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WHITEPAPER

Six Technology Trends to Help Restaurants Rebound in 2021

Many fast casuals managed to pivot quickly in 2020 to a new way of doing business by adding or increasing virtual interactivity, shaking...

VIDEO

How CISOs are Preparing for 2021

To stay secure in the modern connected world, businesses must keep track of all emerging cybersecurity threats, no matter in which form...

VIDEO

Is Your Restaurant Technology Ready for 2021?

Retrospective into a disruptive year, and an outlook into what's yet to come. Ready to close the book on 2020? Yeah, we all are. But...

VIDEO

Defend Against Insider Threats: Why They are Hard to Find & Stop

Insider threats continue to be on the rise, and are now estimated to comprise 30% of all cyber incidents. While external threats often...

ARTICLE

Front-Line MSSPs Share 2021 Cybersecurity Predictions

In 2020, we saw digital transformation accelerate along with rising ransomware, threats caused by human error and misconfigurations, and...

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Ready to Hire an Affordable 24/7 Cybersecurity Professional?

Mid-market organizations continue to be challenged by the need for cybersecurity, and the difficulty in finding budget for a full-time IT...

WHITEPAPER

How Restaurant Chains can Thrive, not Just Survive, with the Right Technology Foundation

Competitive pressures have never been more significant for chain restaurant operators.

This...

CASE STUDY

Retail Data Systems (RDS)

With Netsurion’s BranchSDO CXD all-in-one platform, we found an ideal fit by combining routing, firewall, cellular failover, and Wi...

ARTICLE

8 Threats to Watch for this Holiday Season

This holiday season will be like no other with the continued use of remote work, greater online sales, third-party sourcing from...

ARTICLE

3 Tips to Stretch Your Cybersecurity Dollar

Businesses are always looking for ways to deliver increased value to clients while optimizing efficiency, and this year is no exception...

VIDEO

How the Endpoint Protection Evolution is Changing Managed Detection and Response

For far too long, cybersecurity professionals have had to cobble together multiple tech tools and staff augmentation to round out their...

VIDEO

Digital Transformation of Retail Brands: Dealing with the Impact of COVID-19

The crisis produced by the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed consumer behavior and accelerated the digital transformation of the...

VIDEO

Connection Lost: The Other Current Threat to Restaurants

The shutdowns that have occurred over the last six months have drastically changed how people are ordering and picking up their food. The...

ARTICLE

Think Like a Hacker with MITRE ATT&CK

The threat landscape continues to accelerate, with sophisticated attacks becoming more commonplace as ransomware-as-a-service accelerates...

VIDEO

MITRE ATT&CK for MSPs: Faster Threat Detection and Response

The MITRE ATT&CK™ framework is an ever-expanding knowledge base of known adversarial tactics and techniques that enables cyber defenders...

ARTICLE

Key Elements of MDR for Powerful and Practical Cybersecurity

The rise in ransomware attack volume and sophistication is a wake-up call for executives and IT departments alike. Traditional perimeter...

ARTICLE

Understanding MDR, EDR, EPP, and XDR

The cybersecurity industry is notorious for coining terms and acronyms that rise and fall out of favor before they even have a chance to...

ARTICLE

What is SASE, SD-WAN, and SD-Branch?

Trying to figure out what is really the difference between SASE, SD-WAN, and SD-Branch? Rest assured you are not alone. Before...

VIDEO

Deepening Endpoint Security with AI and Human Intelligence

The first look at our new endpoint threat prevention capabilities integrated into EventTracker. This strategic partnership deepens...

VIDEO

Creative Ways to Optimize Restaurant IT Spending at Time of Crisis

The social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the pace of the digital transformation of the multi-unit...

VIDEO

Get Serious About Selling SMB Cybersecurity: Why and How to Sell to SMBs

More than 75% of SMBs would change MSPs if they felt they would receive better protection. Netsurion wants to help you understand the...

VIDEO

Unexpected Secret Sauce for Increasing Profit Margin

Restaurant businesses thrive off of innovation, speed, and efficiency. But with thin profits getting thinner, some national chains are...

VIDEO

Dark Web Intelligence: Going Deeper Than Compromised Credentials

Threat actors are increasingly gathering across the dark web to coordinate, plan, and launch attacks, some of which can be exposed via...

SOC CATCH

Cryptomining via PowerShell Caught at Retailer

A retailer with over 400 employees, over twelve distribution warehouses, and an extensive supply chain network to protect.

INFOGRAPHIC

MSP Margins are Becoming Slimmer and Customers Less Loyal

As an MSP, your focus should be on developing trust, strategy, and a reliable partnership. MSP margins are becoming slimmer and customers...

CASE STUDY

Co-Managed SIEM for Local Government

Netsurion provides 24/7 coverage and reduces false positives. Our small IT and security staff are too busy to chase after log data...

VIDEO

Optimize Restaurants Online Orders and Curbside Pickup

With online ordering and curbside pick-up buoying restaurants, what are the operational and technical considerations needed to...

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Network Savings Calculator

Netsurion's secure edge networking for retail and hospitality dramatically reduces cost and increases network reliability...

ARTICLE

Is Your Restaurant’s Technology Optimized for the New Normal?

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, restaurants have been forced to quickly adapt to a takeout- and delivery-only model, leaving brands scrambling...

WHITEPAPER

Eating up profits: The High Cost of Restaurant POS Downtime

One tenth of 1 percent. It might not seem like much, but it adds up. And when that one tenth of one percent is POS downtime, it adds up...

ARTICLE

Securing Zoom Conferencing to Protect Data

Business uncertainty has led to widespread adoption of working from home. Since most meaningful tasks in any organization require...

VIDEO

Deconstructing Ransomware to Protect Small and Medium Business

Ransomware is quietly persisting while other stories make headlines, and is now increasingly targeting small and medium sized business...

CASE STUDY

SOC-as-a-Service for Business Information Solutions

The Netsurion EventTracker SOC became an extension of the BIS team, providing additional resources that they didn’t have previously.

ARTICLE

Block Ransomware with SOC-as-a-Service

The public and global businesses alike view ransomware as one of the top cyber threats today. Adversaries are adapting and morphing their...

ARTICLE

Top 3 Must-Have Restaurant Technologies for Increased Takeout Business

Despite current challenges, the restaurant industry is adapting to the new reality of social distancing with creativity while doubling...

VIDEO

Transforming the Restaurant Network with SD-Branch

Quick-service and fast-casual restaurants are struggling to keep up with digital transformation needs while controlling cost and...

ARTICLE

Use VPN Properly to Support Work-from-Home Employees

With most employees working from home amid COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, VPN servers have now become paramount to a company's...

ARTICLE

Ten Work-from-Home Cybersecurity and Productivity Tips

More Work-from-Home (WFH) scenarios due to COVID-19 present challenges as employees move from a trusted and secured office network to...

SOC CATCH

MITRE ATTACK Enriches Ransomware Detection

A United Kingdom-based Managed Service Provider (MSP) specializing in managed IT, cloud, telecom, and security monitoring services uses...

ARTICLE

Expanding Work-from-Home Increases Cybersecurity Risk

Maintaining strong cybersecurity is crucial as organizations make impromptu decisions to send more and more employees to work from home...

VIDEO

Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK® for Increased Cybersecurity Effectiveness

The MITRE ATT&CK® framework is an ever-expanding knowledge base of known adversarial tactics and techniques that enables cyber defenders...

ARTICLE

RSA Conference Key Takeaways for Cybersecurity Defenders

RSA Conference 2020 has come and gone. It still maintains its status as the largest security event in the world, although attendance...

ARTICLE

Avoid Log Monitoring Gaps with Holistic Coverage

A data breach today takes 127 days to detect, according to the Ponemon Institute. Comprehensive visibility and real-time analysis of...

SOC CATCH

Keylogger on MSP Endpoints

A mid-sized Managed Security Provider (MSP) uses EventTracker SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOC-as-a-Service...

ARTICLE

Learn Why Data Privacy is Good for Your Business

Following many high-profile data breaches, consumers have elevated data privacy to front-page news and included it as criteria for brand...

WHITEPAPER

Practical Guide to Cybersecurity for Restaurants and Hotels

Cybersecurity is complex enough as it is. But merchants are dealing with misinformation that further compounds the complexity, causing...

CASE STUDY

Secure Edge Networking for Staley Technologies

Already we can see that customers that have Netsurion installed have had fewer network-related calls than our customers that do not have...

VIDEO

Your Roadmap from MSP to MSSP: Avoid Speedbumps and Accelerate Success

Every managed service provider (MSP) is evaluating managed security services to protect their customers and increase revenue. But how...

VIDEO

Branch Network Management by Netsurion

BranchSDO is the best-fit secure edge networking platform and service developed by Netsurion for the unique needs of multi-unit...

VIDEO

Cybersecurity Holiday Tips

The holiday season is upon us and Netsurion is here to remind you that cybercrime doesn't take a holiday. View the video for tips to stay...

VIDEO

2020 Predictions for the Partner Channel

In 2020, we believe cybersecurity convergence will become the difference maker. It will enable MSPs to deliver effective cyber threat...

ARTICLE

5 Smart Ways to Thwart Login Attacks

Just like locking your front door is crucial to protect your house, monitoring account logins to organizational servers and workstations...

