Three signs your cybersecurity vendor might be gaming the system For those of you who attended the RSA Conference in April, I am sure the bombardment of vendor emails, phone calls, and LinkedIn meeting requests is underway. While I’d bet many of the vendors begging for meetings offer products or services that are not on your radar for 2023–2024, there…

For an MSSP, the key to a CIOs heart is reducing risk for a cost that is less than what they’re spending now, Stellar Cyber asserts. A CIOs or CISOs job is never easy, but it’s more difficult now because cyberattacks are more frequent and more complex than ever before…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been transforming the cybersecurity landscape for over a decade, with machine learning (ML) speeding the…

After four jammed packed days in the Moscone Center in the heart of San Francisco, RSAC 2023 is in the books. By now, most attendees are probably back to their day jobs, keeping us protected from the bad guys. …

There is an innate quality humans have to resist change. Our brains are hardwired to resist change, according to researchers. A part of our brain called the amygdala sees change as a threat and releases hormones for fear, fight, or flight. So when change arises, our brain tries to protect…

Plus, a Bonus Hot Topic Prediction As the cybersecurity world prepares to descend upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco in just over a week, vendors, trainers, conference staff, and attendees are making final preparations for what should be an eventful week for everyone involved. While many attendees are veterans of RSAC, there are undoubtedly a…

As continued economic headwinds persist into 2023, security leaders look toward simplifying their security stack and reducing costs. For example, a recent Gartner survey of more than 400 security leaders found that 75% of organizations are pursuing security vendor consolidation strategies, up from 29% in 2020. Within this same survey…

As the majority of the US gets set to “leap forward” this weekend, moving the clocks one hour ahead in the wee hours of Sunday morning, I thought now would be a good time to reflect on how we have been spending our time over here in Stellar Cyber world…

Reduce business risk with early and accurate identification and remediation of all attack activity while reducing costs, maintaining investments in existing tools, and accelerating analyst productivity. Open XDR: Overall view and alerting of all potential attacks on the IT landscape In order to successfully protect a company from cyber attacks, a large number of different IT security solutions are used today — often from…