06/12/18 Malware prevention is a very hot topic due to the recent ransomware attacks that have completely crippled several companies and organizations. For most smaller companies, …
06/11/18 Hybrid IT presents SecOps challenges The Department of Defense (DoD) has long been at the tip of the spear when it comes to successfully melding IT security and operations…
06/11/18 “The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of…
05/17/18 How to use network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) and other monitoring software in response to an actual security breach. If you have not read pa…
05/17/18 Why network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) is a must Inspired by former Citibank employee sentencing We’ve all heard horror stories about the dis…
04/03/18 Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he offers suggestions to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Agencies should focus on the basics to pro…
03/13/18 Risk Management is an important part of IT. Being able to identify risks and remediation options can make a huge difference if or when disaster strikes. If you’ve moved pa…
03/09/18 In the final blog of this series, we’ll look at ways to integrate Windows event logs with other telemetry sources to provide a complete picture of a network environment. T…
02/22/18 Over the last three posts, we’ve looked at Microsoft event logging use cases and identified a set of must-have event IDs. Now we’re ready to put our security policy in pla…
02/07/18 Henceforth, the agencies are expected to follow a five-step process: Identify Protect Detect Respond Recover This creates near-term challenges with potentially long-term b…
02/07/18 Anyone who has looked at the number of event IDs assigned to Windows events has probably felt overwhelmed. In the last blog, we looked at some best practices events that a…
01/30/18 Security is always an important topic with our government customers. Here’s an applicable article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he offers some tips on compliance. E…