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Blog

Jul 20, 2017 Threat Hunting? Ditch the SIEM

Threat hunting remains an undeveloped competency for far too many organizations. When surveyed, security professionals confess an overall lack of competency to detect and respond to advanced attacks that slip through their defenses. In my experience, many organizations still rely on alerts from a SIEM (among other prevention systems). Most security teams will painstakingly build models for indicators of compromise, receive alerts from their SIEM, and “do the best they can” to eliminate the intrusion. What are the results?

Read more By Josh Mayfield
Jul 13, 2017 If You Are Not Looking at Risk Vulnerability, You Are Only Seeing Part of the Security Picture

How do you know if your security posture is where it needs to be? Most organizations look at standards, be it national standards, industry standards or their own corporate standards. They may also look at their industry’s best practices. But if you aren’t looking at your risk vulnerability, you are likely not looking at the entire spectrum of your network’s security posture.

Read more By Stuart Rosenfield
Jul 12, 2017 FireMon's Four-Step Approach to Firewall Cleanup
The complexity of firewall policies today not only impacts device performance, but it can also leave you blind to gaps in security. Cleaning up redundant, outdated or out-of-compliance rules is critical to optimizing your security infrastructure. Knowing where to start can be difficult without the proper firewall cleanup tools
Read more By Tim Woods








Mar 22, 2016

Should I reserve memory for Immediate Insight VM?

By Josh Mayfield

For performance reasons it is important to reserve RAM memory for Immediate Insight. If you do not reserve memory, resources might be shared with other VMs on the VMware Server, which will affect search performance. The default setting for a VM does not reserve memory, for best performance it is recommended to override this default and reserve the memory.

To reserve memory for your Immediate Insight VM, please following the following steps (example here for VM ESXi, but similar concept applies for VW Workstation etc.)

    • Connect to the ESXi server with vSphere Client

    • From the Inventory, select the Immediate Insight VM form the list

    • make sure the VM is powered off

    • click 'Edit virtual machine settings'

    • click 'Resources'

    • click 'Memory'

    • check box for 'Reserve all guest memory (All locked)'

    • click 'OK'

    • power the VM back up, the proceed as normal

    Josh Mayfield leads platform sales for Immediate Insight, FireMon's security analytics solution.

    Events

    Webinars

    Jun 29, 2017 The Hybrid Cloud Reality: Managing Security in Private, Public & On-Premises Environments
    In a recent study, 90% of IT security practitioners reported that their organization has adopted or plans to adopt a cloud solution. Cloud is now.
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    Jun 22, 2017 La vida del firewall: administración constante y automatizada del ciclo de vida de las políticas

    El nuevo paradigma de la automatización es la “Administración del Ciclo de Vida”

     

    Te mostraremos cómo FireMon Intelligent Policy Automation utiliza la tecnología de automatización e inteligencia para reducir el esfuerzo e incrementar la eficacia en cada etapa del proceso de cambios.
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    Jun 06, 2017 Top 5 Risks of "Dirty" Firewalls
    Firewall rules are notoriously complex and voluminous in nature. Even small organizations have multiple firewalls and significant complexity. But large organizations are overwhelmed.
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    Jun 01, 2017 4 Steps to Prepare for the Next WannaCry
    Now that the immediate threat of WannaCry has died down, it is time to take a step-back and analyze the situation to see what we can learn from this attack to better protect ourselves from the next “unknown”.
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    News