ARTICLE

Cybercrime Doesn't Take a Holiday

The holidays are a busy time for most business owners as they ramp up to serve consumers excited to find holiday specials, or even as...

SOC CATCH

Anomalous Login Attack Detected

The Network: A large Managed Service Provider (MSP) uses EventTracker SIEM + SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) from Netsurion for their end...

CASE STUDY

Co-Managed SIEM for an Insurance Company

We built our security processes around Netsurion’s EventTracker Co-managed security. We want to be proactive versus reactive and...

CASE STUDY

Co-managed SIEM/SOC for a Healthcare Company

Trust is everything in the healthcare community. Netsurion’s co-managed SIEM/SOC solution addresses our staff challenges with...

VIDEO

Visibility and Insights delivered by an SD-Branch Solution

For highly distributed enterprises like retail, restaurant, and stores of all kinds, the branch location is the lifeblood of the business...

WHITEPAPER

Restaurant Digital Transformation with SD-Branch

How Fast Casual and Quick Service Restaurants innovate while protecting the brand and profitability with a software-defined branch...

WHITEPAPER

Maximizing Endpoint Security

There are many more endpoints than fortified servers in the data center, and they are staffed by non-technical users who present softer...

SOC CATCH

MSP Detects Ransomware at Service Industry Client

The Network: A well-known Managed Service Provider (MSP) specializing in infrastructure monitoring and management, disaster recovery, and...

ARTICLE

Five Things to Consider for Point-of-Sale Cellular Failover Connectivity

If a multi-location business is looking for cellular failover connectivity to ensure business continuity in the event of a blackout or...

ARTICLE

7 Steps to Better Website Security for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Threats and threat actors continue to evolve and morph, creating advanced and even more dangerous tactics to mitigate. October is...

PAGE

Maximize Value from SIEM - TCO Calculator

The challenge many face is the lack of qualified analysts for in-house SIEM. This is why Co-Managed SIEM is on the rise…it...

ARTICLE

Is the ELK Stack a SIEM?

The ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack is a popular open source log analysis and management platform. The collection, processing...

VIDEO

5 Things to Consider in 4G Failover Connectivity

One of the key benefits for most businesses deploying SD-WAN is the reduction in WAN costs by up to 80 percent. Continuity and resilience...

ARTICLE

Best Practices to Halt Insider Threats

While nation-state threat actors and external hackers often garner the headlines, insider threats are an often-overlooked threat vector...

WHITEPAPER

When Retail Digital Transformation Equals Digital Disruption

Retail IT Networks Under Stress: How a software-defined branch network (SD-Branch) helps retailers innovate without business interruption.

ARTICLE

When Digital Transformation Equals Digital Disruption

The retail industry has come a long way during the last decade. Online ordering, in-store beacon technology, cloud POS, omnichannel...

WHITEPAPER

A Dollar of Prevention is Worth a Bitcoin of Cure

A true story of how one organization was impacted by a data breach. This executive brief shares the true story of an organization, who we...

ARTICLE

Coordinated Ransomware Attacks Hit Resource-Constrained Municipalities

A financially motivated ransomware gang hit 23 local governments in Texas in a coordinated attack. Ransomware is a type of malicious...

ARTICLE

Black Hat Recap: Cybersecurity Insights That Enhance Security Operations

Black Hat 2019 was a learning experience and success for all. All of the hackers, presenters, vendors, and attendees have gone home, but...

ARTICLE

Mitigate Software Supply Chain Attacks with SIEM and EDR

At Black Hat 2019, Eric Doerr, GM of the Microsoft Security Response Center, reminded attendees of the interconnectedness of enterprise...

ARTICLE

7 Things IT Pros Should Know about HIPAA and Protecting Patient Data

It has grown more challenging to protect patient privacy and secure sensitive data under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and...

CASE STUDY

Cybersecurity for IT Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Netsurion’s EventTracker Essentials solution is the single most important product we’ve launched in our company’s...

ARTICLE

IT Security: How Much Should You Spend?

Just how much should you be spending on IT Security? It’s a vexing question to answer for many reasons as each situation has their...

VIDEO

MSPs are Under Attack: Keep Your Company and Your Customers Out of the Headlines

MSPs of all sizes are under constant threat from hackers trying to access end-customer systems. The biggest surprise is that most of...

VIDEO

Building a Better Retail Branch with SD-WAN

Cloud adoption and digital transformation is driving SD-WAN to replace the traditional WAN. From this transformation, cloud-based...

INFOGRAPHIC

What to Expect from Your SOC-as-a-Service

Are you experiencing a shrinking IT budget and a shortage of cybersecurity experts? Building and retaining a 24/7 SOC team in-house is...

VIDEO

Windows 7 Migration A Reboot on Cybersecurity

Windows 7 is dead in January 2020. Fact is, the battle has shifted to the endpoint because there are more of them in the network, they...

ARTICLE

7 Questions Answered About Windows 7 End-of-Support

Is your organization still using Windows 7? Microsoft support is coming to a close in a few short months. If you think end-of-support for...

VIDEO

Routers Are they a thing of the past?

Join us as we explore the need for reliable, agile and secure branch offices. IT technology sprawl has resulted in complex, expensive...

PAGE

How SMBs are Dealing with Cybersecurity Threats in 2019?

Small and medium-size (SMBs) have been the target of cyber attacks for a while now, however most are still not protecting themselves. Why...

VIDEO

3 keys to Powerful Yet Practical Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity market is certainly not short on over-hyped tools designed to solve a specific threat vector. But what is an IT team to...

ARTICLE

3 Do's and 1 Don't to Improve Your IT Security

Overwhelmed by the hype from security vendors in overdrive? Notice the innovation and trends and feel like jumping on the bandwagon? It...

PAGE

MPLS vs. SD-WAN - Archive

As MPLS contracts approach expiration, the decision to renew or transition to SD-WAN becomes more urgent. This article addresses some of...

ARTICLE

Protecting Legal Data: 3 Ways MSPs Can Enhance Cybersecurity

The legal world is centered on offering clients protection—and in the current technology environment, that extends to cybersecurity...

PAGE

Today's Cybersecurity Isn't as Secure as You Think

Companies try to prevent attackers from getting into their systems with the shotgun approach. They deploy a patchwork of multiple...

SOC CATCH

Outdated Protocol Exposes University to Cyber Attack

The Network: A decentralized university with 34,000 students, dozens of departments, over 9,000 employees and hundreds of servers with...

VIDEO

SD-Branch vs. VPN: How Do They Compare

The way we do business is changing. As critical business applications migrate to the cloud and rely on Hybrid architectures, networking...

ARTICLE

The Four Elements that Build a Better SD-WAN for Retail

Building a better branch network for retailers is not necessarily rocket science. At least, it doesn’t have to be. The formula for...

ARTICLE

How to Protect Financial Data: 4 Cyber Risks MSPs Can't Ignore

Banks have always been a prime target for cybercriminals. With enormous stores of cash and consumer data, and the massive threat of...

ARTICLE

Protecting MSPs from Cyber Attacks

As a Managed Service Provider (MSP) offering IT infrastructure and end-user systems, your clients rely on you with their valuable assets,...

PAGE

Protecting MSPs from Cyber Attacks

View insights on why Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are being targeted by adversaries so you and your end customers don’t fall...

ARTICLE

How to Justify EDR with Three Top Business Cases

Increasing complexity and frequency of attacks have escalated the need for detection of attacks and incident response. Endpoints are the...

WHITEPAPER

Why is VPN hard and how do you make it easy?

With all the benefits and features that SD-WAN architectures bring to businesses and distributed enterprises, there are also new...

ARTICLE

How to Protect Healthcare Data: 5 Cybersecurity Tips for MSPs

For MSPs serving clients in the healthcare industry, protecting data can be complex. With compliance enforcement like HIPAA , for...

VIDEO

Has Your Revenue Growth Slowed?

Shrinking opportunity, increased price pressure, difficulty getting meetings with prospects….the list goes on. Join Netsurion and David...

ARTICLE

SIEMpocalypse?

Did you know that Microsoft is a security vendor? No, it’s true. For years, the company was hammered by negative public perception...

VIDEO

SIEM Worst Practices: How To Sidestep Common Mistakes and Unlock SIEM’s True Potential

Netsurion’s Chief Strategy Officer A.N. Ananth joins Holger Schultze, CEO at Cybersecurity Insiders, outline Security Information and...

ARTICLE

What is EDR and Why It is Critical to SMB Security?

Over 7 billion global devices in an always on and continuously connected world create a soft target for today’s attacker. Whether...

SOC CATCH

EDR catches Emotet at MSPs Healthcare Customer

The Network: A Managed Service Provider (MSP) installed EventTracker Essentials with EDR to mitigate threats on 900 endpoints at a...

VIDEO

What is SIEM and Why Is It Important?

Ever heard of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)? Watch this brief video to learn more about SIEM and why it is an...

VIDEO

Understanding the Cybersecurity Landscape

Proper cybersecurity includes controls to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats. This multi-layer cybersecurity strategy to...

SOC CATCH

MSP Cures a Global Healthcare Non-Profit

The Network: A managed service provider (MSP) implemented the EventTracker Co-managed SIEM service for a healthcare non-profit...

