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American Water Shuts Down Services After Cybersecurity Breach

eSecurity Planet

The American Water cyber breach has sparked conversations about the importance of cybersecurity in safeguarding essential services and the growing frequency of cyber threats targeting public utilities. Here are key strategies to prevent cyberattacks like the American Water cyber breach.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. But this hasn’t done the trick.

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Why MSPs must offer 24/7 cybersecurity protection and response — and how OpenText MDR can help

Webroot

In todays cyber threat landscape, good enough is no longer good enough. This is why partnering with OpenText for offering managed detection and response (MDR) can help MSPs deliver on this critical need without overburdening their resources. Cyberattacks dont clock out at 5 PM, and neither can your security strategy.

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Top 12 Firewall Best Practices to Optimize Network Security

eSecurity Planet

Firewalls monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic while also preventing unauthorized access. Overlapping rules may impair firewall efficiency or expose flaws that allow attackers to circumvent regulations. Choose a centralized platform that is interoperable with several firewall suppliers.

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What Is Firewall-as-a-Service? FWaaS Ultimate Guide

eSecurity Planet

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis.

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

The Last Watchdog

Cisco’s recent move to acquire SIEM stalwart Splunk for a cool $28 billion aligns with the rising urgency among companies in all sectors to better protect data — even as cyber threats intensify and disruptive advancements in AI add a wild card to this challenge. Related: Will Cisco flub Splunk?

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What is Cyber Threat Hunting? Definition, Techniques & Steps

eSecurity Planet

And that’s why cyber threat hunting adds human and technical elements to cyber defenses to try to find signs that those cyber defenses may have already been breached. This technique enables cyber threat hunters to identify potential threats and facilitate immediate action to fix any security vulnerabilities.