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Dark Reading's Security Monitoring Tech Center is your portal to all the news, product information, technical data, and best practices related to the monitoring of IT security events and status. Written for executives and businesspeople as well as security and IT professionals, the Security Monitoring Tech Center is a single community dedicated to the tools and techniques used to analyze security activity and detect potential threats to the business.
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Wendy NatherI Think We're All Botnets On This Bus
How many undercover researchers can fit under one cover?
News
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Large Attacks Hide More Subtle Threats In DDoS Data
While distributed denial-of-service attacks topping 100 Gbps garner the headlines, they are not the threat that should worry most companies
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3 Big Mistakes In Incident Response
How not to respond to a cyberattack
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Got Malware? Three Signs Revealed In DNS Traffic
Monitoring your network's requests for domain lookups can reveal network problems and potential malware infections
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Tech Insight: Time To Set Up That Honeypot
A combination of traditional network security monitoring and recent advancements in honeypot and active defense tools is key to detecting today's threats
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Machine Learning Susses Out Social-Network Fraud
Machine-learning techniques can be used to detect fraud and spies on social networks based on certain features, such as the number of followers and devices used to access the network
More Stories
- Google Uses Reputation To Detect Malicious Downloads
- Monitoring The Nomads In Your Network
- Five Ways To Better Hunt The Zebras In Your Network
- More Improvements To SIEM Than Big Data
- Taming Big Bad Data For Better Security
By The Numbers
Companies Less Likely To Monitor Privileged Users
Despite growing reports of breaches and insider attacks, fewer companies monitored their privileged users in 2012 compared to the previous . Cyber-Ark, the company that conducts the surveys, expect the number to start to grow.
SOURCES: Cyber-Ark Snooping Survey 2010 and 2011, and Cyber-Ark Trust, Security and Password Survey 2012
Commentary
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I Think We're All Botnets On This Bus
By Wendy Nather
How many undercover researchers can fit under one cover?
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La Vie En ROSI
By Wendy Nather
Return on security investment may be slightly less mythical than you think
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Dark Reading Reports
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Applications Monitoring For Security Professionals
When it comes to monitoring, the application space is often forgotten. This leaves a gaping hole because the behavior of applications can reveal a great deal about security events and their causes. The inherent variability of applications can make monitoring a challenge, but enterprises can extend existing tools to include the applications space. In this report, we make the case for the development of an applications monitoring strategy and provide recommendations for implementation that tap into existing products and processes.
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Network Monitoring As a Security Tool
The use of network monitoring tools in a security context can help companies fill gaps in protection as well as identify potential problems. Used strategically, network monitoring tools may help enterprises to detect potential security problems that they might otherwise have missed -- while also helping security organizations justify additional investment.
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15 Ways to Get More Value From Security Log and Event Data
Enterprises are swimming in the sea of data generated by networks, servers, personal computing devices and applications, but they are thirsty for actionable data. In this report, we recommend ways in which security professionals can dig through huge storehouses of log data, security event information and other monitoring data to identify and halt compromises or threats. The good news: This Herculean task can be eased-at least somewhat-by leveraging existing systems and insight.
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IT Executive Guide to Security Intelligence
This white paper discusses how security intelligence addresses shortcomings and empowers organizations-from Fortune Five companies to midsize enterprises to government agencies- to maintain comprehensive and cost-effective information security. Read more.
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Intelligent role management for improved security and compliance
In complex organizations with sprawling role structures, managing user access and entitlements can be overwhelming. As part of an effective strategy for identity and access management governance, role management is a powerful method with which to strengthen and streamline the management process. To find out how the integrated Role and Policy Modeler component of IBM Security Identity Manager is designed to address these issues, download the white paper.
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Keeping distributed endpoints safe and secure
In today's far-reaching environments, where the numbers and varieties of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale (POS) devices, ATMs and self-service kiosks-known collectively as "endpoints"-are growing at unprecedented rates, traditional protection schemes such as firewalls and anti-virus agents are no longer sufficient on their own.
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Five steps to achieve success in your application security program
This white paper provides a general framework your organization can use to create or build upon an application security program. It includes guidelines that can be useful at different stages of your security program's maturity. By addressing key considerations, providing clear and actionable items, and offering real-world examples, these five steps provide an adaptable strategy to help your organization get started and maintain an effective, ongoing application-security strategy.
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Secure Web Applications, Creating a Security Culture
Companies move applications to the Web to improve customer interactions, lower business processing costs and speed outcomes. But driving applications to the Web also increases vulnerabilities - unless security is an integral component of the application development process.
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- The Future Of Web Authentication: Password technology is out of steam. We need safer ways to prove who's who online.
- Rethink ID Management: If the technology continues to improve, it might soon be OK for all of us to be one person on the Web.