ARTICLE

5-Minute Guide to SD-WAN, MPLS, SD-Branch, NGFW, and More

The networking market is loaded with ambiguous buzzwords and competing acronyms that make it difficult to clearly distinguish one...

ARTICLE

Five Takeaways from the 2019 SIEM Study

We recently released the findings of the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) study conducted by Cybersecurity Insights. The...

ARTICLE

Practical Ways to Implement Threat Hunting

If you think your organization is too small to be targeted by threat actors, think again. Over 60% of organizations have experienced an...

SOC CATCH

Website Vulnerability Exposes Financial Firm

The Network: Our customer is a private equity real estate investment organization on the U.S. East Coast with more than $1B assets under...

ARTICLE

New to SD-Branch? 8 Things Retail IT Pros Need to Know.

The complexities and costs of IT network management and security in retail stores has reached a breaking point. Today’s retail IT...

SOC CATCH

Backup Server Blasted

The Network: Our customer is a leading digital marketing solutions company that empowers millions to find apartments and houses for rent.

VIDEO

Battle IT Technology Sprawl with SD-Branch

Netsurion combines powerful yet easily-deployed edge devices and cloud orchestration, along with next-gen security, cellular failover and...

PAGE

SMB Cyber Risk Today

Protecting a business’ IT infrastructure and data can be difficult with the abundance of threats out there, the array of new data...

VIDEO

Cybersecurity War Stories: Bad Guys and Good Guys Both Represent a Risk to MSPs and their Client

Cybercriminals are not using traditional attack methods to invade your systems, so you can't use traditional cybersecurity defense to...

SOC CATCH

Brute Force Attack in the Medical Field

The Network: An association in a specialty medical field is our customer who is dedicated to the highest standards of clinical care...

SOC CATCH

Dubious Document Destroyed

The Network: Our client is an established law firm with more than 225 lawyers with a long history of well-planned growth, enduring client...

ARTICLE

Is a Business Really Protected or is it Home Alone: Prevent, Detect, and Respond for True Security

Protecting a business’ IT infrastructure and data can be difficult with the abundance of threats out there, the array of new data...

SOC CATCH

Phony Performance Warning Foiled

The Network: Our customer is a well-known law firm with more than 350 lawyers practicing across the globe who counsel multinational...

ARTICLE

Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions 2019

The year 2018 saw ransomware families such as CryptoLocker and variants like Locky continue to plague organizations as cybersecurity...

SOC CATCH

Emotet Interrupted in Hotel Chain

The Network: A Managed Service Provider (MSP) installed EventTracker SIEM to mitigate threats within a large hotel chain’s system in the...

SOC CATCH

Emotet Malware Ejected

The Network: Our customer is a major grocery chain with more than 150 stores in 22 states across the USA with a well-administered IT...

ARTICLE

Top Ten Branch Network Predictions for 2019

It’s that time of the year again! Family and office holiday parties are gearing up, business projects are racing toward year-end...

WHITEPAPER

Choosing the Right SD-WAN - Archive

Many businesses are flocking to this new technology called “SD-WAN” as the solution to these challenges. However, in their...

SOC CATCH

Fox Malware Outfoxed

The Network:  A cloud services provider headquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area served an end customer with EventTracker SIEM who...

ARTICLE

SD-Branch Solutions Are Optimizing Network Management and Security at the Edge

A refresh has come for distributed enterprises. In 2018, branch office WAN technology has been increasingly moving towards software...

PAGE

Technology is Just The Tip of The Iceberg

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is foundational along with other technologies. But an integrated combination of platform...

CASE STUDY

Secure Retail Networks for FTS Solutions

We look at Netsurion as a strategic, long-term partner, offering a great product at an affordable price. Netsurion is easy to do business...

SOC CATCH

Vulnerable VoIP

The Network: A law firm with many offices worldwide who supplements their team with EventTracker’s co-managed 24/7 SIEM services...

WHITEPAPER

From Zero to SOC

Every business–no matter its size–is a bullseye for cyber criminals. Data breaches cost an average of $3.6 million globally...

ARTICLE

Buy, Rent, or Uber Your Security Operations Center

For cyber criminals, everyone’s a target. We must assume that, at some point, every organization’s IT infrastructure will be...

CASE STUDY

PCI DSS Compliance for Autoscribe

Autoscribe’s rich history of innovation in the electronic payment processing business dates back to 1992, with the release of their...

ARTICLE

Why a Co-Managed SIEM?

In simpler times, security technology approaches were clearly defined and primarily based on prevention with things like firewalls...

ARTICLE

Should You Replace Your MPLS with SD-WAN?

Many IT leaders are excited about the benefits of SD-WAN such as cost reduction, agility/flexibility, ease of deployment, and the options...

PAGE

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM)

Being “cyber secure” is not for the faint of heart. As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we are counting down some of...

ARTICLE

Accelerate Your Time-to-Value with Security Monitoring

A hot trend in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) space is emerging, transforming from an MSP to a Managed Security Service Provider...

ARTICLE

Big Data or Smart Questions for Effective Threat Hunting

Advances in data analytics and increased connectivity have merged to create a powerful platform for change. Today, people, objects, and...

ARTICLE

Master the Art of Selling Managed Security Services as an MSP

When it comes to selling security, one of the major challenges faced by managed services providers (MSPs) is changing the mind set of...

VIDEO

Bracing for the Tidal Wave of Data Privacy Compliance in America

Ignorance is not bliss. As discussed in the webcast, Data Privacy Compliance in America is changing rapidly. Staying ignorant of the...

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Are you PCI Compliant?

Learn how to simplify the compliance process and be audit-ready at all times, while still focusing on your business.

ARTICLE

Three Causes of Incident Response Failure

Breaches continue to be reported at a dizzying pace. In 2018 alone, a diverse range of companies — including Best Buy, Delta...

ARTICLE

Venom Vulnerability exposes most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks

Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security...

ARTICLE

Implementing a Central Log Collection System

Implement a Central Collection System Microsoft has made some considerable changes to event management in Windows Vista. But are these...

ARTICLE

Pay Attention to System Security Access Events

There are five different ways you can log on in Windows called “logon types.” The Windows Security Log lists the logon type...

ARTICLE

Tracking removable storage with the Windows Security Log

With data breaches and Snowden-like information grabs, I’m getting increased requests for how to track data moving to and from...

ARTICLE

5 types of DNS attacks and how to detect them

DNS is an attractive mechanism for performing malicious activities like network reconnaissance, malware downloads, or communication with...

WHITEPAPER

Top Considerations When Choosing a Failover Solution

Do you know what questions to ask when evaluating 4G LTE Failover solutions? Get the critical insights you need to make the right choice...

ARTICLE

The Ultimate Playbook to Become an MSSP

Now that advanced cybersecurity protections are a must-have in today’s landscape, organizations of all sizes are increasingly...

SOC CATCH

Remote Code Execution at Public Facing Website

The Network: A global management consulting firm with locations across the USA and UK.

SOC CATCH

BootCD Booted off the Network

The Network: A bank holding company in the U.S. Midwest with an extensive IT infrastructure.

SOC CATCH

HUER Trojan Downloader Quashed

The Network: The end customer of a well-known Managed Services Provider (MSP) who uses EventTracker Co-managed SIEM to deliver value to...

SOC CATCH

HTTPS Request Smuggling

The Network: A mid-size financial institution on the U.S. East Coast. Hundreds of devices on the internal network. Redundant network...

VIDEO

From POS Reseller to Managed Service Provider

Retail IT service providers are being asked over and over to do more for their customers, and the opportunity for recurring revenue is...

ARTICLE

Future-Proof Your Failover Solution

The cost of network downtime or failing internet connectivity has never been higher due to incidents resulting in million-dollar losses...

ARTICLE

Top 3 Office 365 Security Concerns and What to do About Them

Office 365 (O365) is immensely popular across all industry verticals in the small and medium enterprise space. It is often the killer app...

SOC CATCH

Trickbot Attacks Promotional Products Industry

The Network: The end customer of a well-known Managed Services Provider (MSP) who uses EventTracker Co-managed SIEM to safeguard their...

ARTICLE

The Bite Behind the Bark: Enforcement Power of GDPR

There’s an old saying: Their bark is worse than their bite. However, this is not the case with the penalties of non-compliance when...

ARTICLE

Today’s CISO Challenges…The Talent Gap

It continues to be challenging being a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) today – and this year promises no rest. As high...

CASE STUDY

Cybersecurity and Compliance for Altamaha Bank & Trust

Our customers are priority #1. They come to us with an expectation and we want to deliver. The challenge is keeping up that level of...

VIDEO

GDPR-Five Things You Should Know

GDPR is the biggest change in 20 years for European data security. All EU-based or multi-national companies must comply, but don’t forget...

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

The cost of doing nothing can be greater than the cost of protecting your business.

ARTICLE

Do you have a cyber blind spot?

What's the cost of securing your network from a cyber attack? According to Precision Analytics and The CAP Group, many companies are...

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PCI Compliance and Hotels

To streamline operations, improve service and remain competitive, hotels use computers to handle numerous tasks. While automation...

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Time is money. Downtime is loss of money.

The technological revolution has introduced a plethora of advanced solutions to help identify and stop intrusions. There is no...

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Cybersecurity is an Investment, Not a Cost Center

The cybersecurity threat landscape is in constant motion – ever evolving. According to Kaspersky Labs, 323,000 new malware strains...

