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Security Automation Is More Than Automation
It’s no secret that security operations is under fire. In most enterprises, the only thing standing between a normal day and a financially devastating data breach is the security analyst. Yet, despite decades of investment in cyber security protection, detection, and intelligence tools, the analyst lacks a centralized software platform to operationalize all of this data in time to effectively prevent breaches from occurring. Drowning in a sea of alerts, and with the business on the line, SOC analysts are desperately seeking solutions. Automation is being hailed as the answer. But what does "security automation" really mean?
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Siemplify raises $10M to improve corporate security coordination
Cybersecurity professionals usually divide their attention between several different tools, but according to Siemplify Inc., that doesn't have to mean they should be constatnly switching between tabs and shuffling data around. The New York-based startup is pursuing a centralized approach to breach prevention that has attracted a $10 million investment from 83North, G20 Ventures and several of its existing backers.
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Siemplify Scores $10M to Streamline Cybersecurity Operations
Siemplify, a cyber-threat management and analysis firm with outposts in both Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York City, announced a $10 million round of Series A financing Tuesday, continuing what has been a busy month for cybersecurity investments across the country.
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Why it's so difficult for SOC teams to trust automation
In the complex corporate security environment, automation is increasingly the "go-to" answer for organizations lost in a sea of alerts, logs and data. For many, it's the only way to address their most critical processes and it's what keeps them moving from task to task in a fluid manner. But there is a danger in putting too much faith into automation and orchestration alone.
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SOCs Require More Than a Band-Aid Approach
The “health” of security operations centers (SOC) is declining: it is becoming harder and harder for security teams to successfully prevent and remediate breaches. Everyone in the industry intuitively understands that breaches are unavoidable. The goal is to find and terminate the attacker’s actions as fast as possible, shortening the time from breach to mitigation of the threat.
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CRN Exclusive: Security Startup Siemplify Launches First Partner Program
Security startup Siemplify is diving into the channel, announcing the launch of its first partner program to help solution providers build a better security operations center business. Based in New York City, Siemplify offers an end-to-end platform for security teams in the security operations center (SOC), including threat management and incident response. Its ThreatNexus platform helps security analysts index alerts, events, and provide business context and threat intelligence data in a single pane of glass.
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New products of the week 7.25.16
ThreatNexus
Key features: A new orchestration module for the Siemplify ThreatNexus security operations platform that reduces incident response times from days to minutes, fulfilling the demand for a complete end-to-end SOC solution.
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Siemplfy Helps Set Up Security Playbooks
Startup Siemplify is giving users the ability to build an automated playbook of responses to network intrusions.
The company is announcing general availability of an orchestration feature for ThreatNexus, its security operations platform. Orchestration had been available in beta; today’s announcement makes the feature more official.
