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What is a SIEM Engineer?

Posted by ProCircular Team on Oct 15, 2020 10:03:08 AM

In 1974, the great Mohammed Ali said of his opponent, George Foreman, “His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.” The same principle rings true in the cybersecurity world; we can't stop an attack until we know it is happening. That is why SIEM experts, like ProCircular’s Josh Resch, dedicate themselves to monitoring our clients’ networks for suspicious activity. Although each SIEM product works a little differently, they are all designed to help identify and track early signs of malicious activity on your network. A well-maintained SIEM can drastically reduce recovery time from a security incident by showing exactly where the attacker has been.

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Network Security, security incident handling, SIEM, Monitoring

What is an Incident Responder?

Posted by ProCircular Team on Oct 8, 2020 9:37:01 AM

The best approach to security is a proactive one, but nobody is perfect. What happens when a determined attacker finds their way into your network? How do you know where they have been, what they have seen, when they got in, and how they gained access? How do you prioritize remediation and confirm that the bad guys are out of your network? Incident responders, like ProCircular's Aaron Heikkila, are at the ready to swoop down and stop the attackers in their tracks!

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Data Security, Incident Response, security incident handling, security incident response

What is an Ethical Hacker?

Posted by ProCircular Team on Oct 1, 2020 10:52:40 AM

What does cybersecurity look like to you? Do you see a cold, robotic engineer performing a quarterly pen test in your conference room? Are you up at night worried about international rings of cybercriminals? Maybe it’s just a term you saw on the compliance checklist. At ProCircular, it’s about the people, and we are highlighting some of the industry’s brightest this Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

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Topics: Cybersecurity, hacking, Company News

Ask an Engineer: What Is SIEM?

Posted by ProCircular Team on Sep 14, 2020 3:47:59 PM

Security Information & Event Management, or SIEM (pronounced "sim," with a silent "e"), is gaining a reputation outside of the cybersecurity community. Advertisements on YouTube and Hulu tout the product’s incomparable security and real-time effectiveness, but they struggle to convey what a SIEM really does. Technical security lingo tends to make non-technical people tune out, and trying to simplify the concept diminishes its value.

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Data Security, SIEM

Three Cybersecurity Risks You Don’t Really Need to Worry About

Posted by ProCircular Team on Jul 30, 2020 10:24:57 AM

As a non-technical person working in the cybersecurity industry, I often find myself asking, “Do I need to be worried about [insert novel threat]?” I am almost always pleased to learn that the experts have considered these threats and created simple protective measures so that no, I do not necessarily need to be worried about [insert novel threat]. In taking a few simple precautions, you might never need to worry about these intimidating cyber risks ever again!

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Personal Privacy

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