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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Everything the Cisco-Splunk merger tells us about the rise of SIEMs

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LW: Why are suppliers of legacy firewall, vulnerability management and EDR solutions also now integrating SIEM capabilities? We use machine learning models on open choice big data lakes to detect unknown threats early in the attack chain. Security teams needed greater visibility across their operating environment.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

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Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak, a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam in just half a decade has raised an eye-popping $115 million in venture capital, grown to almost 350 employees and reaped over 100 percent revenue growth in each of the last three years. Here are a few takeaways: Very Big Data.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

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The pursuit of agile software has companies, large and small,at consumed in rapidly developing and tossing into service software meant to function far beyond the perimeters of legacy company networks, in the wide-open Internet cloud. Salt Security is taking a big data and automation approach to this monumental challenge, Isbitski told me.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

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It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. It was unleashed on the internet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and began infecting computers at various universities. This was considered a significant win for the U.S. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: Striving for contextual understanding as digital transformation plays out

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Perhaps the biggest change lies in the way the rules are generated and maintained, where once a pool of highly skilled and experienced cybersecurity analysts iterated and codified actions as lovingly-maintained rules, today big data systems power machine learning systems to train complex classifiers and models.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

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Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. But that hasn’t been enough. Talk more soon.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

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Different flavors of cloud architectures, sprawling IoT systems and the coming wide deployment of 5G networks add up to not just Big Data, but Very Big Data. Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak , a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam appears to be on the right track. Talk more soon.

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