Forrester-Led Webinar: Connecting the Relationship Between Threat Intelligence and Adversary

Active Directory out of the box defaults aren’t enough to keep your network safe. Here’s the word on the street about frustrating attackers in your Active Directory environment. It’s easy to make things hard. But it’s not hard to make things easy. Spin that how you will, running Active Directory efficiently isn’t necessarily easy, but it certainly can be easy to make things hard for attackers in your environment. Here are some baseline things you can do to make your Active Directory environment frustrating for attackers. Attackers’ main resource is time, and if you can slow them down and frustrate them, you have a better chance of making attackers look for easier targets, or at least more time for your response team to identify and protect your assets.

Data security is a constant challenge for most organizations. The average ransomware attack costs a company $5 million, and it takes organizations an average of 191 days to identify data breaches. However, only 25% of organizations today have a dedicated security department in IT (source: CSOOnline). View this on-demand webinar to learn 5 simple ways to leverage your existing management tools and data to improve your IT security, detecting breaches and compromised systems faster and more effectively without having to invest in new tools.

Security tools alone are not enough as your AWS environment becomes more complex, and the need for comprehensive security – including people, process, and technology – becomes apparent. Cyber threats continue to increase in volume and sophistication, so where do you start when incorporating advanced threat detection and response capabilities into your security strategy? Start here with Ryan Holland, Senior Director, Technology Services Group at Alert Logic and Orlando Scott-Cowley, Principal Evangelist at AWS as they list the top considerations to better protect your AWS workloads and applications.

Understanding your complex cloud environment is tricky. Workloads, containers, and serverless functions are added and removed constantly. Vulnerabilities are endless. Security staff is in short supply. But here’s the reality: cloud security is built in incremental steps. And process improvement involves multiple stakeholders — not just security teams.