Category: Security Operations Center
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The Road Map to Illinois Being a Centralizing Force in Cyber Security
Illinois is known as the transportation hub of the United States, utilizing Chicago and its geographical center in America. In 2019, The State of Illinois did a major push through the budget to fund large investments into data centers around northern Illinois. The state’s investment in its infrastructure, bolstered by House Bill 3293 (HB 3293),… Read more
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Proactive Strategies and Privileged Access Management for Mitigating Insider Risks
The digital world we work in keeps changing just like our work environments. As cybersecurity analysts, we try to understand and boost our defenses against many possible threats. Insider risk presents a special challenge that needs a different approach compared to external attacks. Insider risk isn’t always about bad intentions. It can come from accidental… Read more
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Preparing Global SOCs for Emerging Cyber Threat Trends
The cyber threat landscape is evolving as threats shift to emerging technologies. Today, it is not just healthcare, finance, or a government institution. Organizations and infrastructures of all kinds, from ransomware that paralyzes or shuts down operations to supply-chain breaches that expose sensitive data, are in the crosshairs of rampant cybercriminals who are constantly evolving… Read more
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Burnout and Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity workers operate in an environment where they must protect against the constantly evolving tactics of cyber criminals. Often the systems created to support defensive operations can generate excessive noise for analysts who must filter through a flood of alerts which frequently contain numerous false positives. When cybersecurity professionals face these relentless streams of alerts, they can… Read more
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The Future of Cybersecurity in 2025
Cybersecurity is always changing, with new threat actors and technologies emerging all the time. By 2025, we’ll see big shifts in how we protect our digital spaces. Key areas will include cloud security, AI, zero-trust systems, and the blending of cyber and physical threats. Staying ahead of this evolving landscape will require an understanding of… Read more
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History, Current Uses, and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence was theorized in 1956 by John Mcarthy. He got many of the core concepts right, but he was around seven decades off. Martin Bellman invented this equation in 1959. We do not need to dive into the nuances of this equation, but know that this equation started the first phase of AI. This… Read more
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Shortening Incident Response Time and Dealing with Critical Global Emergencies.
There is not even a handful of years left to know what cybersecurity is today. As threats in cyber evolve and become ever more sophisticated, our IR (Incident Response) must adapt accordingly. At DefendEdge, we have accepted this shift from the reactive mindset to the initiative-taking approach to deliver faster, more effective responses to emergency… Read more
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Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Cybersecurity regulation has evolved over the years. This has become the norm as technology is constantly advancing and being used in new and scary ways. Similar to how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, otherwise known as HIPPA, tells administrators who can view patient information and how that information must be protected digitally, cybersecurity… Read more