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Scrum Frameworks That Keep Security Projects on Track

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If you’re not keeping up with the latest threats, your overall security posture is at risk. Cybersecurity is a central concern for any organization’s operational strategy. Managing security initiatives is inherently complex, owing to the sheer scale and scope of even minor networks. Further, threat landscapes are constantly changing, along with shifting compliance […]

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Cutting the Fat: Using Lean Six Sigma to Streamline Security Operations Centers

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Security operations centers (SOC) are under a great deal of pressure. Threats continue to evolve and change, with attacks growing more sophisticated, and bad actors getting more refined in their deployment of such attacks. Despite the prevalence of cutting-edge tools and skilled, trained analysts, many security operations centers will struggle with dealing with […]

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Reducing False Positives: Lean Six Sigma in Threat Detection

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In the rapidly evolving world of cybersecurity, threat detection has become a vital need and a persistent challenge. Companies face a deluge of unrelenting alerts with intrusion detection systems and endpoint monitoring solutions, creating an environment that makes it difficult to distinguish real threats from false positives. False positives act as a drain […]

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Using Hoshin Kanri to Bridge the Gap Between IT Security and Business Goals

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In today’s enterprise environment, IT security isn’t a technical function. Instead, it is a critical business enabler. That said, some organizations struggle with aligning cybersecurity initiatives with long-term goals. Misallocated resources, fragmented teams, and missed opportunities are just a handful of the symptoms that result from this misalignment. Hoshin Kanri, a structured planning […]

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Six Sigma Meets DevSecOps: Reducing Defects in Code Before Deployment

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DevSecOps is built around the principles of speed, automation, and iteration, resulting in a flexible security environment. You can take the standard operations done under DevSecOps and create a far more powerful and versatile hybridized approach by implementing tools, principles, and concepts from Six Sigma. While the industry is still focused on shifting […]

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Aligning Cybersecurity Initiatives with Corporate Strategy

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It’s an unfortunate reality that most businesses must contend with: cybersecurity threats and online attacks are very real. This very reality has shown to be a real risk, as there have been countless hacks of businesses, large and small, that show the very real gaps in cybersecurity that can jeopardize the livelihood of […]

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From Patch Lag to Rapid Deployment with Agile Security Practices

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Agile and cybersecurity go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Traditionally, cybersecurity practices are largely reactive, siloed off from the rest of the company. Now, as we’ve seen with recent data breaches and incidents over the last decade, this isn’t the best way of handling things. In reality, the ideal of a cybersecurity […]

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Incremental Changes That Strengthen Incident Response

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Ably handling incident response is what separates great security teams from mediocre ones. We live in a fast-paced world, and digital threats are arising every day. If you stay stagnant, you risk the whole of your organization’s infrastructure. The best security teams are making use of cycles of continuous improvement to prepare for […]

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Turning Executive Vision into Actionable Cybersecurity Measures

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How do you turn upper management’s goals into concrete cybersecurity measures? For all the talk and pageantry, when it comes time to put rubber to the road, you need a plan. While you can certainly align your security team’s planning with your organization’s overall strategic goals, it isn’t quite as straightforward as you […]

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