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24 Mar Trend du jour: Insider threats — Are you next?

March 24, 2016 by Bev Robb

We've all heard that users can be a companies weakest link—whether deliberate or through negligence—employees (and ex-employees) are increasingly creating security risks within their organizations. With insider threats rapidly becoming the trend du jour—companies need to amp up vigilance. You also have to consider ex-insiders who may go rogue. In the recent Ofcom breach, an ex-employee went rogue and handed over approximately six...

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Fortscale Partners with FireEye's Cyber Security Coalition CSC

02 Mar Email Alert Subscriptions – New Fortscale 2.5 Feature

March 2, 2016 by Bill Bosen

In today’s blog post, I want to briefly introduce you to a nifty new feature that’s part of the Fortscale 2.5 release. This new “email subscription” capability is designed to help security analysts and their supervisors keep track of, and stay up to date with their company’s security alerts and related trends. Incoming incidents As you would expect, analysts or other security...

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Fortscale Partners with FireEye's Cyber Security Coalition CSC

01 Mar Out-of-the-Box UEBA for Protection of Additional Systems

March 1, 2016 by Bill Bosen

As I’ve evaluated various User/Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions that are available today, I’ve concluded that nearly all of them can evaluate SIEM data and logs from common, everyday access controls systems in order to find basic user anomalies. But I, like most security analysts, am more concerned about detecting suspicious behavior and cybercrime activity in my databases and specific...

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22 Feb Data Breach? Not IF, but When

February 22, 2016 by Bill Bosen

I first heard the phrase a number of years ago: “There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked and those that don’t yet know they’ve been hacked”. Although there are still some security professionals who disagree, I think that for the most part, the industry has now accepted that this is true, and that we need to...

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