From Reactive to Proactive: How to Avoid Alert Fatigue

Alert fatigue. As cybersecurity teams and technologies get better at detecting threats, they are also becoming more inundated with alerts, warnings, and notifications. As a result, IT and cybersecurity professionals become desensitized to alerts, and may be less inclined to address them. In fact, 80% of organizations that receive more than 500 critical alerts per day investigate less than 1% of them1 . Many refer to this issue as “alert fatigue” since the constant barrage leaves you with too many alerts and not nearly enough time to respond to them all. If your team receives hundreds of alerts a day that are all labelled as the highest priority (or worse, not prioritized at all), how can they possibly know where to begin and which fires to put out first? Choosing incorrectly or not knowing where to begin wastes precious resources and may allow breaches to persist in your network for longer.

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Protecting Against Sophisticated Bot Attacks

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Bot-generated attacks have risen in visibility, and defending against these attacks is now a priority for most organizations. Yet challenges persist in accurately identifying bot traffic; protecting a distributed, heterogeneous application environment from these attacks; and minimizing the impact to legitimate users while doing so. To address these issues, intelligent protection against sophisticated bots is a necessity. This should include strong analytics coupled with human expertise, a frictionless user experience, and consistent coverage across different architectures and platforms. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, built on Google Cloud, supports these requirements and can help prevent fraud and abuse against public-facing web applications.

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Network Traffic Analysis (NTA): A Cybersecurity ‘Quick Win’

whitePaper | February 27, 2020

According to research from ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), 91% of cybersecurity professionals believe that most organizations are either extremely or somewhat vulnerable to a significant cyber-attack or data breach.1 This level of cyber-risk demands immediate attention and action from CISOs, CIOs, and business executives. As a result, 62% of organizations plan to increase cybersecurity spending in 2020.2 Here’s the problem: Increasing security budgets alone isn’t enough. CISOs need quick and easy wins that can greatly bolster security efficacy and streamline operations without demanding massive projects and vast resources. There is a lot of work ahead. This white paper concludes.

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Aerospace cybersecuirty- Bringing a zero-trust approach to aviation product network design

whitePaper | May 18, 2022

Modern aerospace products are moving into containerization and micro-services. Mounting connected internal micro-services patterns in a product segregates and segments the network to support a zero-trust network security approach. Having weak internal network security of the product allows malicious actors to exploit them and elevate privileges — denying users access, jamming signals, or even shutting them down. Such interference could cause major harm to aircraft safety and operations.

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Cisco Spaces – Privacy and Data Protection

whitePaper | December 2, 2022

Cisco Spaces is an indoor location services cloud platform that provides wireless customers with rich locationbased services, including location analytics, business insight, customer experience management, asset tracking, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) management, and API.

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Embracing Security Operations in the Educational Sector

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

Nearly every part of the educational sector has fallen victim to a cyberattack, from elementary schools to universities. Securing education is no longer a “nice to have” but a “must do” and is a growing concern among the global educational community. Creating and maintaining effective information security and cybersecurity operations in education comes down to people, processes, and tools. It’s crucial for IT and security leaders across the entire spectrum of educational institutions to find the right balance between the three. While there are success stories of achieving that balance, there’s always more to do to identify, understand, and mitigate cybersecurity risks to these organizations. Establishing and improving existing cybersecurity operations must become a priority.

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Ransomware Data Recovery Architectures

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years. They are extremely insidious in nature and have been foremost in many CEOs’ and CIOs’ minds lately. Ransomware is malware that prevents an enterprise from accessing and using its data, usually by encrypting the data in an inconspicuous manner so the victim does not know the attack is occurring.

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Insource Technology

Insource is a Houston-based information technology services provider. The company was started in 1992 by Compaq Computer Corporation founders Rod Canion and Jim Harris, who had the goal of implementing the best solutions possible for our clients – solutions built to withstand the test of time. Over 20 years later, that’s still our goal.

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