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An Overview of False Positives and False Negatives Understanding the differences between false positives and false negatives, and how they’re related to cybersecurity is important for anyone working in information security. Why? Investigating false positives is a waste of time/resources and distracts your team from focusing on real cyber incidents (alerts) originating from your SIEM.…
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Malware Hunting is a Necessity in Today’s Enterprise IT Environments Cyber attacks are evolving so rapidly that security teams are struggling to integrate and operationalize security tools that apply to only one area of the protection model. Malware Hunting (threat hunting) for example is becoming a necessity in today’s enterprise IT environments — especially for…
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Case Study: Building on our latest three blog posts in our series outlining how to manage and reduce your organization’s cyber risk, we wanted to show you how these principles (of reducing cyber risk) apply in a real-world case study. To do so, we’ll quickly drill down into detection and response capabilities that can reduce…
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An Incident Response Plan is a critical set of instructions designed to help your IT department—security team at larger companies—properly deal with the slew of network security incidents that can hamper your business at any given moment. Such incidents include (but are not limited to) ransomware, data breaches, service outages, and cyber crimes such as…
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Manage your Cyber Risk Beyond the Core Protection There are plenty of ways to manage (and reduce) your cyber risk beyond the core protection and compliance investments. Here are the three methods of managing cyber risk we find most effective. 1. Detect and Patch Security Vulnerabilities Faster “Known vulnerabilities offer cyber-criminals an easy, relatively frictionless…
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This blog is part two in our ROI series on reducing cyber risk and how Infocyte HUNT reduces your risk within the NIST framework. This post drills down into the managed detection and response (MDR) capabilities that can lower your overall risk and how Infocyte enables them for our partners and subscription customers. Based on…
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New Programs to Reduce your Cyber Risk Everyone agrees that core protection tools are necessary from a risk management and compliance standpoint, but what about adding new programs to reduce your cyber risk? Quantifying your cyber risk is difficult but necessary to establish a prudent financial evaluation and planning process that provides you the right…
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Singapore Invests $22 Million To Reinforce Financial Sector Cybersecurity With Capabilities Grant In December, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched the Cybersecurity Capabilities Grant. The Cybersecurity Capabilities Grant is a new cybersecurity funding initiative designed to help strengthen cyber resilience in Singapore’s financial sector. The $30 million (Singapore Dollars, roughly $22 million USD) government…
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As a rule, we avoid FUD—fear, uncertainty, and doubt—in our marketing. Cybersecurity is complex and confusing enough, so we prefer to focus on the facts without relying on scare tactics—yes, even on Halloween. That said, we also feel it’s important for people to understand their risks and what they’re up against. That way, you’re informed, you…
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Technology Created a Tradeoff of Efficiency for Security in Voting In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, amid the “hanging chads” fiasco in Florida upon which the election hinged, there was a tremendous effort to move toward voting automation to mitigate the perceived drawbacks of what was deemed antiquated paper ballots and/or mechanical/lever machine…
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