Blog Posts
Benefits and Challenges of SOAR Platforms
Cyber threats are on the rise, but so are "false positives"--and overwhelmed analysts may be ignoring security alerts. Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platforms and tools can offer a …
• By Angela Horneman, Justin Ray
Is Your Organization Using Cybersecurity Analysis Effectively?
Cybersecurity analysis techniques and practices are key components of maintaining situational awareness (SA) for cybersecurity. In this blog post in our series on cyber SA in the enterprise, I define …
• By Angela Horneman
In Situational Awareness
AI Engineering: 11 Foundational Practices for Decision Makers
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving advances throughout modern society, including in the fields of medicine, transportation, education, and finance....
• By Ipek Ozkaya, Angela Horneman, Andrew Mellinger
In Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity: Three Key Principles of Effective Policies and Controls
Security measures are most effective when it is clear how assets are supposed to be used and by whom....
• By Angela Horneman
In Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity: Assets and Risk
When key business assets are not adequately protected from cybersecurity breaches, organizations can experience dire consequences....
• By Angela Horneman, Lauren Cooper
In Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity: An Introduction
Situational awareness (SA) helps decision makers throughout an organization have the information and understanding available to make good decisions in the course of their work....
• By Angela Horneman
In Situational Awareness
Best Practices in Network Traffic Analysis: Three Perspectives
In July of this year, a major overseas shipping company had its U.S. operations disrupted by a ransomware attack, one of the latest attacks to disrupt the daily operation of …
• By Angela Horneman, Tim Shimeall, Timur Snoke
In Situational Awareness
How to Think Like an Analyst
When I was pursuing my master's degree in information security, two of the required classes were in cognitive psychology and human factors: one class about how we think and learn …
• By Angela Horneman
Ransomware: Best Practices for Prevention and Response
On May 12, 2017, in the course of a day, the WannaCry ransomware attack infected nearly a quarter million computers. WannaCry is the latest in....
• By Alexander Volynkin, Jose Morales, Angela Horneman
In Situational Awareness
The Dyn Attack: Who Participated? Who Was Impacted?
The Dyn attack on October 21, 2016 has been a big topic of conversation in cybersecurity circles. I was off work that day and didn't learn about the attacks until …