This whitepaper is intended to help firms understand how security automation can accelerate analyst response time to incoming phishing alerts and minimize the impact of these malicious attacks on their environment.

This whitepaper is intended to help firms identify the symptoms of SOC Analyst fatigue, recognize the underlying causes and evaluate recommendations for addressing the problem.

Using an important analogy from Star Wars, this report provides insight into threat intelligence. May the Force Be With You.

The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report examines new vulnerabilities published in 2018, newly developed exploits, new exploit–based malware and attacks, current threat tactics and more. Such analysis helps to provide much needed context to the more than 16,000 vulnerabilities published in the previous year. The insights and recommendations provided are there to help align security strategies to effectively counter the current threat landscape. Incorporating such intelligence in vulnerability management programs will help put vulnerabilities in a risk based context and focus remediation on the small subset of vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack.

From the report, “As the hype and soaring price of cryptocurrency has drawn in thousands of new players worldwide, generating a single bitcoin takes a lot more servers than it used to. It is becoming an arms race amongst miners for access to CPUs, GPUs and even electricity. As a result, we are starting to see a cryptojacking epidemic and hackers aren’t sparing anyone; they are targeting everyone from consumers to large multinational organizations.”

This infographic offers a brief look into the Cloud Security Trends May 2018 report.

The Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study was created in conjunction with Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Benchmark Study, a double-blind survey completed by more than 3600 security professional in 25 countries and across all major industries. The privacy specific questions focused on a subset of nearly 3000 respondents who were familiar with the privacy processes at their organizations. Participants were asked about the makeup of their privacy teams, maturity level of their privacy processes, and the impact (if any) they experienced related to delays in the sales cycle due to customer data privacy concerns. We also analyzed responses to other questions regarding cyber events to understand which organizations had been breached in the last year and the size of any losses from these events.

Some key headlines from this report include; A majority of the public is more concerned about cyber security that it was five years ago, A majority are confident that companies can protect their data and help in the wake of a breach, Most feel business’ focus on profits could negatively impact cybersecurity commitment. Read on for further insight.

This report is based on the results of a comprehensive online survey of 437 cybersecurity professionals conducted from June through August 2018 to gain deep insights into the latest application security threats faced by organizations and the solutions to prevent and remediate them. The respondents range from executives to managers and IT security practitioners. They represent organizations of varying sizes across many industries.

This graphic novel offers a humorous yet informative guide to a security breach by telling a tale that takes place within a craft brewery.

This report posits the following, “When effectively harnessed, AI and ML can form the core of a dynamic predictive IT system, saving money, streamlining operations, and raising productivity as organizations become more adept at avoiding operational, and security issues that could affect their bottom line.”

Scalar’s study of the cyber resilience of Canadian organizations finds there is a new normal across the threat landscape. Cyber security incidents – whether they be exfiltration, infiltration, or denial of service – are now occurring on a regular basis. To address this, the focus of cyber security efforts is shifting from an emphasis on protection against attacks, to improving the detection of malicious actors on the network, and responding to and recovering from incidents as quickly as possible. The findings of the 2019 Scalar Security Study reflect on these new trends and introduce cyber resilience as a security theme that emphasizes the importance of business continuity and the need for organizations to return to normal operations and a trusted state after an incident has occurred

This unique report offers insight into the world of hackers. It seeks to stand apart from other annuals and quarterlies by presenting information other reports are not discussing.

From the report, “Before we begin the 2018 Black Report in earnest, it’s important to understand who our respondents are. Last year, we focused on people who referred to themselves as hackers or professional penetration testers. This year, we broadened our survey to include incident responders. These guys deal first-hand with hackers and the aftermath of data breaches. And as you’ll see, their perspective provided a tremendously valuable contribution to the results of the survey.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Analyzing this flurry of legislative activity in 2018, we have identified a number of continuing trends. In general, the overarching trend is increasing stringency and growing complexity in breach notification obligations. In the following pages, we’ll break down this overarching trend into separate and distinct trends. We’ll also look at what these trends mean for how privacy and security professionals work today.”

From the report, “This quarter’s report covers three main areas of concern for the modern IT defender: • First, credential theft, reuse, and subsequent suspicious logins are—today— the most commonly reported significant incident we’re seeing across both small (<1,000 endpoints) and large organizations (≥1,000 endpoints). • Second, the DDoS landscape just got a lot more interesting with the debut of a new technique using misconfigured—and plentiful—memcached servers. • Finally, we take a look at the increasing levels of SMB and Cisco SMI attacker probes and attacks, where the former continues to define the “new normal” level of background malicious behavior around Windows networking, and the latter begins to bring shape to this relatively new attack vector targeting core router infrastructure.” Read on to find out more.

At Splunk, we’re working on shaping the future. Our experts are embracing new developments, focusing on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), IT operations, security and IoT. Pulling together insights from our thousands of customers and our dedicated research teams, our experts have assembled a shortlist of the top predictions for 2019.

As the end of 2018 approaches and the last year of the decade dawns, the challenges faced by cyber security teams are a blend of “more of the same” and “let’s change the approach”.

At Splunk, our experts don’t read palms, but they do look into the future. The future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), IT operations, security, and IoT. Join us once again as we connect with our renowned experts to capture their predictions for the next big thing in their fields.

This report offers some brief but thorough information on issues related to the hiring, retention and education of cybersecurity talent.

From the report, “Demisto recently sponsored an independent, third-party survey conducted with security professionals around the world working for companies ranging from less than 500 employees to greater than 20,000 employees. More than 200 responses were analyzed. The purpose of the survey was to discover challenges faced by incident response teams and how they are addressing them (or not) currently. This is the first industry study to span and cover all aspects of incident response, including SOC location, training issues, tools utilization, and what metrics are being tracked.” Read on to find out more.