Active cyber defense strategies unless do not violate regulation and law of the land are considered now as appropriate direct action to counter threats.  Today’s security business function should have everything it needs to mount a competent defense of the ever-changing enterprise landscape 

Organization continue to have ageing vulnerabilities remained unpatched and its serious problem that need solution that are effective to reduce the time that vulnerability discovered and patched.  Listen to the four key strategic recommendations.

Organization need to detect the threat quickly and do not want to waste time investigating false negative alerts, thereby remediate the vulnerabilities and mitigating the attack vector more quickly.  There are many cyber threat intelligence service providers in the market, and the number appears to be growing. Not all services that are marketed as threat intelligence actually provide that type of content, so it is important to understand what problem customers are trying to solve 

 Perimeter-based security approaches are no longer sufficient. The starting point for devising a micro-segmentation is discovering and identifying all the application flows within the data center. Listen to this podcast to understand it better. 

Studies have indicated that most security breaches in the cloud (such as AWS) are due to settings errors, which a data breach costing an average of $6.5M, according to Cloudnosys.  Amazon has two primary areas of focus for cybersecurity and data protection: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and smart home security. 

After several cyber security and privacy issues reported against Facebook, its time to re-look their process, people and technology. Facebook began revamping its privacy policy, has restricted data access to various APIs, implemented a more stringent review process, and announced the hiring of an estimated 10,000 new employees who will focus on combating data breaches and monitoring content. 

Internet connectivity is a two-way street. With these devices becoming a gateway to our homes, workplaces, and sensitive data, they also become targets for attacks. Lets learn what industry is doing with it and what recommendations are to be kept in mind while building security strategies. 

Most organizations operate with limited financial and resource constraints, they need to prioritize security activities to maximize business benefits.  When communicating to board on security financial reporting, its important to provide visibility beyond security operations and infrastructure. The measurements, metrics and reporting are vital in any security business. Read more in my blog - https://rasoolirfan.com/2019/04/04/importance-of-security-operational-metrics-and-reports/

Backstory will become the backbone of many managed security service providers. In this episode, lets learn about Chronicle (Google Alphabet's project X moon shot) contribution to cyber security. Read my blog for more details https://rasoolirfan.com/2019/03/26/revolutionary-threat-hunting-platform-for-massive-data/ 

MITRE evaluates cybersecurity products using an open methodology based on our ATT&CK™ framework. In this podcast, lets get some basic knowledge on MITRE's contribution to industry with ATT&CK framework.