What Are They? Threat intelligence is an emerging commercial search that provides a security operations team with the ability to ingest threat feeds from multiple sources. What Do They Do? Once “ingested” these solutions can then correlate different threat intelligence sources against each other. This “matching process” was provide a security team with greater assurance… Read More
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Overcoming “Separation Anxiety” in Moving to an Outsourced IT Model – Part 4
I’ve worked many years in outsourcing and have been brought in to fix a whole lot of different situations. One of the most common problems I’ve noticed over years is the idea of what I like to call the IT version of “separation anxiety” – a situation in which business owners simply cannot give up… Read More
Security Operations: The Right Way to Manage Your SOC Part 1 (Reality check on what it takes to have a SOC)
To do this, let’s just step back briefly and look at what it takes to run an IT security operations team. The first thing you need is a security infrastructure. A set of tools and integrated solutions that allow you to monitor, hopefully automatically detect and block bad things. You need to buy the hardware,… Read More
The Right Way to Manage Your MSSP Part 2 (Why Does It Go Wrong)
So the question out there is, why are there so many unhappy outsourcing customer relationships. I’m not saying that’s every single one is a failure, or there is unhappiness. I know of many customers – outsourcing relationships that are very successful. There are good communications and openness between two organizations. But, if you’re in that… Read More
The Right Way to Manage an MSSP (Part 1)
Throughout the years of my work in the IT industry, and having the opportunity to work with many customers who have either decided they wanted to embark upon moving to an MSSPs, or that have started the journey. In many situations, it is not always the happiest of working relationships. The customer feels that the… Read More