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Recapping the Alert Logic and AWS Cybersecurity Summit

Recapping the Alert Logic and AWS Cybersecurity Summit

Making sense of cybersecurity strategies was the theme to kick off the Alert Logic and AWS Cybersecurity Summit in June – three days of exchanging strategies, technical insights, and best practices to achieve cloud security and compliance, respond to threats faster, and improve productivity. A panel consisting of experts from AWS, industry analyst ESG, and Alert Logic opened with a lively roundtable discussion of the key trends, challenges, and solutions for securing workloads on AWS. It’s worth capturing a few top takeaways.

Security and the Success of your Cloud Transformation

Security and the Success of your Cloud Transformation

It’s clear that the success of any material cloud transformation will be significantly impacted by security considerations. As organizations plan for these moves, it’s critical to set expectations and measures for security and to consider the optimal means of satisfying these needs. 

Containers 101: What Is Container Security and How Does It Work?

Containers 101: What Is Container Security and How Does It Work?

With container adoption on the rise, having a reliable container security solution is more important than ever. Gartner analysts predict that “90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2026—up from 40% in 2021.”

The increase in container usage is accompanied by a concern of growing container security threats targeting container services. Threat vectors aimed at services like Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services are guaranteed to increase as more businesses adopt containers or expand their existing container networks.

Analytics Engines: Mastering Your Mounds of Data for Greater Cybersecurity

Analytics Engines: Mastering Your Mounds of Data for Greater Cybersecurity

Keeping your critical business systems secure can be a challenge when they produce terabytes of data daily. How do you process that data to ensure the best security outcomes? One of the core technologies leading this crucial effort are analytics engines, as they bring order to chaos and drive appropriate outcomes for effective cybersecurity.  

The 4 Primary Benefits of MDR

The 4 Primary Benefits of MDR

EDR can do wonders for organizations, protecting against far more threats than they could on their own, but that protection stops at the endpoint, and businesses quickly reach a point where they must go looking for additional protection.

Once they’ve had time to sort through all the available options and select the best fit for the business (such as MSSP, XDR, EDR, etc.), many find that the ideal solution is managed detection and response (MDR). 

How to Keep up with the Pace of Constant Innovation

How to Keep up with the Pace of Constant Innovation

It’s no secret that organizations must constantly innovate in order to remain competitive in today’s market. However, each one ultimately reaches a point where they’re faced with tough choices — choices that determine whether they’ll be able to continue innovating at a competitive velocity. 

Inviting in the Attacker: Cybersecurity in Retail

Inviting in the Attacker: Cybersecurity in Retail

Today, customers who have become accustomed to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic want to browse entire ranges and catalogues at the click of a button and swipe of a finger. For retailers, this means having a greater ecommerce platform across mobile and website. But the stark reality is their digital attack surface will be larger as a result, opening up opportunities that invite the cyber attacker in. Managing the growing threats and vulnerabilities associated with ecommerce shopping could be the biggest challenge yet for retailers.

Learning from the Colonial Pipeline Hack: Better Protection through MDR

Learning from the Colonial Pipeline Hack: Better Protection through MDR

Like most ransomware attacks, the Colonial Pipeline attack was a well-known risk in the cybersecurity industry and purchased through a ransomware-as-a-service on the dark web. Although unfortunate, it highlights to organizations, big and small, the importance of not just being prepared to react after an attack, but to take the appropriate steps before an attack to prevent it from ever occurring.

MDR vs. MSSP: 6 Major Differences

MDR vs. MSSP: 6 Major Differences

MDR vs. MSSP? These two solutions are commonly used and often go head-to-head in the industry, as many perceive them to be relatively similar. However, upon digging deeper, you’ll find that while each have their own benefits, they also come with some significant differences — differences that can make or break your decision.

In this post, we’ll examine six such differences that you should be aware of when selecting a cybersecurity solution and how to decide which is best suited for your organization.

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