Michael talks to Tony Krzyzewski, Director of SAM for Compliance and Global Cyber Alliance Ambassador
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
In this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files, I talk with Tony Krzyzewski, Director of SAM for Compliance, Global Cyber Alliance Ambassador, and New Zealand’s Convenor on the International Standards Organization SC27 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Standards Committee.
With more than four decades working in IT and Networking, and almost three decades in cybersecurity, there are few more experienced practitioners than Tony. In this episode, Tony draws on his extensive experience to give some practical, pragmatic advice about where organizations need to focus to improve their cyber defenses. He highlights the importance of focusing on operational management processes for any cyber security program and reinforces the mantra I have been hearing from many CISOs about how the importance of regularly practising and performing “Security FireDrills”.
Tony talks about his long-time campaign to encourage organizations to adopt DMARC, “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance” policies to improve protections against fraudulent email and phishing attacks.
Finally, Tony gives his perspective on the massive surge in SOAR and XDR solutions in the market and how that is impacting organizations’ security postures, and puts on his predictions hat as he talks about what to look out for in the year ahead.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Tim Dales, VP Labs and Analyst, IT Brand Pulse
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
What is the “Total Cost of Ownership” for security teams to get absolute forensics with full packet capture?
In this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files, I talk with Tim Dales, VP of Labs and Analyst for IT Brand Pulse. Tim shares the results of an IT Brand Pulse study that examines the cost of in-house developed packet capture solutions versus off-the-shelf, vendor-built solutions.
Tim shares details of the report’s findings including the pros and cons and some of the key things many people don’t consider before trying to build solutions in-house.
Finally, Tim discusses key changes in how organizations are thinking about their security architectures and the gaps they are looking to address. He shares the importance of integrated workflows in helping analysts to accelerate investigation times and confirm or dispense potential indicators of compromise more definitively.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Tim Wade, Director, Office of the CTO, Vectra AI
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Security Operations teams at many organizations are reviewing processes and tools as breaches continue to happen, investigation times remain too long, outcomes are uncertain, and too many alerts are going unaddressed. Organizations are asking, “why are we spending so much money on security without tangible results?” They are looking at “SOC Modernization” initiatives to help them defend effectively against increasingly sophisticated threat actors.
In this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files I talk with Tim Wade, Technical Director from the Office of the CTO at Vectra.AI, who shares his insights into the “SOC Modernization” trend and three pillars that he suggests require a change in thinking to ultimately be successful.
Tim starts with a fundamental change in philosophy – he suggests SOC teams need to shift from a “prevention” to a “resiliency” approach to cyberdefense. He illustrates the importance of taking incremental and iterative steps with monthly and even weekly measurement and review cycles to evaluate progress.
Tim suggests SOC teams need to better understand the rules of the game so they can step back and actively work to break them – because that is exactly what our treat actor adversaries are doing every day. Challenge everything and think like your opponent.
Finally, Tim advises CISOs that modernization needs to address challenges holistically. Not just focusing on technologies, but also ensuring they are working on people and processes and gaps in training, communication, and thinking.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Phillip Solakov, Client Solutions Director at Optiv
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Cyber security teams around the globe are embarking on a variety of “modernization” initiatives, as they try to keep up with the dynamic threat landscape, but what are the must-have elements if you are looking to modernize your SOC?
You won’t want to miss this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files as I talk with Phillip Solakov, Client Solutions Director for Optiv Canada, as he shares his view of what “SOC Modernization” means and what’s driving these efforts.
Phillip explains some of the biggest issues SOC teams are facing and things they are working on to overcome these challenges. He drills into how alert fatigue is compounded with more detection tools, more telemetry and why it is becoming critical for more automation in SOC processes and tools.
Finally, Phillip highlights some things SOC teams are still missing with the continuously expanding attack surface, and he gives some examples of how these gaps can still be addressed with the right security architecture and mindset.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Pavel Minarik, CTO of Kemp Technologies
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Many organizations are undertaking SOC and NOC modernizations, but what does this mean and what is driving it?
If your company is planning a “modernization” you won’t want to miss this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files as Pavel Minarik, CTO of Kemp Technologies, talks about what’s important and what is fueling the need to modernize.
Pavel gives his insights into some of the biggest challenges NOCs and SOCs are facing and shares some tips to help these separate teams work together and collaborate more. He underscores why this is becoming more important with increasing network complexity, virtualization, and escalating threat attack vectors.
Finally, Pavel talks about why network traffic is such a foundational data source for both NoCs and SoCs and the pros and cons of flow-based monitoring vs full packet monitoring. He shares the best practices analysts are adopting to become improve investigation efficiency and reduce incident response times.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to David Ellis, VP Sales and Corporate Relations, SecureIQLab
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
How does an organization quantify its cybersecurity readiness and robustness? What does a strong cybersecurity posture look like? These are questions many CISO and SecOps analysts are trying to figure out so they can sleep at night knowing they are doing all they can to protect their organization’s cyber assets.
In this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files, I talk with David Ellis, VP of Sales and Corporate Relations for SecureIQLab, who shares his insights into what the SecureIQLab team sees in their role as both a test lab and a security assessment consultancy.
David outlines the elements of a successful security team and what metrics SecOps should be monitoring to quantify their security posture. He shares common vulnerabilities that he sees many organizations are still facing and the table-stakes that every security team should have in terms of tools, processes, and policies.
