Security operations teams are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges from nation-state actors turning their attention to financial crime, to rising uncertainty and potential complexities because of rapidly advancing cloud migration and IoT adoption, to the long-lamented skills shortage. Now imagine having to face this trifecta without visibility into …

As we help our customers evolve their security approaches for the cloud era, two key objectives based on Google’s experience defending our own infrastructure and systems, emerge: trust nothing and detect everything. These can seem like daunting tasks for even the most capable security teams, especially in today …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Oct. 29, 2019. Much the same way that nursing teams need to share patient healthcare updates when their shift ends, security operations centers (SOC) need to have smooth shift-handoff procedures in place to ensure that continuous monitoring of their …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Feb. 19, 2021. The number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs stretches into the millions, and a critical part of the problem is the length of time it takes to backfill a position. Industry group ISACA has found that the average …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on April 29, 2021. With cybersecurity moving from backroom to boardroom, and the societal imperative that workplace cultures renounce toxicity for more sensitivity and tolerance, there is a rapidly-growing call for empathy to pervade the infosec function, from the CISO …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on October 6, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many organizations’ timelines to transition to the cloud and advance their digital transformation efforts. The potential attack surfaces for those organizations also grew as newly distributed workforces used unmanaged technologies. While some …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on April 12, 2022. The success of the modern security operations center, despite the infusion of automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, remains heavily dependent on people. This is largely due to the vast amounts of data a security operations …