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CIO vs. CISO vs. CPO: What's The Difference?
The lines dividing three roles — CIO, CISO and CPO — can get blurry. Let’s make it clear and easy to understand what these three Chiefs do!
The Incident Commander Role: Duties & Best Practices for ICs
Oh no, a critical incident has just happened. Chaos everywhere, but who is in charge? The Incident Commander, of course. Get all the details on the IC role here.
Cyber Counterintelligence (CCI): Offensive & Defensive Strategies for Cybersecurity
How do you gather intelligence about the bad actors trying to infiltrate your systems? Cyber counterintelligence offers defensive and offensive approaches.
Common Event Format (CEF): An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll take a look at common event format (CEF) s a standard for the interoperability of event- or log generating devices and applications.
What Is Data Analytics? The 4 Analytics Types You Need To Know
Data analytics is a whole world of information that you can glean meaning from. See the 4 types of data analytics any business practice needs today.
Monitoring vs Observability vs Telemetry: What's The Difference?
Don’t be confused, be creative. Observability is a lot more than mere monitoring. In fact, the possibilities are practically endless. Find out more here.
Canonical Data Models (CDMs) Explained
Take control of your organization's data mess. Canonical data models will reduce the work you do to your data. Find out exactly how to get started.
Ransomware Families & RaaS Groups
Every 19 seconds a ransomware attack launches. Are these standalone attacks? Are they operating within a ransomware family of shared knowledge? Find out here.
Threat Hunting vs. Threat Detecting: What's The Difference?
Hunting threats, detecting threats. Sounds the same — but they are not! Get tons of info (+ free resources) for prevention methods that underpin cybersecurity.
The Triple DES Intro: Triple Data Encryption Standard
Triple DES is an encryption standard that’s NIST-approved for use through 2030. Let’s see how it works and when you want — and don’t want — to use it.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography: An Introduction
Let’s see how elliptic curve cryptography works, in this digestible, less academic look that still thoroughly explains this technical topic.
Splunk OnDemand Services: An Introduction & Example
Get started with Splunk OnDemand Services (ODS), an advisory service that bridges the gap between Technical Support and project-based services delivered by Professional Services.
Honeypots Explained: Hitting Hackers Where It Hurts
Entice hackers to your system to gather cyberthreat intelligence. Get the latest on honeypot types and interactions and see why it isn’t all so sweet.
Advanced Encryption Standard & AES Rijndael Explained
Learn all about AES Rijndael, today's go-to algorithm that won a NIST competition for ensuring data confidentiality — and it does much more than that!
Network Security Monitoring (NSM) Explained
Network security monitoring sounds like other security measures like intrusion detection. Find out why it's not — and what makes it so useful for IT today.
Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS) Explained
Perhaps unsurprisingly, cybercrime is now available for hire. Harnessing the ‘as a service’ model, find out how cybercrime can be enacted by practically anyone.
Cryptography 101: Key Principles, Major Types, Use Cases & Algorithms
Cryptography underpins so many digital interactions — you might not even realize it. Get the full story on cryptography, use cases and emerging types.
Cybersecurity Risk Management: 5 Steps for Assessing Risk
Don’t just guess your risk profile — assess it! Learn about cybersecurity risk management and apply these 5 steps to turn the process into an ongoing practice.
Corporate Espionage: What You Need To Know
Cyber threats are not only anonymous. Find out why people you know, and perhaps partner with, are spying on you — and whether it’s corporate espionage.
Denial-of-Service Attacks: History, Techniques & Prevention
DoS attacks have a long history, but they’re also predicted to get worse in 2023. Find out the many ways they work and learn to prevent them in the first place.
Encryption Explained: At Rest, In Transit & End-To-End Encryption
Humans have encrypted messages for millennia. Today it’s essentially part of daily life. Understand how it works — and decide if you need end-to-end encryption.
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