    Jun 07, 2017
    Qakbot malware from 2009 returns, causes Active Directory lockouts
    SC Magazine UK
    Jun 06, 2017
    Botched security: Celebrities, other patients, affected after plastic surgery files are breached and stolen
    SC Magazine
    Jun 06, 2017
    Election cyberattack proves people are still the biggest flaw
    SearchSecurity
    Jun 01, 2017
    250K Photos Leaked in Cosmetic Surgery Extortion Attack
    Info Security
    Jun 01, 2017
    OneLogin Breach Reignites Concerns over Password Managers
    Dark Reading
    Jun 01, 2017
    OneLogin Breach Reignites Concerns over Password Managers
    Dark Reading
    May 29, 2017
    How to manage the Complexity Gap
    IT Pro Portal
    May 26, 2017
    Hackers upgrading malware to 64-bit code to evade detection
    SC Magazine UK
    May 25, 2017
    83 percent of security staff waste time fixing other IT problems
    Betanews
    May 24, 2017
    Unsanctioned Computer Support Costs Companies $88K per Year
    Dark Reading
    May 23, 2017
    WannaCry Successor Is New ‘Doomsday’ SMB Worm That Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools
    Information Security Buzz
    May 23, 2017
    WannaCry? Not really. A report from the 11th Eskenzi PR IT Analyst and CISO Forum
    Computer Weekly
    May 18, 2017
    Cisco Warns Of Un-Patchable WannaCrypt Vulnerabilities
    Information Security Buzz
    May 16, 2017
    Here comes the cloud...and it's all right
    SC Magazine
    May 15, 2017
    10 ways cyber security will evolve in the face of growing threats
    Information Age
    May 12, 2017
    Managing Complexity Is No. 1 Security Challenge in FireMon’s Annual State of the Firewall Report
    Computing Security
    May 12, 2017
    Sabre Breach
    Information Security Buzz
    May 12, 2017
    FireMon Announces Industry’s First Intelligent Cloud Security Management Solution
    IT Security Guru
    May 12, 2017
    FireMon Releases Third Annual State of the Firewall Report
    Dark Reading
    May 12, 2017
    WikiLeaks drops 'Grasshopper' documents, part four of its CIA Vault 7 files
    Wired
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    Security Manager
    Overview of FireMon’s Flagship Firewall Management Solution
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    Policy Planner
    Overview of FireMon’s Change Automation Solution
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    Policy Optimizer
    Overview of FireMon’s Rule Recertification Automation Solution
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    Risk Analyzer
    Overview of FireMon’s Attack Simulation and Risk Measurement Solution
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    Immediate Insight
    Overview of FireMon’s Immediate Insight Solution
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    Intelligent Security Management
    Delivering next-generation security management that boosts productivity and accelerates the agility of business
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    Intelligent Policy Automation
    Intelligent Policy Automation: Orchestrating Change Management with Speed and Security.
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    Hybrid Cloud Management
    Visibility into and control over Cloud Services, including AWS and OpenStack Platforms
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    Accelerated Incident Response
    Immediate Insight in action - Orchestration, automation and analytics for data assembly and discovery
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    Change Simulation & Risk Scoring
    Proactively reduce risk based upon network exposure and host accessibility
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    2017 State of the Firewall
    Networking continues to evolve, yet the firewall remains critical to securing today’s enterprises. FireMon is proud to present its 3rd Annual State of the Firewall Report
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    Firewall Cleanup
    The implications of firewall policy complexity, why it remains a problem today and how to resolve it.
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    Risk Solved: Automated, Real-Time Risk Analysis & Remediation
    Risk analysis with real-time change configuration is key to managing security risks in your IT infrastructure.
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    Real-Time Data Triage
    Our Immediate Insight platform from FireMon can help organizations overcome the limitations and gaps inherent to the current analytic market.
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    Bridging the SIEM Alert Triage Gap
    Immediate Insight enables security teams to improve event triage and incident response, extending the value of your existing full-featured SIEM.
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    Intelligent Policy Automation
    Automation Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All
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    Intelligent Security Management

    Helping Enterprise Security Teams Improve Resource Efficiency & Reduce Overall Risk Exposure

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    2016 State of the Firewall
    2nd Annual State of the Firewall Report based on survey of 600 IT security practitioners.
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    The Top 5 Myths of Data Breaches
    Five of the biggest myths that exist about data breaches, and explain how and why they occur.
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    Firewall Sprawl: Top Four Security Gaps Exposed

    Firewall technology has come a long way since its initial, most rudimentary forms. Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) are the latest development, and organizations are accelerating adoption to the new technology. But NGFWs aren’t a fix-all solution.

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    Overcoming the Complexity Gap
    Bloor
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    When You Can't Patch It, Protect It from the Network
    Gartner
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    Firewall Sprawl: How Complexity Is Adding Cost & Increasing Risk
    Aberdeen
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    Quantifying the Value of Intelligent Security Management
    Aberdeen
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    Security Analytics Brings Data-Driven Security Into the 21st Century
    Forrester
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    Automate Zero Trust Policy And Enforcement
    Forrester
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    The Return on Security Analysis for FireMon’s Security Manager
    IANS
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    Large Healthcare Provider
    The customer sought a data analysis tool to correlate application data with network and security data to spot service-impacting anomalies. They did not have an accurate picture of interoperability between applications and the underlying infrastructure.
    Major Airline
    Following a merger with another airline, this customer was left managing a large number of firewalls and routers from different security vendors using a home-grown application.
    National Insurance Provider
    This national insurance provider had three problems to tackle regarding their firewall policies. First, the number of rules under management was overwhelming staff and processes. They needed to increase visibility and effectiveness of their firewall change request/workflow ticketing process. And they also need help maintaining compliance PCI DSS requirements.
    Managed Service Provider
    Each time this Global MSP engaged a new customer, they had to onboard the firewalls – sometimes hundreds per engagement – into their network. Part of the onboarding process required assessing the policies against internal best practices – a manual, line-by-line process that took an average of 16 hours/firewall and was extremely error-prone.