Hands-Free Security episode 1 In early 2019, Swimlane is launching a new podcast titled Hands-Free Security. During each episode, Hands-Free Security provides a platform for security thought leaders and subject matter experts to have impactful discussions on a variety of ...
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Industry-wide, security operations centers (SOCs) are struggling with overworked, understaffed teams; more alerts than they can handle; and increasingly sophisticated bad actors. Thought leaders agree a breach is not a matter of if but when. From intellectual property to proprietary ...
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You’re a manager, director or CISO struggling with the daily influx of countless alarms. Your analysts and engineers are exhausted, and your security operations center (SOC) only seems to scratch the surface of incident response. A security orchestration, automation and ...
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Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) goes beyond optimizing your security operations center (SOC) by integrating your people, processes and technology. Visit us at MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit 2018, booth #402, to learn how! Why SOAR for measuring ROI? If you’re ...
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Measuring ROI for something like a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solution within a security operations center (SOC) goes beyond saved time and prevented breaches. There’s a human element. I sat down with Rebekah Wilke, the latest addition to ...
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Endpoint security often comes to mind first when people think about protecting their organization from hackers and cyberattacks. It involves ensuring that all possible points of entry into critical systems, applications or physical devices are protected from unwanted visitors who ...
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Cyber forensic investigations are a critical component of any incident response process. While such investigations are important, gathering forensic details post-incident can be a cumbersome manual task. But with the right solutions in place–and fully integrated—you can significantly streamline investigations ...
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Terms and acronyms can get convoluted in the ever-growing security marketplace. As an example, many use SIEM and SOAR interchangeably. Although security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) have capabilities that complement each other ...
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Each summer, Swimlane hosts interns in collaboration with the University of Colorado Law School’s Silicon Flatirons Center’s Startup Summer program—a 10-week program that brings undergraduate students from around the country to Denver and Boulder for the summer experience of a ...
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Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) goes beyond automating tasks that used to be handled manually by working together to effectively, and even proactively, improve your cybersecurity operations. SOAR—sometimes also referred to as security automation and orchestration—combines technical capabilities and ...
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Swimlane 3.2 is here! Visit us at Black Hat, booth #2304, to check out the latest release of our comprehensive security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform. So, what's new? Swimlane 3.0 introduced prebuilt applications and modular applets, allowing you ...
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Gartner defines threat intelligence as “evidence-based knowledge, including context, mechanisms, indicators, implications and actionable advice, about an existing or emerging menace or hazard to assets that can be used to inform decisions regarding the subject’s response to that menace or ...
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In the constantly-evolving world of cybercrime and cybersecurity, proactivity is key. Organizations must engage in regular cyber threat hunting techniques and processes to stay ahead of evolving threats. Putting up perimeter defenses and watching for attacks can leave an organization ...
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Detecting and proactively preventing external cyberattacks is a focus for security operations (SecOps) teams, but insider attacks also pose a risk. In fact, nearly 75% of data breaches are caused byinsider threats. Whether insiders maliciously intend to attack organizations, neglect ...
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Organizations can no longer be passive when it comes to security. By the time an active threat is detected, quarantined and terminated, it’s often already too late. In order to truly protect and defend their organization, security operations (SecOps) teams ...
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A playbook is defined as a set of rules, describing at least one action to be executed with input data and triggered by one or more events. It is a critical component of cybersecurity—especially in relation to security automation and ...
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Swimlane will be attending RSA 2018 in San Francisco from April 16 to 20th! Stop by our booth to see a demo of the upcoming release of Swimlane 3.0 and to enter our giveaway. Meet us in the North Expo ...
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There’s a shortage of places for security operations (SecOps) professionals to share knowledge around security automation and orchestration. Automation and orchestration within SecOps are still new and disruptive concepts, and many experts and security veterans are beginning to pick up ...
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If you’re even a casual fan of the original Star Trek, you’ll be familiar with Scotty’s signature phrase, “I can’t do it, Captain! I don’t have the power!” Or better, when he uttered the famous line, “I can’t change the ...
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With increasing cyber threats, more organizations are using a variety of tools to monitor and manage security. Security information and event management (SIEM) systems are popular solutions that promise to monitor and alert your security operations (SecOps) team of potential ...
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