Cybersecurity Insights from Vertek
November 2018
Latest from the Vertek Blog
What is a SIEM and why does
my customer need one?
What can organizations do to protect themselves in today’s cloud-based, mobile era? The first step is setting up enterprise protections that extend way beyond the firewall where applications and data, devices, and remote users are. The next step is putting tools and processes in place to manage the flood of information about security information and events generated across the enterprise: Enter SIEM.
Ask these critical questions about compliance and Managed Threat Intelligence (MTI)
IT compliance management is often a manual and tedious effort. While a SIEM or Security Information and Event Management tool can help automate much of the effort required to collect ‘compliance data points, a SIEM stops well short of being a one-stop-shop for compliance management. This is where Managed Threat Intelligence (MTI) comes into play. The best MTI solutions go way beyond identifying threat information and collecting logs from critical sources like firewalls, servers, and switches. When you’re looking to beef up your compliance management and security management strategy, ask these critical questions.
What's Happening in Cyber Security
AlienVault: Exploits targeting IoT, info sharing on the rise
AlienVault, part of our core Managed Security stack, publishes a semi-annual Trends Report based on findings from its community of 100,000+ security pros. The most recent report cited two interesting trends: Server exploits have increased, with IoT appearing on the Top 10 list for the first time, resulting in fewer Microsoft-target attacks making the list. Here’s a summary of the report.

[VIDEO] VBA Stomping Advanced Malware Techniques
Vertek Security Engineers attended DerbyCon, an annual gathering where hackers and security pros share insights on emerging cybersecurity threats. One hot topic was Macro-Obfuscation, a technique used to hide from and evade Anti-Virus. We see customers fall victim to these ‘malspam’ email attacks every month, and it takes a comprehensive managed threat intelligence approach to detect these types of threats. Check out a deep-dive talk on how unassuming Office documents can hide serious malware.

Why cybersecurity is the new priority for CFOs
Surveys show that 40% of IT professionals don't believe the C-suite takes cybersecurity seriously enough. Tech experts estimate the average data breach costs about $27m. Executives, in stark contrast, estimate the damage around $6m.
This issue is particularly pertinent to CFOs because managing financial risk is their core responsibility.


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If your customer already has a SIEM, chances are they struggle to keep it tuned to reduce excessive ‘noise’ from false alerts which can lead to missing real threats. Plus they don’t have time to customize reporting and analytics to what their organization really needs. Vertek can quickly perform a 5-point inspection on an existing AlienVault SIEM and deliver a free benchmark report on performance issues and improvement suggestions.
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