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How to Protect Your Network from Ransomware Tips from the FBI

The FBI estimates that more than 4,000 ransomware attacks have occurred daily since the beginning of 2016. That...

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The Difference Between a SIEM Solution and SIEM Tool: Features vs. Outcomes

Can you simply buy a “SIEM solution”? Turns out you really cannot, no matter how hard you try nor how passionately the vendor...

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Catch Malware Hiding in WMI with Sysmon

Security is an ever-escalating arms race. The good guys have gotten better about monitoring the file system for artifacts of advanced...

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Looking for Cost-Effective Business Continuity? Consider these five things before you buy.

One of the key benefits for most businesses deploying SD-WAN is the reduction in WAN costs by up to 80 percent. Continuity and resilience...

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Host-based Versus Network-based Security

The argument is an old one; are you better off with a network-based detector, assuming all hosts will eventually communicate, or should...

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The Top Considerations When Buying a 4G LTE Router

More and more businesses are adopting 4G LTE either to set up a backup network connection or to gain internet access when other means...

VIDEO

A Day in the Life of Your Website

We spun up a dummy website to conduct an experiment on website cybersecurity. The results were very interesting. In less than 24 hours...

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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'We weren't logging'

It doesn't rhyme and it's not what Whittier said but it's true. If you don't log it when it happens, the evidence is gone...

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Once More Unto the Data (Breach), Dear Friends

As I reflect on this year, a Shakespearean quote plays out in my mind – when King Henry the Fifth is rallying his troops to attack...

VIDEO

Emotet A Tale of Two Cities: How One Municipality Neutralized the Threat Quickly

The Emotet virus has crippled Allentown, PA and is expected to cost an estimated $1 million dollars to fix the damage and remove the...

VIDEO

Changes to PCI DSS v3.2 and What It Means for You

Are you compliant with PCI DSS Version 3.2? Restaurants, retailers, hotels, doctors' and lawyers' offices, and many more, all need to...

ARTICLE

True Cost of Data Breaches

The Cisco Annual Cybersecurity Report provides insights based on threat intelligence gathered by Cisco's security experts, combined...

SOC CATCH

Emotet Caught in a City

The Network: A municipal government serviced by an MSP requested that the EventTracker SIEM sensor be installed on hundreds of monitored...

ARTICLE

What is SD-WAN and can it be used for smaller sites too?

SD-WAN is transforming enterprise networks with affordable network infrastructure by offering low-cost, reliable network connectivity...

VIDEO

Let's Go Threat Hunting: Gain Visibility and Insight into Potential Threats and Risks

As the threat landscape continues to evolve mere protection, however diligent, is not practical to defend against threats. Adversaries...

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The Perimeter is Dead: Long-live the Perimeter

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security commissioned Livermore National Labs to produce a kind of pre-emptive post-mortem report.

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How does EMV and P2PE impact PCI compliance?

Cybersecurity is complex enough as it is. But to compound the issue, merchant businesses in the retail, restaurant, and hospitality space...

VIDEO

Financial Cybersecurity Under Attack

It’s no secret that the financial industry is under attack. If we learn by recent examples, we know that technology alone is not enough...

VIDEO

Is You Network PCI DSS Compliant?

We all hear it over and over again: complying with data protection requirements is expensive. But did you know that the financial...

VIDEO

Cybersecurity is Not Rocket Science

The word cybersecurity can seem daunting and bring to mind images of costly software and hardware needed to protect your business. But...

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Changes to PCI DSS and What It Means for You

Are you compliant with PCI DSS Version 3.2? Restaurants, retailers, hotels, doctors' and lawyers' offices, and many more...

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Can your Cybersecurity Posture be Called "Reactive Chaos"?

Does this sound familiar? You have no control of your environment and most of your efforts are diverted into understanding what happened,...

SOC CATCH

Nemucod Nailed in the Network

The Network: A state government agency that performs financial audits of other government departments.

SOC CATCH

Bloatware Banned from Bank

The Network: A bank serving multiple states on the U.S. East Coast with a headquarters and several dozen branch offices; 500+ servers and...

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3-Minute Breakdown of Cybersecurity’s Biggest Buzzwords

The cybersecurity market is loaded with ambiguous buzzwords and competing acronyms that make it very difficult to clearly distinguish one...

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Security Signals Everywhere: Finding the Real Crisis in a World of Noise

Imagine dealing with a silent, but mentally grating barrage of security alerts every day. The security analyst’s dilemma?

SOC CATCH

Bunitu Trojan Trapped

The Network: A diversified global financial services company based on the U.S. east coast. Their IT team is supplemented by EventTracker...

CASE STUDY

South River Electric Membership Corporation

South River Electric Membership Corporation, (South River EMC ) is a member-owned electric distribution cooperative that delivers...

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Believe it or not, compliance saves you money

We all hear it over and over again: complying with data protection requirements is expensive. But did you know that the financial...

SOC CATCH

Man-in-the-middle Disrupted at Multinational

The Network: A law firm with 14 offices worldwide. Their team is supplemented 24/7 by EventTracker’s co-managed security solution.

SOC CATCH

Adware Creates a Nuisance at Energy Company

The Network: A non-profit Electricity Distribution Cooperative serving more than 100,000 members.

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Three InfoSec Retail Predictions

It has been a turbulent year for industry as a whole, and retail has been in the center of the turbulence. Amazon bought Whole Foods...

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Attribution of an attack - don’t waste time on empty calories

When we are attacked, we feel a sense of outrage and the natural tendency is to want to somehow punish the attacker. To do this, you must...

SOC CATCH

Kovter Cropped Before Doing Damage

The Network: A holding company that provides commercial and consumer banking. Their IT team is supplemented by EventTacker Enterprise...

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Going Mining for Bitcoin

While you’ve been busy defending against ransomware, the bad guys have been scheming about new ways to steal from you. Let’s...

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Prevention is Key in Cybersecurity

A lot of data, an overwhelming amount actually, is available from hundreds of sources, but rarely is it observed. Having something and...

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Experimenting with Windows Security: Controls for Enforcing Policies

Interest continues to build around pass-the-hash and related credential artifact attacks, like those made easy by Mimikatz. The main...

INFOGRAPHIC

Connectivity is The Key to Your Business

Connectivity is key to doing business these days, yet it is estimated that nearly 80% of connected devices are vulnerable to breach.

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SIEM, UEBA, SOAR and Your Cybersecurity Arsenal

The evolution of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions has made a few key shifts over time. It started as simply...

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You’re in the Cybersecurity Fight No Matter What: Are You Prepared?

“You’re in the fight, whether you thought you were or not”, Gen. Mike Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA...

SOC CATCH

Blackhole Foiled at Global Law Firm

The Network: A law firm with 14 offices worldwide. Their team is supplemented by EventTracker SIEM on a 24/7 basis.

SOC CATCH

Malware at the Domain Controller

The Network: A major nonprofit organization that supplements its team with EventTracker Enterprise, our co-managed security solution.

SOC CATCH

Browser Hijacked at a Bank

The Network: A holding company that provides commercial and consumer banking. Their IT team is supplemented by EventTracker Enterprise...

SOC CATCH

Brute Force Attack on Firewall Stopped

The Network: A nonprofit organization in healthcare research. The EventTracker SIEM service supplements their IT team.

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Make a cybersecurity list and check it twice this holiday season

As the holidays swiftly approach, many of us are making lists and plans as part of the crescendo of year-end activity. We don’t...

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The “Bumper-to-Bumper” Security Solution of POS Systems?

When Point-to-point encryption (P2PE) was standardized by the PCI Security Standards Council, many thought it would become the be-all end...

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Which security functions outsource poorly and which outsource well

The IT security industry’s skill shortage is a well-worn topic. Survey after survey indicates that a lack of skilled personnel is a...

WHITEPAPER

Practical Guide to Merchant Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is complex enough as it is. But merchants are dealing with misinformation that further compounds the complexity, causing...

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Avoid Three Common Active Directory Security Pitfalls

While the threats have changed over the past decade, the way systems and networks are managed have not. We continue with the same...

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A haunting tale, just in time for the fall: Don’t let what happened to them, happen to you…

The old Haunted Hotel with squeaky wood floors, welcomed all guests who dared enter the front doors. Guests arrived from every nation...

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Three myths surrounding cybersecurity

A common dysfunction in many companies is the disconnect between the CISO, who views cybersecurity as an everyday priority, versus top...

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Report All the Binary Code Executing on Your Network with Sysmon Event IDs

Computers do what they are told, whether good or bad. One of the best ways to detect intrusions is to recognize when computers are...

SOC CATCH

Bitcoin Miner Steals Resources

The Network: A 150-bed hospital in the Caribbean that provides in and outpatient services. The Expectation: IT resources are to be

SOC CATCH

CEO Phishing Through a Word Macro

The Network: A prominent hotel chain with several thousand locations worldwide. This problem was at a specific location on the U.S

SOC CATCH

Phishing Installs Locky Ransomware

he Network: A leading branded merchandise agency with several locations in the U.S. This problem was at a specific location on

SOC CATCH

Resort Front Desk – Gateway to Compromise?

The Network: A chain of vacation resorts with several locations in North America. The front desk is supposed to be the

SOC CATCH

WannaCry Infects Health Care Provider

The Network: A not-for-profit 501(c)(3) community asset providing healthcare related services in many states in the southeast United States.

