The landscape of cyber security is always changing. Attackers are constantly probing for new weaknesses and vulnerabilities to exploit in corporate networks, while organisations are being forced to take new, more open approaches to IT systems

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recently revealed some serious and potentially very damaging statistics about data security in the wake of the NSA’s PRISM scandal. A survey of its members highlighted the full extent of cloud security concerns

Security information and event management (SIEM) should form the foundation of any organisation’s security strategy. With the ever-increasing threat of attacks and the inevitability of more sophisticated threats on the horizon, businesses need to be prepared.

Ploughing through log reports isn’t for the faint-hearted. It perhaps doesn’t improve the situation to know that the security information the report contains is already redundant.

Does Mystic Meg do threat predictions? No. And nor would we want her to. Russell Grant, Psychic Sally and Jonathan Cainer can’t help either. Predicting the attack vectors of malware threats is impossible – sure we can identify trends and known sources to limit exposure, but ...

Are you still reading? Whilst it might not be the most stimulating of security tasks, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a must have. SIEM feeds on logs and in the fight against ever increasing malware threats, we think it’s time we learned to love our logs.