device is not going to magically make problems disappear. You don’t need another defensive tool — you need to know how effective the tools you have actually are.

Download Breach and Attack Simulation For Dummies to discover how to continuously simulate real-world attacks on your live network. By safely emulating the entire cyber attack kill chain, you can validate the strength of your defenses, identify potential cyber security threats, and remediate vulnerable gaps.

Three Ways to Prevent Phishing Attacks

Attackers may be sophisticated, but they're more opportunistic than anything else. While emerging threats may dominate the headlines, the truth is that most breaches come from more common techniques like phishing. That's why it's so important to arm your team with the knowledge to prevent these common attacks. If simpler techniques like these don't bear fruit, attackers are more likely to leave you alone and move on to their next target.

Prevent Configuration Drift with Continuous Validation

For security organizations, configuration drift is a serious — and underappreciated — concern. Even if your network, applications, and data were 100% secure the day your tools went live, they may not be tomorrow. Between emerging threats, misconfigurations, and zero-day exploits, it's hard to keep up. If you aren’t reassessing your security stack on an ongoing basis, you’re essentially flying blind.

Take back control with breach and attack simulation tools. By simulating attacks on your production network, you can continuously assess your security posture, pinpoint gaps, and shore up vulnerabilities — before hackers can exploit them.

Stop Bad Actors From Using Encryption Against You

Encrypted traffic is now a dual-edged sword: the same encryption that protects your data is now being exploited by cybercriminals. Hackers take advantage of SSL/TLS encryption, and like a trojan horse, they can hide ransomware, malware, and viruses within encrypted data packets to gain entry into your network.

To beat hackers at their own game, you need security focused intelligence and complete visibility into encrypted traffic. Stay a step ahead by recognizing malware, botnet, exploits, hijacked IPs and phishing activity. Tag suspicious or rogue applications and monitor them for unusual activity.