SOC CATCH

Jaff Ransomware Caught at Georgia-based MSP

The Network: A Georgia-based IT outsourcing and technology services company that provides managed IT solutions to various companies and...

SOC CATCH

File-less Click Fraud Trojan

The Network: A financial services firm in the Midwest U.S. with a very well run network security team on site. The...

SOC CATCH

Trojan Detection at a Healthcare Organization

The Network: A healthcare services provider with an on-site security team. The EventTracker SIEM service supplements this team.

SOC CATCH

Exploit Caused by a Vulnerable Browser Plugin

The Network: Global fine dining company that operates in over 160 countries. The Expectation: Patch management processes and regular...

SOC CATCH

The Nitol Trojan, caught and killed

The Network: A healthcare services provider on the west coast of the U.S. They use EventTracker Enterprise service.

SOC CATCH

CCleaner thwarted, TANSTAAFL

The Network: A technology provider with an on-site IT team. The EventTracker Enterprise service supplements this team.

SOC CATCH

Malware Booted on State Government Network

A U.S. state network with hundreds of servers and workstations across multiple organizations and distributed agencies statewide. The...

SOC CATCH

Lax Access Steps Jeopardize Government Network

The Network: A U.S. federal government agency that is a long-standing user of EventTracker SIEM from Netsurion.

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Can general purpose tools work for IT security?

This post got me thinking about a recent conversation I had with the CISO of a financial company. He commented on how quickly his team...

SOC CATCH

Adware via the IE Toolbar

The Network: A Bank serving multiple states on the US East Coast with an HQ and several dozen branch offices; 500+

SOC CATCH

After-hours Activity is Bad for Business

The Network: A financial institution with operations in multiple states in the USA. The Expectation: Workstations are extensively used at...

SOC CATCH

Angler EK goes Fishing

The Network: A well regarded private university with nationally ranked academic programs in the U.S. The Expectation: A layered defense from

SOC CATCH

Bloatware on a New Laptop

The Network: Legal firm with hundreds of attorneys, dozens of offices The Expectation: Brand new laptops are clean, they get infected

SOC CATCH

Bogus Account Creation as a Backdoor

The Network: A financial firm headquartered in the U.S. East Coast with several hundred servers and workstations. The Expectation...

SOC CATCH

Browser Hijacking

The Network: A Bank serving multiple states on the U.S. East Coast with a HQ and several dozen branch offices; 500+

SOC CATCH

Brute Force SSH Attack

The Network: An energy cooperative with multiple datacenters and hundreds of servers. The Expectation: The network design is thoughtfully...

SOC CATCH

Convenience is the Enemy of Security

The Network: A government contractor on the U.S. East Coast with 250+ servers and 100+ workstations. The Expectation: System...

SOC CATCH

Defrag an SSD, a bad thing?

The Network: U.S. East Coast data center of a nationwide retailer. Its up-to-date equipment includes a significant investment in Solid State

SOC CATCH

Domain Login Introduces Insecurity

The Network: A business school with 3,000 students in New England; 200+ servers and 500+ workstations. Microsoft Windows is the dominant

SOC CATCH

Drive by attack using Java

The Network: A financial firm headquartered in the Midwest U.S. with several hundred servers and workstations. The Expectation: Critical...

SOC CATCH

Exploit of Remote access

The Network: Healthcare organization, dozens of servers, several hundred workstations The Expectation: Lean in house IT staff...

SOC CATCH

Honey I blew up the hard drive

The Network: An Electric Cooperative in the US Midwest with 50+ servers and 100+ workstations The Expectation: All servers have sufficient

SOC CATCH

Honeypot deceives attacker trying to exploit Apache Struts Vulnerability

The Network: A technology provider with an on-site IT team. The EventTracker SIEM service supplements this team.

SOC CATCH

Illegal Access to Expensive Library Resources

The Network: A mid-sized state university with multiple locations and 30,000 students. The Expectation: The university library subscribes...

SOC CATCH

Nosy Admin Snoops Managing Partners Email

The Network: A law firm headquartered in the U.S. East Coast with a dozen offices worldwide. The Expectation: Email is the

SOC CATCH

Phishing attack via bogus Dropbox Login page

The Network: A financial firm headquartered in the Midwest U.S. with several hundred servers and workstations. The Expectation...

SOC CATCH

Ransomware Persists

The Network: Central Bank of a nation that sets fiscal policy. There are hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations. They

SOC CATCH

Services Tied to Disabled Account

The Network: A non-profit corporation that operates dozens of hospitals and ancillary care facilities in 17 states. The Expectation...

SOC CATCH

The Clickjacked website

The Network: A high technology provider on the US East Coast with several hundred servers, including internal webservers and a popular

SOC CATCH

The Executive Bully

The Network: HQ location of nationwide retail chain The Expectation: Higher up’s set an example for the rest of us The

SOC CATCH

The Guest WiFi

The Network: Multi location retail store chain The Expectation: Customers can be provided guest WiFi; it encourages longer stays in-store...

SOC CATCH

The Most Misunderstood Windows Setting of All Time

The Network: A financial services firm headquartered on the U.S. East Coast with several hundred servers and workstations. The...

SOC CATCH

The Over Confident Tech

The Network: High tech provider of services The Expectation: Users with IT admin skills are more careful than the average user

SOC CATCH

The Remote Access Misconfiguration

The Network: Multi state Electricity provider The Expectation: When IT makes changes, they are done right The Catch: Remote Desktop Protocol

SOC CATCH

The Smartphone Password Update

The Network: Financial institution The Expectation: Providing access to email via personal or company provided smartphones boosts...

SOC CATCH

Troubleshooting Causes Trouble

The Network: A manufacturing facility in the US East Coast with 50+ servers and 100+ workstations The Expectation: User logins fire

SOC CATCH

Unexpected USB drive activity

The Network: Midwest US banking institution, hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations The Expectation: All USB storage devices...

SOC CATCH

Vendor-created backdoor

The Network: A multi-state retailer with 100+ stores on the US East Coast; 400+ servers. The Expectation: Business functions require that

SOC CATCH

VPN from a Coffee Shop

The Network: A well known college system with 35+ locations and 30,000 students. The Expectation: Remote access to data center resources

SOC CATCH

Why HTTPS matters

The Network: A nationwide health insurance provider The Expectation: The health insurance provider uses an antivirus that provides...

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Malware, Ransomware, and the Next Big Threat

Imagine the lost revenue for a major retailer if they needed to shut down all of their stores for a few days, or even a few hours...

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Equifax’s enduring lesson — perfect protection is not practical

Equifax, one of the big-three US credit bureaus, disclosed a major data breach. It affects 143 million individuals — mostly...

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Three critical advantages of EventTracker Essentials

By now it’s accepted that SIEM is a foundational technology for both securing a network from threats as well as demonstrating...

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Three paradoxes disrupting IT Security

2017 has been a banner year for IT Security. The massive publicity of attacks like WannaCry have focused public attention like never...

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Think you are too small to be hacked?

Why has ransomware exploded on to the scene in 2017? Because it works.

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How do you determine IT security risk?

How much security is enough? That’s a hard question to answer. You could spend $1 or $1M on security and still ask the same...

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Protect Your Back-to-School Sales From POS Ransomware

Security experts believe that cybercriminals will be shifting tactics due to declining revenues from stolen credit card sales. We discuss...

VIDEO

POS Ransomware - Imagine the Impact

What can be done to truly protect a business? Go beyond bare-bones security regulatory compliance by implementing security measures to...

CASE STUDY

Managed SIEM for Talbots

The Talbots Inc. is a leading multi-channel retailer and direct marketer of women’s apparel, shoes and accessories based in Tampa...

CASE STUDY

Managed SIEM for Labor Union

A large labor organization was seeking a log management offering that would help it meet government data-security requirements, as well...

CASE STUDY

Managed SIEM at a Financial Institution

A long-standing community bank that provides consumer and commercial financial services was in need of a log management offering that...

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Ransomware's Next Move

While IT security teams identify, hunt, and remove specific variants of the ransomware, there may already be unknown mutated varieties...

WHITEPAPER

POS Ransomware

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Except in business, where an ounce of prevention can be worth several million dollars...

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Protecting Against Ransomware Attacks: What Every Business Needs to Know

Ransomware attack frequency is at its height as there have been more than 4,000 ransomware attacks happening each day for over a year now...

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Yet Another Ransomware That Can be Immediately Detected with Process Tracking on Workstations

As I write this, yet another ransomware attack is underway. This time it’s called Petya, and it again uses SMB to spread. But here...

INFOGRAPHIC

Top 10 Hotel Breaches & Lessons Learned

We're counting down the top hotel POS data breaches of all-time...and the lessons we have learned from them.

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Petya Ransomware – What it is and what to do

A new ransomware variant is sweeping across the globe known as Petya. It is currently having an impact on a wide range of industries and...

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The Top Five Cyber Threats Hotel Brands and Franchisees Need to Know About

While automation facilitates hotel operations and often makes a better stay for guests, it also opens hotels to digital threats...

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Are you Prepared for Retail Ransomware?

With stolen credit card data value on the decline in the black market, and the continued rise of ransomware attacks, retailers are...

