We ran a contest in Spiceworks recently, asking folks for their best cloud tech jokes. Here are some of the funniest ones:Those SpiceHeads sure have great senses of humor, of a highly techie variety! …
In honor of NCSAM, we decided to ask the Twitter community for security travel tips, to help us be more safe when travelling. Here's the original Tweet:Want some AlienVault swag? Send us your top tip for #security while traveling by October 8 for potential inclusion in an upcoming blog. Of the tips we include in the blog, we&rsquo…
At Black Hat 2018, we surveyed attendees on diverse topics ranging from how to react to extortion, what impact the geopolitical landscape is having on the industry, and whether the shiny veneer of the cloud is beginning to fade. Our Security Advocate, Javvad Malik, has put together an excellent report on the survey. The report is based on our…
Carrying on with National Security Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NSCAM), we continue our celebratory blog series. This one is on the dangers the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and other removable media. USBs are called all kinds of things, from thumb drives to memory sticks to USB flash drives.USB’s sure are convenient. They’re tiny and you can…
Well Javvad Malik has created another awesome report taking on what taking security seriously actually looks like - both for customers and providers. Here's a little excerpt:The “we take security seriously” line is the security equivalent of the infamous call center “your call is important to us” line. Everybody says…
Javvad Malik and the rest of the AlienVault team surveyed 928 participants at Infosecurity Europe 2018 on this topic. Read the full report from Javvad here!Key FindingsLooking forward, cloud security threats are the most concerning external threatInternally, phishing (55%) and ransomware (45%) lead the pack of worries for security departments92 percent would rather pay a subscription fee, allow ads, or…
We recently ran a contest on Twitter to collect the best InfoSec memes from the community. First I polled folks from my personal account to gauge interest, and wow was there interest! You know me and I definitely had to do a compedium blog on these funny as well as educational security memes. Since this blog on IT jokes from 2015…
Privacy has always had a degree of overlap with security, however, recent years has increased the dependency each has on the other. Be that with regards to protecting individual information, the use of social media, or the requirements to respond to breaches.RSA 2018 gave us an excellent opportunity to gather the opinions of InfoSec professionals. We were able to get…
RSA 2018 was the best RSA ever from an AlienVault perspective! It was a "giant leap" for sure.The booth was Out of This World:We had hundreds of folks pop by for a demo or theater presentation.The Big News! OTX Endpoint Security™ Free Service!The statistics on OTX participation are amazing - as of this writing 86018…
If you Google “SIEM Content Engineer,” “SIEM Threat Content Engineer,” or “SIEM Content Developer,” you will see a bunch of ads, job listings and very little other content. I believe this is because the concept is new, and it appears SIEM Content Engineer is emerging as a new job title that HR departments in…
It was a great year in blogs for AlienVault! Here are the top blogs from 2017, selected by number of views from all sources. Drumroll please.Explain Bitcoin to Me by Tristan Johns. It’s an approachable but technical explanation of how Bitcoin works. MacSpy: OS X RAT as a Service by Peter Ewane. It’s about one…
I ran a poll before the holidays, to understand the InfoSec community's thoughts and attitudes on Red Teaming versus Blue Teaming a bit better. As you likely know, Red Teamers are those who non-maliciously "attack" a company, and Blue Teamers are the defenders. We've had some interesting blogs on this topic, and for a very positive…
