How SIEMs Can Help SOCs Streamline Operations The global Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market is expected to reach USD 5.5 billion by 2025 (Markets and Markets, 2020). So why are companies investing in SIEM? Cyberattacks are pervasive and… Read More »How SIEMs Can Help SOCs Streamline Operations
Why Organizations Need to Deliberately Adopt Threat Intelligence Every organization will, one way or another, land on the radar of cybercriminals or hackers who have an incentive to compromise their systems. Threat intelligence has therefore become a top priority for… Read More »Organizations Need to Deliberately Adopt Threat Intelligence
Interview: A Security Engineer’s Guide to Ransomware Attack Response A conversation with Certified Ethical Hacker Zak Stufflebeam Because ransomware has become such an issue in cybersecurity, EC-Council caught up with Zak Stufflebeam to talk about ransomware attacks, trends, and responses.… Read More »Interview: A Security Engineer’s Guide to Ransomware Attack Response
How to Prepare for the C|PENT Certification: Valuable Guidance From a Cyber Professional If you’re preparing for EC-Council’s Certified Penetration Testing Professional (C|PENT) certification, it’s normal to feel intimidated by the prospect of learning the program’s technical concepts. However, while… Read More »How to Prepare for the C|PENT Certification: Valuable Guidance From a Cyber Professional
CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses for 2022 Announced Out-of-bounds writes, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection topped this year’s list. On June 28, the Common Weakness Enumeration team announced the release of 2022’s Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses… Read More »25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses for 2022 Announced
U.S. Passes New Cybersecurity Legislation in June 2022 The bills, signed into law on June 21, aim to strengthen the federal cyber workforce and foster collaboration across all levels of government. On June 21, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed… Read More »U.S. Passes New Cybersecurity Legislation in June 2022
Cloudflare Reports It Prevented Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack on Record The attack was launched by a 5,000-device botnet and peaked at 26 million requests per second. Last week, content delivery network Cloudflare reported that its systems had detected and prevented… Read More »Cloudflare Reports It Prevented Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack on Record
Reverse Engineering Techniques and Tools for Penetration Testers Penetration testing is a highly in-demand job skill in today’s cybersecurity market. Data breaches cost companies USD 4.2 million in 2021 (IBM, 2021), and penetration testers can help companies protect and secure… Read More »Reverse Engineering Techniques for Penetration Testers
Ethical Hacking: Understanding the Basics Cybercrime continues to grow at an astounding and devastating rate; more than 93% of organizations in the healthcare field alone experienced a data breach in the past few years (Sobers, 2021). While most people with… Read More »Ethical Hacking: Understanding the Basics
What Is Threat Modeling? Data breaches cost companies USD 8.64 million on average (Johnson, 2021), but many companies report they don’t have adequate protection against these vulnerabilities because there aren’t enough IT security professionals to help. The shortage of cybersecurity professionals leaves… Read More »Threat Modeling: 2022’s Most In-Demand Cybersecurity Skill