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Gaining Insights Across Cloud & Hybrid Environments

At Splunk, we make it easy for agencies to turn mountains of machine data in their Amazon Web Services (AWS) and hybrid environments into valuable business, operational and security insights that improve their businesses. Get inspiration for what you can do for your agency by downloading your complimentary copy of...

8 Biggest Mistakes IT Practitioners Make & How to Avoid Them

Agencies struggle with numerous IT monitoring challenges - hybrid environments, lack of visibility during cloud migration, multiple monitoring tools, reliance on manual processes and more. According to a 2018 global survey, less than half of IT practitioners are confident they can ensure performance and system...

Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach

Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. Cloud workloads are vulnerable to data breaches, account compromises, and resource exploitation. Read Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach to follow the dissection of a...

How to Ensure Data Privacy in Public Clouds

The trend of moving applications, data and infrastructure to public clouds in unrelenting. While the transition is a strategic move to transform operations, improve the customer experience, and reduce costs, this spreading of data across multiple hosting centers complicates DDoS mitigation strategies and leads to...

The Seven Essentials of an Analytics-Driven SIEM

SIEM (security information and event management) software offers a lot of promise, but legacy SIEMs simply can't keep up with the rate and sophistication of today's cyberattacks. Organizations today require access to analytics-driven SIEMs that combine a big data platform that is optimized for machine data with...

5 Reasons why you need a Cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

DDoS attacks. Bad bots. Web server vulnerability exploits. The number of threats to websites and internet-facing applications is growing every day. The best way to protect your business from harmful incoming web traffic is to block it with a powerful web application firewall (WAF). But not just any WAF will do. It's...

The Top Five Ways to Relieve the Pain of Managing Hybrid AD Environments

Currently, nearly ninety percent of organizations worldwide are using Active Directory (AD) for on-premises resources (aka on-prem). That represents 500 million organizations and somewhere around 10 billion daily authentications. In fact, in the world of identity and access management (IAM), AD has become...

The Internet Edge: A Global Blindspot that Must be Fixed Now

Cyberattackers don't care how your Internet Edge should be configured. Most cyberattacks start with the exploitation of an insecure or unknown asset that is connected to the public internet. Security teams lack visibility into their Internet Edge as well as global context to address the risks of external Internet...

Tech Brief: Discovering Your Total Cloud Footprint

In order to gain complete visibility into all of your organization's cloud assets, you cannot focus just on assets managed within known IaaS accounts. You must index everything routable on the public Internet to discover all your cloud assets, including those outside management, to ensure nothing is missed. Learn...

Scaling for High-Performance Security

As the guardians of their enterprises' ever-expanding attack surfaces, security architects look for more effective ways to deliver threat protection and to coordinate it with threat detection and remediation. Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), which typically anchor security architectures, are the linchpins of...

Three Steps to Securing Enterprise Data on Cloud Platforms

Enterprises have leveraged cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to facilitate web applications for years, and the platforms have proven effective and reliable. That's why many enterprises have begun taking advantage of the scalability provided by these...

Five Approaches to a Consistently Evolving Cyber Security Program

The consistency challenges that enterprise security teams are faced with has never been more complex, especially for the role of a CISO. The CISO's team - from security architects, engineers and analysts to program managers - spends most of its time managing the balancing act of keeping tools & technology working...

Information Security Program Health Monitoring Guide

When managing an enterprise security platform, visibility into the innerworkings of all the security tools and processes present in the environment is critical, but it's often the last measure put in place, if at all. This lack of visibility makes it difficult to ensure systems operate correctly and increases the...

The State of Enterprise Encryption and How to Improve It

Almost 70% of organizations are very concerned about the lack of control over files as they travel outside the network. The 2019 State of Encryption survey report explores the use of encryption and access controls to understand how organizations currently use these technologies, and identifies IT and security...

The Benefits of Privileged Access Management (PAM) in the Cloud

Companies are moving to the cloud in greater numbers than ever, targeting flexibility and access for their increasingly distributed workforces. But cloud migration of critical resources, even a portion for hybrid environments, presents serious security challenges and risks on many levels. The cloud is an attractive...