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Perfect protection is not practical

With distressing regularity, new breaches continue to make headlines. The biggest companies, the largest institutions both private and...

VIDEO

Netsurion Partners - What's New?

VIDEO

WannaCry Ransomware Webinar

Is it over? Will it happen again? - How it spreads - What it does - Technical details - What Netsurion, through our SIEM-at-the-Edge...

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Three myths about Ransomware

No industry is immune to these attacks, which if successful are a blot on financial statements of the targeted companies. Despite their...

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Tips for Protecting Information While on the Go: What Summer Travelers Need to Know About Security

As the summer travel season quickly approaches, most people envision exchanging work clothes and school books for shorts, flip flops, and...

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Protect Your Business from Ransomware

As the second iteration of the WannaCry ransomware impacting IT infrastructure around the globe is expected, we want to arm our customers...

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Challenges with Threat Intelligence or why a Honeynet is a good idea

Shared threat intelligence is an attractive concept. The good guys share experiences about what the bad guys are doing thereby blunting...

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Tips for Choosing the Right POS Provider: What a small business owner needs to know

As a new business owner, there is so much to be proud of and so much to do. Your idea turned into a plan that has been put to action, so...

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When a SIEM is Like an Exercise Machine Stuck Behind the Junk in Your Garage

I’m a big believer in security analytics and detective controls in general.  At least sometimes, bad guys are going to evade...

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5 Security Tips for Small and Multi-location Tax and Accounting Firms: Tax Season and Beyond

Tax season is a busy time of year for hackers, given the ample opportunities to steal personal and financial information through phishing...

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Essential soft skills for cybersecurity success

IT workers in general, but more so IT Security professionals, pride themselves on their technical skills. Keeping abreast of the latest...

INFOGRAPHIC

How Strong Are Your Passwords?

How Strong Are Your Passwords? Netsurion tips to keep you and your business protected.

VIDEO

Advanced Threat Protection for SMBs

Learn why firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-malware alone may not be enough to secure your business from the ever-evolving threat landscape...

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Who suffers more - cybercrime victims or cybersecurity professionals?

So you got hit by a data breach, an all too common occurrence in today’s security environment. Who gets hit? Odds are you will say...

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Top three high risk behaviors that compromise IT Security

The insider threat is typically much more infrequent than external attacks, but they usually pose a much higher severity of risk for...

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The Top Five Threats That Restaurant Franchisees Need to Know About

Restaurants with multiple locations are taxed with increased pressure to succeed in different geographic locations, with potentially...

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Ransomware is only getting started

Ransomware is about denying you access to your data via encryption. But that denial has to be of a great enough magnitude create...

ARTICLE

Foster a Healthy Security Posture

Securing medical records is a complex undertaking. Healthcare organizations need an array of security technologies that can be used to...

VIDEO

Creating a Healthcare Cybersecurity Battle Plan

A good security plan can be overwhelming at first, but with the right knowledge and expertise, it can be simplified and managed. On this...

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EventTracker Enterprise and the Cyber Kill Chain

Defense strategies that focus exclusively on the perimeter and on prevention do not take into account the kill chain life cycle approach;...

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Your Voice for SMB Compliance Pains

We believe that every business should have the means to protect themselves and their customers from cyberattacks, and the PCI Security...

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas – an EventTracker Story

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through HQ Not a creature was stirring, except greedy Lou – An insider thief who had...

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Compliance is not a proxy for due care

Regulatory compliance is a necessary step for IT leaders, but it’s not sufficient enough to reduce residual IT security...

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May Your Holidays be Merry, Bright, and Hack Free: Security Tips for the Biggest Shopping Season

Though there are many companies out there responsible for securing merchant locations from the risks of data breaches, people’s own...

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Serving up Security: What Restaurants Need to Know about Breach Risks and Prevention

Sure, the headlines have been wrought with healthcare ransomware stories, election-centric email breaches, and massive retail hacks&mdash...

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Work Smarter – Not Harder: Use Internal Honeynets to Detect Bad Guys Instead of Just Chasing False Positives

Log collection, SIEM and security monitoring are the journey not the destination.  Unfortunately, the destination is often a false...

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How To Make Cybersecurity Great Again: Guidance For President-Elect Donald Trump

Are you feverishly working to patch your systems today with the latest available patches? Or are you spending your time unfriending...

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Top three reasons SIEM solutions fail

We have been implementing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions for more than 10 years. We serve hundreds of active...

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How the EventTracker/Netsurion merger will bring you more powerful cybersecurity solutions

We are delighted that EventTracker is now part of the Netsurion family. On October 13, 2016 we announced our merger with managed security...

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A Day in the Life of a Consumer

Years ago, in a data security nightmare not so far away…I found out how quickly a brand could change from being a favorite of mine...

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Tracking Physical Presence with the Windows Security Log

How do you figure out when someone was actually logged onto their PC? The data is there in the security log, but it’s so much...

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Key takeaways from the presidential debate on cybersecurity.

​The presidential debate, as entertaining as it was for many, was a great place to hear about the focus needed on cybersecurity issues in...

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IT Service Providers: Mind the Security Gap

Persistent threats affecting businesses of all sizes and in all verticals are becoming more consistent and hitting more frequently. The...

ARTICLE

Are there any weaknesses in your Point-of-Sale System?

News about a company being breached seems to be a regular occurrence nowadays. And it’s no...

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Demystifying PCI Compliance

PCI compliance: that daunting phrase you always hear in the world of payments…but never truly...

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What is privilege escalation and why should you care?

A common hacking method is to steal information by first gaining lower-level access to your network. This can happen in a variety of ways...

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Monitoring DNS Traffic for Security Threats

Cyber criminals are constantly developing increasingly sophisticated and dangerous malware programs. Statistics for the first quarter of...

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RetailNOW Recap 2016: Security Top of Mind for Attendees

The event, aimed at connecting the point-of-sale (POS) technology ecosystem, was extremely successful...

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How to control and detect users logging onto unauthorized computers

Windows gives you several ways to control which computers can be logged onto with a given account.  Leveraging these features is a...

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POS VARs - Don’t be a Target!

When business owners start looking at Point-of-Sale (POS) systems, they may feel overwhelmed at the...

ARTICLE

Is your brand truly secured?

So you have a big brand name that millions of consumers trust. You have hundreds to thousands of...

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7 ways you can prevent credit card fraud when shopping!

We know how tempting those summer sales are! But are you being careful on where you are swiping your card?

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Idea to retire: Do more with less

Ideas to Retire is a TechTank series of blog posts that identify outdated practices in public sector IT management and suggest new ideas...

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Detect Persistent Threats on a Budget

There’s a wealth of intelligence available in your DNS logs that can help you detect persistent threats. So how can you use them to...

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Do you know where your data is?

In this fifth article of the series, we continue to explore the basic ways businesses can keep their networks safer. These include tools...

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Dirty truths your SIEM vendor won’t tell you

Analytics is an essential component of a modern SIEM solution. The ability to crunch large volumes of log and security data in order to...

ARTICLE

Are you guilty of any of these PCI myths?

We have gathered what have been common comments that we hear from business owners. And today, we would like to bust these myths!

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Should I be doing EDR? Why isn’t anti-virus enough anymore?

Detecting virus signatures is so last year. Creating a virus with a unique signature or hash is quite literally child’s play, and...

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What you should know about programs, ports and services

In this fourth article in the series, we continue to explore some of the basic ways that business of all sizes can keep their computer...

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Uncover C&C traffic to nip malware

In a recent webinar, we demonstrated techniques by which EventTracker monitors DNS logs to uncover attempts by malware to communicate...

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7 things you need to know about Anti-Virus protection.

In this entry we discuss the topic of anti-virus protection. There are many questions that come up when we talk about this topic. So here...

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The Perils of Using Remote Access Software

While software that can be installed on your PC and used to remotely connect when you are away from your home office can be very handy...

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Maximize your SIEM ROI

Far too many SIEM implementations are considered to be catastrophes. Having implemented hundreds of such projects, here are the three...

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Why is patching important to the security of your business?

If you are not keeping up with regular patching of your computer and the programs that run on it – then you are simply asking for...

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Detecting Ransomware: The Same as Detecting Any Kind of Malware?

Ransomware burst onto the scene with high profile attacks against hospitals, law firms and other organizations.  What is it and how...

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Protecting your business from hacker’s attacks.

2016 Verizon Breach Investigations Report (Part 3 of 3)
We've covered the 4 patterns of attack used by hackers, expanded on...

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What tools are hackers using to access businesses’ networks?

2016 Verizon Breach Investigations Report (Part 2 of 3)
In our previous post we showed you that regardless of the business&rsquo...

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Research points to SIEM-as-a-Service

SC Magazine released the results of a research survey focused on the rising acceptance of SIEM-as-a-Service for the small and medium...

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Is your business at risk of a data breach?

2016 Verizon Breach Investigations Report (Part 1 of 3)
The 80 page report is packed with valuable data breach insights. We know...

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No Business is Too Small for Hackers!

It's National Small Business Week! Let's celebrate the hard work you do and make sure your...

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What you should know about PCI DSS 3.2

PCI DSS 3.2 is scheduled for release at the end of April. Have you thought about how this update can affect your business? Will you still...

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Welcome to the New Security World of SMB Partners

Yet another recent report confirms the obvious, that SMBs in general do not take security seriously enough. The truth is a bit more...

