Taking the right steps to secure your Active Directory (AD) has never been more important. Because AD controls who can get into your network and what they can do once they’re inside, failure to implement proper controls will dramatically increase your risk of costly breaches and extended downtime.

This is the eighth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about network logging. Today, we learn about syslog-ng macros and templates. At the end of the session, we will know how to do a simple log rotation using macros.

We’d like to provide an update on our investigation into the suspicious activity detected in our Fortra GoAnywhere MFT solution. Working with Unit 42, we have completed our investigation and have compiled a factual summary of the investigation, as well as continuous improvement actions Fortra is taking to further strengthen our systems and recommended actions customers can take to secure their data and improve their security posture using available features in the GoAnywhere MFT solution.

This is the seventh part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about syslog-ng destinations and the log path. Today, we learn about syslog-ng network logging. At the end of the session, we will send test messages to a syslog-ng network source.

If you haven’t read Part 1 of our Security Awareness Training ROI, you can here. In it, we discussed the high-level overview of why security awareness training should be a vital part of any company’s cybersecurity strategy and how to get the best security awareness training ROI.

Free software, also known as open-source software, sounds like a good way to cut already high IT costs. As the name suggests, it’s free, thus it shouldn’t cost anything. But is it really that simple? Let’s find out.

As an IT professional, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that there are 95 million attempted Active Directory (AD) attacks every day. But cyberattack concerns aren’t limited to on-premises Active Directory. In fact, last year, there were more than 25 billion attacks in Azure AD.

Splunk is a popular search and analysis platform. Many users of Splunk also have syslog-ng™ deployed in their environments. This guideline describes scenarios in which Splunk users can benefit from syslog-ng™ Premium Edition features and offers some technical guidance to optimize the syslog-ng™ configuration.

Today, data breaches and cyber-attacks are becoming so frequent that they aren’t a matter of “if” but “when,” making cybersecurity employee training a must.

Nowadays, advances in quantum computing are moving at a neck-breaking pace. Giants in the field have been faithfully executing roadmaps and delivering on milestones laid out several years ago. And while it is hard to predict when the advances will reach their breaking point, the threat to classical, public key cryptography is getting closer.  

Attack paths are at the forefront of cybersecurity discussions today. But exactly what is an attack path? Why is Active Directory (AD) particularly vulnerable? And what can you do to protect your organization? This blog post covers all these questions and more.