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Exploring the Role of Data Analytics in SOC Alert Tuning

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) play a crucial role in detecting, responding to, and mitigating security threats in an increasingly complex threat landscape. One fundamental aspect of SOC efficiency is the tuning of alerts to ensure accurate and timely threat detection without overwhelming analysts with false positives. 

SOC alert tuning involves configuring and refining security alerts to cut false positives and negatives to a minimum. False positives can overwhelm analysts with harmless alerts, while false negatives can enable genuine threats to slip through the security nets. 

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What Are the Pillars of API Security?

APIs have fast become a fundamental building block of modern software development. They fuel a vast range of technological advancements and innovations across all sectors. APIs are crucial to app development, the Internet of Things (IoT), e-commerce, digital financial services, software development, and more. Without APIs, the Internet as we know it would not exist. 

 APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, are rules and protocols that allow different software applications to communicate and interact with each other. They define the methods and data structures developers can use to access specific functionalities or data from a service or platform. APIs enable developers to create applications that can leverage the capabilities of other software systems without needing to understand the internal workings of those systems.

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Insider Threats and Software Development: What You Should Know

Insider threats are a multi-million-dollar problem for many organizations, impacting organizations of all sizes and sectors. Although the methods of attack can vary, the primary types of incidents—theft of intellectual property (IP), sabotage, fraud, espionage, unintentional incidents, and misuse—continue to be the archetypes of insider threat events.

The Effect of Insider Threat Actors

According to Carnegie Mellon University, “Insider Threat [is] the potential for an individual who has or had authorized access to an organization's critical assets to use their access, either maliciously or unintentionally, to act in a way that could negatively affect the organization.”

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EDR vs Antivirus: What You Need to Know

A company's endpoints must be effectively protected to be part of its overall cybersecurity plan. While antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions aim to prevent endpoint security threats, they do it in very different ways.

As an advanced alternative to traditional antivirus software, EDR is quickly becoming the new standard. For decades, companies have put their faith in antivirus software as a panacea for enterprise security problems. In contrast, the limitations of "legacy" antivirus have become evident as the sophistication and prevalence of malware threats have expanded over the last decade. Considering these shortcomings of antivirus, some companies have rethought the problems with enterprise security and developed novel approaches to fixing them.

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What Are the Stages of the Certificate Lifecycle?

Digital certificates are electronic credentials that are used to certify the identities of individuals, computers, and other entities on a network. Because they act as machine identities, digital certificates function similarly to identification cards such as passports and drivers’ licenses. For example, passports and drivers’ licenses are issued by recognized government authorities, whereas digital certificates are issued by recognized certification authorities (CAs).

Private and public networks are being used with increasing frequency to communicate sensitive data and complete critical transactions. This has created a need for greater confidence in the identity of the person, computer, or service on the other end of the communication. In addition, these valuable communications must be protected while they are on the network. Although accounts and strong passwords provide a certain level of assurance in the identity of the entity on the other end of the network, they offer little or no protection while data is in transit. In comparison, digital certificates and public key encryption identify machines and provide an enhanced level of authentication and privacy to digital communications.

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Still Using SHA-1 for Internal Certificates? It’s Almost Too Late to Update

How many organizations may have overlooked or delayed the migrations of SHA-1 certificates in internal environments? They are hard to find, hard to track, harder to monitor, and may not have expiration dates that would drive migration.

Everyone who didn’t feel they had to worry too much about replacing those hard-to-find internal SHA-1 certificates will now have to start worrying. Microsoft is in the process of phasing out the use of the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1) code-signing encryption to deliver Windows OS updates. On February 15th, 2018, Microsoft announced that customers running legacy OS versions will be required to have SHA-2 code-signing support installed on their devices by July 2019.