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Your Best Defense Against Ransomware Might Be Your Employees

While your business’ data security program should consist of many components, perhaps the most effective defense to ransomware is...

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Top 3 traits of a successful Security Operations Center

Traditional areas of risk — financial risk, operational risk, geopolitical risk, risk of natural disasters — have been part...

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Just how dangerous is ransomware?

Ransomware is a business’ worst nightmare. This malware infects computers and restricts the users from accessing any of their data...

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Is the IT Organizational Matrix an IT Security Problem?

Do you embrace the matrix? The fact is, once networks get to a certain size, IT organizations begin to specialize and small kingdoms emerge.

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Cloud Security Starts at Home

Cloud security is getting attention and that’s as it should be.  But before you get hung up on techie security details, like...

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Last Year's Cyber Attack Trends — This Year's Implications

The range of threats included trojans, worms, trojan downloaders and droppers, exploits and bots (backdoor trojans), among others. When...

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Hungry…Hungry…HIPAA

I have fond memories of playing a board game called Hungry Hungry Hippos in my younger days. Today’s medical practices mirror the...

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Mobile Tech in Healthcare Can Put Your Practice at Risk

While you focus on providing the best health service for your patients, it is easy to under-estimate the risks that you may be putting...

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Certificates and Digitally Signed Applications: A Double Edged Sword

Windows supports the digitally signing of EXEs and other application files so that you can verify the provenance of software before it...

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Top 5 SIEM complaints

Here’s our list of the Top 5 SIEM complaints:1) We bought a security information and event management (SIEM) system, but it...

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The Cost of False IT Security Alarms

Think about the burglar alarm systems that are common in residential neighborhoods. In the eye of the passive observer, an alarm system...

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SIEM: Sprint or Marathon?

Winning a marathon requires dedication and preparation. Over long periods of time. A sprint requires intense energy but for a short...

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Pain-Free Data Security for Medical Offices

It’s understandable that the primary goal of any healthcare practice is to keep their patients healthy and safe. But what about...

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The Assume Breach Paradigm

Given today’s threat landscape, let’s acknowledge that a breach has either already occurred within our network or that it...

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2015: “The Year of the Healthcare Hack"

2015 was a tough year for the healthcare industry. Some are even calling 2015 “the year of...

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SIEM and Return on Security Investment (RoSI)

The traditional method for calculating standard Return on Investment (RoI) is that it equals the gain minus the cost, divided by the...

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Shoppers Care If You've Been Breached!

It’s the holiday season and for many that means shopping season! But it also means that theft increases, whether it is physical...

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Diagnosing Account Lockout in Active Directory

Here we are going to look for Event ID 4740. This is the security event that is logged whenever an account gets locked. “User X...

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Why Do Hackers Want Your Medical Records

2015 has been a year of healthcare data breaches. But why are hackers going after healthcare records now?

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6 Safe Computing Tips to Help Retailers Fight Off Hackers

Many small businesses believe only the "big guys" will suffer a data breach. But did you know that 90% of data breaches impact...

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Cybersecurity Professionals

As data breaches occur more and more, it is no secret that the market needs more cybersecurity professionals. Here are a few statistics...

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Security Subsistence Syndrome

Security Subsistence Syndrome (SSS) is defined as a mindset in an organization that believes it has no security choices and is...

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The Evolution of the Hacker

Technology keeps improving, as do hackers. Hackers have been around for years and years; from exploiting the vulnerabilities of telephone...

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Catching Hackers Living off the Land Requires More than Just Logs

If attackers can deploy a remote administration tool (RAT) on your network, it makes it so much easier for them. RATs make it luxurious...

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The Ten Steps Post Data Breach

Nearly 60% of businesses have experienced a breach in the last two years. Have you ever considered what would happen if your business was...

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When is an alert not an alert?

EventTracker users know that one of its primary functions is to apply built-in knowledge to reduce the flood of all security/log data to...

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The Transition to EMV Isn't Over

Merchants know by now that after October 1st the liability for card-present fraud will shift to whichever party is the least EMV...

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How Strong Are Your Passwords? Tips To Keep You Protected

Passwords keep your accounts and network safe but may also be a gateway for hackers. Here are some quick tips we recommend when creating...

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How to Detect Low Level Permission Changes in Active Directory

We hear a lot about tracking privileged access today because privileged users like Domain Admins can do a lot of damage. But more...

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Find Out Who Is Affected By A Data Breach?

The number of data breaches continues to increase. Cybercrime affects your brand, your customers and your employees in ways that are...

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Healthcare Practices are at Particularly High Risk of Data Breach

The CDC estimates that close to 80% of office-based physicians use some form of electronic medical records. This increase, coupled with...

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The Impact Of A Data Breach

What is the true cost of a data breach? A data breach affects your business, brand, and reputation. But it can be prevented.

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4 Common Data Threats Every Business Needs to Be Aware Of

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Three Indicators of Attack

For many years now, the security industry has become somewhat reliant on ‘indicators of compromise’ (IoC) to act as clues...

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Are You Listening to Your Endpoints?

There’s plenty of interest in all kinds of advanced security technologies like threat intelligence, strong/dynamic authentication...

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The Detection Deficit

The gap between the ‘time to compromise’ and the ‘time to discover’ is the detection deficit. According to...

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Netsurion Defense Against Backoff

In the wake of BackOff, and numerous other data breaches, consumers are demanding answers into the how and why surrounding companies who...

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User Location Affinity

It’s clear that we are now working under the assumption of a breach. The challenge is to find the attacker before they cause damage. Once...

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Wireless Security for Business

In today’s business world, a major draw for many customers is the ability to stay connected while outside the office. In order to...

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How to shoot yourself in the foot with SIEM

Six ways to shoot yourself with SIEM technology: 1) Dont plan; just jump in 2) Have no defined scope or use cases; whatever 3) Confuse...

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Five quick wins to reduce exposure to insider threats

A data breach has serious consequences both directly and indirectly. Lost revenue and a tarnished brand reputation both inflict harm...

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Secure, Usable, Cheap: Pick any two

This fundamental tradeoff between security, usability, and cost is critical. Yes, it is possible to have both security and usability...

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Six Simple Rules For Safe Credit Card Handling

It is becoming more and more frequent to read about electronic data breaches in the news these days. Unfortunately, what is not touched...

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Four Key Steps to Rapid Incident Response

Is it possible to avoid security breaches? Judging from recent headlines, probably not. Victims range from startups like Kreditech, to...

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Death by a Thousand cuts

You may recall that back in 2012, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned of “a cyber Pearl Harbor; an attack that would cause...

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Enriching Event Log Monitoring by Correlating Non Event Security Information

Sometimes we get hung up on event monitoring and forget about the “I” in SIEM which stands for information. Not forgetting...

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Make Your Wireless Work For You

Whether we are talking about shoppers being students, families, or business execs, having the ability to interact with your guests via...

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The Pyramid of Pain

There is great excitement amongst security technology and service providers about the intersection of global threat intelligence with...

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Every Merchant Needs Electronic Data Protection

How many days go by between news stories involving computer breaches? The truth of the matter is that as long as sensitive data is...

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What good is Threat Intelligence integration in a SIEM?

Bad actors/actions are more and more prevalent on the Internet. Who are they? What are they up to? Are they prowling in your network...

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Why Naming Conventions are Important to Log Monitoring

Log monitoring is difficult for many reasons. For one thing there are not many events that unquestionably indicate an intrusion or...

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Why Risk Classification is Important

Traditional threat models posit that it is necessary to protect against all attacks. While this may be true for a critical national...

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State Sponsored Hacking – More Than an Issue for Sony

We live in a brave new world where the spies of yesteryear, like James Bond and Jason Bourne, are truly falling away into the realm of...

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How many people does it take to run a SIEM?

You must have a heard light bulb jokes, for example: How many optimists does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they’re...

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Five Steps to Protect Retailers from Credit Card Theft

The Georgia based fast food company, Chick-fil-A, has confirmed that it is investigating a potential credit card breach. The...

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Are honeypots illegal?

In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer system set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at...

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Backoff Has Been Upgraded Harder to Detect

So when you are a hacker and you write the most successful financial transaction hacking software in history, what do you do next? Well...

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Three key advantages for SIEM-As-A-Service

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology is an essential component in a modern defense-in-depth strategy for IT...

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IT Community Shaken By Shellshock Vulnerabilities

In the wake of Heartbleed, comes a new form of exposure that could potentially do much more damage than any other vulnerability of its...

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Top 5 Linux log file groups in/var/log

If you manage any Linux machines, it is essential that you know where the log files are located, and what is contained in them. From a...

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PCI 3.0 – A Wake Up Call for SAQ C Merchants

Most merchants who have been validating their PCI compliance for a few years now probably know which SAQ type applies to them. In PCI 2.0...

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Backoff Is the New Standard by Which Other Malware Will Be Judged

Every now and then hackers develop a piece of malware that is so insidious that it changes the landscape of computer security and...

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Case of the Disappearing Objects: How to Audit Who Deleted What in Active Directory

I often get asked how to audit the deletion of objects in Active Directory. It’s pretty easy to do this with the Windows Security...

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SIEM and Return on Investment: Four Pillars for Success

Return on investment (ROI) - it is the Achilles heel of IT management. Nobody minds spending money to avoid costs, prevent disasters, and...