Finally, David talks about what frameworks and standards teams should be adopting and what the process for your organization might look like if you want to get into a security audit and assessment.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Ajit Thyagarajan, Principal Security Architect for Cisco
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing with new Zero-Day Threats, double-extortion ransomware attacks and continuously evolving phishing techniques. The volume of threats and the pace of change are impacting the way SecOps teams operate and pushing them to find new ways to connect disparate data sources in order to automate processes and improve incident response times.
You won’t want to miss this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files as I talk with Ajit Thyagarajan, Principal Security Architect for Cisco, who talks about the challenges security analysts are facing and shares his views and ideas on how to improve their day-to-day operation.
Ajit shares the concept of the Intelligent Telemetry Plane that he and his team at Cisco have been developing. He highlights the value of the provenance of telemetry data and how important bringing different data sources together is to staying ahead of threat actors.
Finally, Ajit shares some ideas about the types of challenges a common telemetry management platform can help solve and what to keep your eyes on over the year ahead when it comes to security threats and cyber defense.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Steve Tsirtsonis, Director EMEA Federal Business for Endace
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Nation-state cybersecurity is fast becoming the new battle frontline in international conflict. It is complicated by rogue threat actor groups inserting their cyber weapons into the mix, extorting money for funding, fanning the flames of nation-state disputes, and crippling potential targets.
You won’t want to miss this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files as I talk with Steve Tsirtsonis, Director EMEA Federal Business for Endace, who shares his view of the threat landscape that government agencies around the world are facing and how it is evolving.
Steve talks about what he sees governments doing to combat escalating cyber threats, what are some of the unique challenges they face and how they are evolving their security using SOAR, AI and NDR tools to be as prepared as possible to defend critical infrastructure.
Finally, Steve gives his thoughts on the key things security teams should look out for in the years ahead and what we can all learn from government security practices.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
Michael talks to Michael Wallmannsberger, Security Consultant and former CISO of Air New Zealand
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Has the fluidity of your network perimeter created holes in your cybersecurity defenses?
Tune in for this episode of the Endace Packet Forensic files as I get insights from expert cybersecurity consultant, and former CISO of Air New Zealand, Michael Wallmannsberger.
Michael shares some of the systemic and foundational mistakes that he sees organizations are continuing to make that hamper their security posture. He gives some great advice for new CISOs as to what to prioritize and to focus on as they build their security maturity.
Finally, Michael shares, from a CISO’S perspective, some key elements to start with to help you walk before you run in your push for stronger cybersecurity. And highlights the importance of taking the time to develop your organization’s security competencies across the whole business.
Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.
By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace
Security teams are overloaded – they have too many alerts, and tools that aren’t integrated. There’s simply not enough of the right information in the hands of security analysts to enable them to investigate issues quickly and confidently.
Organizations need integrated security tools that raise their odds of detecting threats and give them the confidence that they really know what is happening – or has happened – anywhere on their networks.
Today that battle is changing. The game is being tilted in the favor of SecOps teams as analysts can now leverage the power of two powerful and tightly integrated security platforms – Corelight NDR and the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform – to detect and hunt for threats in their networks.
Corelight’s enterprise-ready Zeek and Suricata engines allow SecOps teams to fully analyze network traffic data for threats, protocol insights and application anomalies. Corelight Sensors harness the simplicity of Zeek with enterprise-level performance, scale and administrative capability to give SOCs gain rapid visibility into what’s happening on their network.
Corelight’s out of the box integration of Zeek and Suricata provides a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-deploy security platform that delivers simple and scalable network detection and the detailed insights critical to any security team.
The EndaceProbe “always-on” network recording and packet capture platform gives customers 100% visibility into every packet anywhere on the network, enabling powerful real-time and back-in-time forensic investigation and event reconstruction.
The EndaceProbe platform scales to record traffic at full line-rate across your whole environment. Delivering high-speed centralized search and easy drill-down workflows from your SIEMS or other security tools directly to the recorded network traffic relevant to a specific alert or investigation. Additionally, Endace’s open platform architecture lets you host solutions such as Corelight Sensors as virtualized instances directly on the EndaceProbe appliance to analyze the traffic in real-time as it is recorded. This hosting capability allows you to consolidate key security tools onto a common hardware platform, reducing costs and enabling agile deployment of tools to wherever you need them across your network without additional hardware rollout and configuration.
The power of combining EndaceProbes with Corelight sensors helps customers to solve difficult security challenges like supply-chain attacks or advanced persistent threats, that are often difficult to detect and enable attackers to hide for long periods in the network by camouflaging their activity using sophisticated stealth techniques such as modifying or deleting logs or other evidence.
Having powerful detection and traffic analysis integrated with a tamper-resistant record of network activity in the form of recorded packet history streamlines forensic investigations and threat hunting efforts, making security teams more efficient and effective. Real-world problems such as identifying command and control traffic, spoofed DNS, or lateral movement inside your network can be solved in minutes.
Large technology firms, banks, and government agencies around the globe are enthusiastically embracing the power of Corelight and Endace to help them better secure their environments. To learn more about how together Endace and Corelight can help you better secure your environment check out the short demo video below and Corelight’s partner page on endace.com.
