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How We’re Using AI to Usher in the Era of the “Smarter SOC”
In 2020, months seem to feel like years. Amid rapid change, adaptation is essential. Cyber threats are no exception to this rule. Technology can solve complex problems but can also be destabilizing. We think about this paradox regularly as artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning gain prevalence in our field. ...
Time to Get Proactive About Threat Hunting
When I think about the many challenges that threat hunters face nowadays, trust me when I say that I feel their pain. Early in my career, I was a Security Engineer in a SOC who scrambled into action upon receiving the proverbial midnight call about an incident. The system I was part of wasn’t ...
SOC vs MITRE APT29 evaluation – Racing with Cozy Bear
MITRE just released the results of the APT 29 evaluation of 21 commercial cybersecurity products today, including McAfee MVISION EDR. This evaluation, conducted in the form of a collaborative attack and defense exercise, is based on ATT&CK®, a freely available and open source knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques ...
Join the Cyber Security Dance
Automation and orchestration are central to the proverbial cyber security dance between IT operations and security operations center (SOC). Both functions need to work with each other and establish a rhythm and alignment to keep their organization protected from cyber threats. The lure to automate is driven by the desire ...
The Ever-Evolving SOC
In the 17th century, poet John Donne wrote, “no man is an island entire of itself.” He also mentioned every man is “a part of the main.” Fast forward to the 21st century and you’ll find this concept still rings true, especially as it relates to security. Like everything else ...
MITRE ATT&CK Framework to Help You Get the Play-by-Play on Adversaries
In the cybersecurity space, there’s a lot of talk about the “attacker advantage.” As a defender, you’re all too familiar with the concept. Every day, you and your team try to gain ground over adversaries who seem to get the jump on your defenses by exploiting the latest points of ...
McAfee Leads the Charge to Embrace and Expand the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
In October, I was privileged to attend the two-day MITRE ATT&CK™ conference, where participants and attendees voiced their support for the ATT&CK framework. The event, sponsored by McAfee, served as a forum for sharing insights and best practices for using ATT&CK as a way to describe and demystify the complexities ...
Gartner Peer Insights Recognition for McAfee SIEM
This blog was written by Peter Elliman. I’m proud to say that McAfee has received recognition from our customers with the 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). This is a recognition of high satisfaction from a number of reviews by verified end-user ...
How to Boost Security Operations Performance with Human-Machine Teaming Technology
In the lead up to the Security Operations Roadshow in Canada in May, there’s been lots of discussion on the challenges faced by security teams. Security operations teams today struggle with an ever-increasing number of alerts, new zero-day attacks and a lack of skilled resources. Fifty-eight percent of organizations cite employee ...
How McAfee uses Customer Zero to get to decisions faster
The third in a series of three blogs by Grant and Jason Rolleston on the process of identifying actionable insights. In this series, we’ve been examining how data is collected, processed and analyzed. And, because of the complexity of the task at that analysis stage, we’ve been looking at the ...