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The 5 stages of SIEM Implementation

Are you familiar with the Kübler-Ross 5 Stages of Grief model? SIEM implementation (and indeed most enterprise software installations...

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Top 6 uses for SIEM

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a term coined by Gartner in 2005 to describe technology used to monitor and help...

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How to analyze login and pre-authentication failures for Windows Server 2003 R2 and below

Analyzing all the login and pre-authentication failures within your organization can be tedious. There are thousands of login failures...

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Netsurion services and OpenSSL the Heartbleed issue

Many of our customers and resellers have asked how Heartbleed affected Netsurion services. In a nutshell, the managed services that make...

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Will CIOs Be the Final Victim After a Breach

In the wake of their breach, Target announced on March 5, 2014 that their CIO, Beth Jacob was announcing her resignation. This begs the...

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Monitoring File Permission Changes with the Windows Security Log

Unstructured data access governance is a big compliance concern.  Unstructured data is difficult to secure because there’s so...

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There Is No Honor Among Thieves – Target Could Take Advantage of This

For the past several months, there have been numerous stories about major retailers that have been breached by hackers. The result is...

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About the PCI Security Standards Council

The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum, launched in 2006, that is responsible for the development, management...

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Looking back: Operation Buckshot Yankee & agent.btz

It was the fall of 2008. A variant of a three year old relatively benign worm began infecting U.S. military networks via thumb drives.

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Target Has A Bullseye On Its Chest

When Target announced that it had suffered a major breach of approximately 40 million credit cards and 70 million customer records, the...

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Why Comply with PCI Security Standards

Why should you, as a merchant, comply with the PCI Security Standards? At first glance, especially if you are a smaller organization, it...

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Christmas-Kids and Hackers Love This Time of Year

When people think of Christmas, most of them imagine family gatherings and good times. We often forget that from the end of Thanksgiving...

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Auditing File Shares with the Windows Security Log

Over the years, security admins have repeatedly asked me how to audit file shares in Windows.  Until Windows Server 2008, there were...

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Thieves Tried to Steal Credit Cards from Nordstrom

The department store giant garnered unwanted attention earlier this month when they announced that a Florida store fell victim to a team...

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PCI 3.0 Is Coming - Are You Ready?

Every 3 years the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) is updated to a new version. The time for the next release is right...

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Can Your Point of Sale Be Compliant after the End of Microsoft XP?

From a PCI compliance standpoint, merchants using Windows XP will have problems maintaining compliance...

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Does Your Call for Help Bring Hackers to Your Door?

There is a new trend facing people who rely on help desks. Hackers are targeting help desks because they know that the people who provide...

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Following a User’s Logon Tracks throughout the Windows Domain

What security events get logged when a user logs on to their workstation with a domain account and proceeds to run local applications and...

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What did Ben Franklin really mean?

In the aftermath of the disclosure of the NSA program called PRISM by Edward Snowden to a reporter at The Guardian...

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Balancing Privacy and Security

In the wake of the most recent terrorist bombing in Boston, it is easy to understand why some people...

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Square Cash - A Money Transfer Game Changer?

Square strives to make financial transactions simple enough so that the average person on the street...

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Using Dynamic Audit Policy to Detect Unauthorized File Access

One thing I always wished you could do in Windows auditing was mandate that access to an object be audited if the user was NOT a member...

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Internet Explorer 8 - People Still Love It, But There’s a Problem

This type of issue with a browser is so damaging because computer hackers who take advantage of it...

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Hackers May Just Look to Embarrass You

When you think about electronic security, what comes to mind? Do you consider how vulnerable your...

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How to Use Process Tracking Events in the Windows Security Log

I think one of the most underutilized features of Windows Auditing and the Security Log are Process Tracking events. In Windows 2003/XP...

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Universal Plug and Play - New Report on an Old Problem

In the dark ages of personal computers (1980′s and 90′s), you either needed to be a...

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Do Hackers Fear U.S. Jails?

In what should only be considered a victory for the U.S. DOJ, 2 of the 4 alleged Subway hackers responsible for potentially $10 Million...

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Top 4 Security Questions You Can Only Answer with Workstation Logon/Logoff Events

I often encounter a dangerous misconception about the Windows Security Log: the idea that you only need to monitor domain controller...

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Threatscape 2012 – Prevent, Detect, Correct

The past year has been a hair-raising series of IT security breakdowns and headlining events reaching as high as RSA itself falling...

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Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Task Unification through SIEM and Log Management

When we originally conceived the idea of SIEM and log management solution for IT managers many years ago, it was because of the...

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Virtualization Security What are the Real World Risks

There’s been a lot of recent hype about security risks with the rise of virtualization, but much of it is vague and short on...

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Security Logging as a Detective and Deterrent Control Against Rogue Admins

Intrusion detection and compliance are the focus of log management, SIEM and security logging.  But security logs, when managed...

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Logging for HIPAA Part 2; Secure auditing in Linux

HIPAA Logging HOWTO, Part 2 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) outlines relevant security and...

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Sustainable vs. Situational Values

I am often asked that if Log Management is so important to the modern IT department, then how come more than 80% of the market that...

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Logs vs Bots and Malware Today

Despite the fact that security industry has been fighting malicious software – viruses, worms, spyware, bots and other malware...

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MSSP /SaaS /Cloud Computing – Confused? I know I am

There is a lot of discussion around Security MSSPs, SaaS (Security as a Service) and Cloud Computing these days. I always felt I had a...

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SIEM: Security, Incident AND Event MANAGEMENT, not Monitoring!

Unfortunately, IT is not perfect; nothing in our world can be. Compounding the inevitable failures and weaknesses in any system designed...

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Why are Workstation Security Logs so Important?

No one needs to be convinced that monitoring Domain Controller security logs is important; member servers are equally as important: most...

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The Key Difference between “Account Logon” and “Logon/Logoff” Events in the Windows Security Log

An area of audit logging that is often confusing is the difference between two categories in the Windows security log: Account Logon...

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The Art of Detecting Malicious Activity with Logs

Randy Franklin Smith compares methods for detecting malicious activity from logs including monitoring for high impact changes, setting up...

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Logs for Insider Abuse Investigations

In most previous newsletters, we have discussed the use of logging for various regulatory mandates (such as PCI DSS, HIPAA and FISMA) as...

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Detecting Zeus, Logging for incident response, and more

Preparing the Infrastructure From all the uses for log data across the spectrum of security, compliance, and operations, using logs for...

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5 cyber security myths, the importance of time synchronization, and more

Time won't give me time: The importance of time synchronization for Log Management

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The EPS Myth

Often when I engage with a prospect their first question is “How many events per second (EPS) can EventTracker handle?&rdquo...

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The 5 W’s of Security Management

The 5 W’s of security management I’ve seen it happen about a thousand times if I’ve seen it once. A high profile...

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100 Log Management uses #29 Detecting XSS attacks

The number 1 vulnerability on the OWASP list is cross site scripting or XSS. XSS seems to have replaced SQL injection as the new favorite...

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5 Indicators of Endpoint Evil

With so much focus on security these days, it’s easy to imagine that IT departments are winning the battle against malware and...

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Choosing the Right SIEM

While there is little doubt that SIEM solutions are critical for compliance, security monitoring or IT optimization, it is getting harder...

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Co-sourcing SIEM

When outsourcing isn’t an option but SIEM proficiency is beyond the internal staff ’s expertise, a hybrid approach is...

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Five Code RED Security Threats to Windows Servers

The purpose of this white paper is to identify and demonstrate how to detect five of the most significant security threats. Critical...

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Leveraging Log Management to provide business value

Despite the obvious benefits of Log Management and its increasing recognition as a critical necessity by the IT organization, Log...

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Managing Billions of Logs Every Day

This paper highlights the major advantages of employing EventTracker to consolidate, correlate, and manage event log data by discussing...

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Managing The Virtualized Enterprise: New Technology, New Challenges

The benefits of employing virtualization in the corporate data center are compelling - lower operatingcosts, better resource utilization,...

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Network & Security Solutions Advisor

Netsurion offers solutions for Network Operations and Security Operations. Individually, they deliver powerful results. Together, they...

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Managing USB Mass Storage Devices

This White Paper discusses how you can take advantage of the power of high capacity USB storage devices like thumb/flash drives without...

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NIST 800-171 Compliant Quiz

The Department of Defense (DoD) is rolling out the CMMC for DoD contractors this year. This means that before bidding on DoD contracts...

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Monitoring Windows Workstations Seven Important Events

Monitoring event logs from workstations provides two important benefits. Firstly, it saves money by adopting a proactive approach to...

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MSP Path to Profit with Managed Security for SMBs

With cyberattacks targeting small- to medium- size businesses (SMBs), MSPs are finding themselves at the crossroads.

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Restaurant Technology Network Off-Premises Playbook

Netsurion is a proud early member of the Restaurant Technology Network (RTN). The RTN is a membership community dedicated to the...

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Security Beyond the Windows Event Log

This technical whitepaper describes the ten most critical security conditions that are not monitored by the Windows Operating System or...

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Spotting the Adversary with Windows Event Log Monitoring

An introduction to collecting important Windows workstation event logs and storing them in a central location for easier searching and...

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Top Ten Insider Threats

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