The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2021

Primary vectors take the form of phishing campaigns, supply chain corruption and ransomware attacks, like the one that recently resulted in the shut down of Colonial Pipeline. What’s happening is that digital transformation, while providing many benefits, has also dramatically expanded the attack surface. “An

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. SIEMs failed to live up to their hype in the decade after they were first introduced in 2005.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. The earliest SIEMs cropped up around 2005 or so.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko had read some of my reporting on Netsky, which Skynet backwards, a virus also known as Sasser, was a typical virus-of-the-day back in 2005. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Hypponen: I think the big shift has been around ransomware groups going after the biggest possible talks. So it pays off.

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