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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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Hybrid Application Security

Hybrid Security is a cyber-security company, offering Behavior-Based Web Fraud Detection. Our mission is to provide one innovative solution to mitigate a wide range of threats, undetectable by conventional web security systems. Founded in 2010, Hybrid Security employs some of the most innovative software engineers, specializing in various disciplines like computer security, big data, and machine learning. Utilizing an innovative approach to cyber security and detecting a wide range of threats. Hybrid Security was founded to provide an auto-deductive solution in a static web security world. In the past 25 years cyber web detection has been based on the use of static rules to identify malicious attacks. This approach has been proven ineffective in detecting and investigating new attacks, Zero-Day-Attacks, for the lack of evidence.

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OT/IoT Security Report Cyber War Insights, Threats and Trends, Recommendations

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

Nozomi Networks Labs is dedicated to reducing cyber risk for the world’s industrial and critical infrastructure organizations. Through its cybersecurity research and collaboration with industry and institutions, it helps defend the operational systems that support everyday life. The Labs team conducts investigations into industrial device vulnerabilities and, through a responsible disclosure process, contributes to the publication of advisories by recognized authorities.

identity and zero trust - H-ISAC

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

These days, you can’t have a conversation about cybersecurity without talking about zero trust. The security concept requires that all individuals and devices on a network be continuously authenticated, authorized, and monitored. Gone are the days of letting someone in the front door, giving them a role with access privileges and then having them go about their merry way.

Cybersecurity and Financial SystemResilience Report

whitePaper | July 27, 2022

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20211 (CAA) requires the Federal Reserve Board (Board) to submit annually for seven years a report focused on cybersecurity to Congress. The CAA calls for a description of measures the Board has undertaken to strengthen cybersecurity within the financial services sector and with respect to the Board’s functions as a regulator, including the supervision and regulation of financial institutions and third-party service providers.

Security Operations Maturity Model

whitePaper | February 20, 2020

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, your cybersecurity efforts must follow suit. With your security operations center (SOC) at the core of your offense against threats, you must ensure that it can handle anything that comes its way. To be effective, you need to mature your SOC to stop threats early — before damage occurs. Whether your SOC is a virtual team of two to three or a 24x7 operation, maturing your security operations capabilities will help you achieve a faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to cyberthreats. This white paper explores LogRhythm’s Security Operations Maturity Model (SOMM), which explains how to measure the effectiveness of your security operations. Through the model, you can learn how to mature your security operations capabilities, improving your resilience to cyberthreats.

Cyber Security for Business

whitePaper | December 17, 2019

At CGI, cyber security is part of everything we do. For more than 40 years, we have helped clients manage complex security challenges with a business focused approach – protecting what is most valuable to them. As our economy becomes even more digital in nature, securing our organisations against cyber-attacks and data breaches has become one of the most important business issues facing senior management.

From Reactive to Proactive: How to Avoid Alert Fatigue