Security Monitoring

Microsoft's stand-alone version of Defender for SMBs promises to help SecOps teams automate detection, response, and recovery.

This scale of this month's encrypted DDoS attack over HTTPS suggests a well-resourced operation, analysts say.

As the use of AI- and ML-driven decision-making draws transparency concerns, the need increases for explainability, especially when machine learning models appear in high-risk environments.

Acquisition will add Internet-facing attack surface mapping and monitoring to Tenable's internal asset management products.

With Web application programming interface (API) traffic growing quickly, the average cloud-focused company sees three times more attacks.

Unprecedented numbers of DDoS attacks since February are the result of hacktivists' cyberwar against Russian state interests, researchers say.

Acquisition of cloud-based alert security company will help Sophos automate tasks bogging down security teams, the company says.

Acquisition will blend autonomous threat hunting with cloud-native security analytics for automating security tasks.

Companies must enforce more security on their own third-party providers and retain the ability to conduct independent investigations, experts say.

Google and other firms are adding security configuration to software so cloud applications and services have well-defined security settings — a key component of DevSecOps.

Omdia Senior Analyst Hollie Hennessy says the new threat to multiple ICS and SCADA devices underscores the importance of a rapid response to IoT and OT security risks.

Beefing up security requires a combination of forensic efforts and proactive mitigation. IP context aids both.

Google eventually won out in the competition for Mandiant, but Microsoft's interest underscores the trend in consolidation of security services into large cloud providers, experts say.

Feeling overwhelmed by the number of alerts? It doesn't have to be that way.

As the invasion of Ukraine continues, Russian citizens have turned to virtual private networks — boosting demand for the software by 27x — to circumvent the government's blocks on social media and news sites critical of the war.