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How to Start a Cybersecurity Program (or Restart One that Lapsed)

Are you tasked with starting or improving the security processes within your organization? Expel’s CISO, Bruce Potter, provides tips on how to do more with less, or improve a less-than-stellar legacy program.

12 Revealing Questions to Ask When Evaluating an MSSP or MDR Vendor

Evaluating MSSPs? Expel has accumulated a list of questions to ask during the evaluation process. Here are 12 best questions you should consider asking any potential provider to help you determine which provider is the right fit for your organization.

Someone in Your Industry Got Hit with Ransomware. What Now?

Ransomware attacks are on the rise but it doesn't mean it's time to panic. Expel’s SOC team shares tips on what you can do to keep your organization safe and stay resilient against these types of attacks.

Passwords: BioTech and Pharma Both Need a New Path

A year ago, Chris Pierson and BlackCloak studied executives at top global pharma companies to learn the extent of password-based vulnerabilities. The findings weren't reassuring. Pierson revisited the study this year with a select few entities to see if the needle has moved in a more secure direction. In a video...

Build Your Cloud Security Skills to Innovate With Confidence

Today, security is everyone’s business—and it’s the foundation of everything you do in the cloud. AWS Cloud security training helps you build your skills quickly and effectively—with the flexibility to learn on your own terms. Improving your security expertise can give you the confidence to innovate more...

The 10 Essential Capabilities of a Best-of-Breed SOAR

Ask a group of security analysts about the challenges of working in cybersecurity, and you'll likely hear some common themes, like a high volume of security alerts, too many security point-products to manage, and a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent. Many teams have turned to security orchestration,...

Kubernetes Security Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Organizations are using DevOps and Agile practices, coding in containers and microservices, and adopting Kubernetes at a record pace to help manage all these components. Even five years ago, the level of agility, speed, and flexibility the cloud-native stack enables was but a dream. Since Google first introduced...

Why It Is Important to Have Qualified Cybersecurity Professionals On Your Team

Cyberattacks have become a common hazard for individuals and businesses. The World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2020 ranks them as the seventh most likely and eighth most impactful risk, and the second most concerning risk for doing business globally over the next 10 years. The need for strong...

Securing Cloud-Native Kubernetes Applications

With the growth of the microservice architecture, a new space of containerized application orchestration frameworks has evolved, and Kubernetes (an open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services and facilitates automating application deployment, scaling and management) is one of its largest...

Using Identity and Access Governance to Mitigate Data Breach Risks

While nearly three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals would grade their organization's ability to identify and mitigate a cyberattack, as above average or superior, nearly half have been subject to a spear-phishing attack and a third have suffered a malware incident in the last year. Further, over half of...

UltraDDoS Protect Success Stories

Case study: Learn about several companies' experiences using Neustar UltraDDoS Protect DDoS attacks represent a consistent and persistent threat to the digital operations and security of organizations everywhere. The attacks can be used to severely degrade network performance to the point of inoperability. As...

How to Avoid Disruption by Bridging the Resilience Gap

Modern IT teams must maintain compliance with an evolving set of regulatory standards, track and secure sensitive data across endpoints, and manage a dynamic inventory of physical and cloud-based assets, all while fulfilling an increasingly common executive mandate to make technology an enabler for business...

20 Leading Retail Industry CISOs Offer Their Perspective on Evolving Cyberattacks

According to the VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), retail organizations may see a noticeable spike in attempted cyberattacks during the holiday season. This guide is an introduction to the world of cybersecurity-it's history, language and resources-so you can further educate yourself on this rapidly...

2019 Year in Review Cyber Threats & Trends

New Exploits and Increased Relevance of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks The number of DDoS attacks increased 180% in 2019. Are you prepared for 2020? Learn what you need to know from our Security Operations Center (SOC) in order to protect your organization before an attack happens. Download this...

Cyber Confidence: Building a Trustworthy Security Posture

When it comes to the organization's overall security posture, which includes the technology stack but also incorporates elements such as procedures, processes and human behaviors, the confidence of the security professionals we interviewed was far from strong. In fact, 70% expressed some sort of dissatisfaction,...