Tal Moriah

March 31, 2026

An incident response plan template is a pre-structured document that gives organizations a standardized framework for how to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from cybersecurity incidents.

Chris Champa

March 30, 2026

Open-source software (OSS) incident response (IR) tools are publicly available tools enterprises use to effectively manage and respond to numerous security threats.

Shaked Rotlevi

March 30, 2026

A zero-day vulnerability is a software flaw that the vendor does not yet know about or has not yet patched, giving defenders zero days to prepare before attackers can exploit it.

Chris Champa

March 27, 2026

Cloud security logs are formatted text records that capture events and activities as they occur in a cloud environment, providing insight into what’s happening within that environment in real time.

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Chris Champa

March 23, 2026

In this post, we’ll look at some of the differences between MDR and traditional managed services, how MDR functions within organizations, some of the tools it works with for even more effective threat detection and response, and the most important tip for getting the most out of your MDR solution.

Greg Zemlin

March 20, 2026

Learn the foundations of cloud detection and response (CDR), how to implement it, and the right platform to manage your cloud security plan.

Chris Champa

March 20, 2026

An incident response plan is a documented, structured approach that outlines how an organization detects, contains, eradicates, and recovers from cybersecurity incidents.

Tal Moriah

March 19, 2026

Cloud threat hunting is the proactive search for malicious activity across cloud infrastructure, workloads, and identities before automated tools detect it.

Tal Moriah

March 16, 2026

Attack path analysis (APA) is a cybersecurity technique that identifies and maps how potential attackers could infiltrate your network and systems

An incident response team is a specialized security unit within an organization whose primary duties involve responding to cyber incidents and addressing compromised systems, applications, and data.

Tal Moriah

March 15, 2026

Threat detection and response (TDR) is a cybersecurity discipline that combines continuous monitoring, threat identification, investigation, and containment to find and stop attacks before they cause damage.

Chris Champa

March 14, 2026

Detection engineering is the practice of systematically designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining threat detection logic to identify malicious activity or unauthorized behavior across an organization's environment.

Tal Moriah

March 12, 2026

Learn how SOC automation reduces manual workloads, improves threat detection, and accelerates response with AI-driven tools and real-time security workflows.

A reverse shell attack is a type of cyberattack where a threat actor establishes a connection from a target machine (the victim's) to their machine.

A rootkit is a malicious software that hides its presence and grants unauthorized access to a system to steal data, monitor activity, or manipulate functions.

An incident response checklist is a step-by-step guide that tells your security team exactly what to do when a cyberattack happens.

Tal Moriah

February 26, 2026

Learn the 6 essential incident response steps to detect, contain, and recover from threats. Compare NIST vs. SANS and optimize your IR process for the cloud.

Incident response services are specialized teams and tools that help you detect, contain, and recover from cyberattacks.

Chris Champa

February 25, 2026

Incident response automation uses AI and machine learning to detect, triage, and remediate security incidents faster than manual processes allow.

Shaked Rotlevi

February 24, 2026

Data detection and response (DDR) is a cybersecurity solution that uses real-time data monitoring, analysis, and automated response to protect sensitive data from sophisticated attacks that traditional security measures might miss, such as insider threats, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and supply chain attacks.

NIST incident response is a structured framework for detecting, containing, and recovering from cyber threats. Learn how SP 800-61 Rev. 3 provides a repeatable process for security teams.

Cloud security operations center (SOC) tools are the security solutions used by SOC teams to track and triage threats and vulnerabilities in cloud environments.

SecOps is the collaborative integration of IT security and operations teams to protect and manage an organization's digital assets more efficiently.

Tal Moriah

February 19, 2026

Learn use cases, tactics, and the foundations of the MITRE ATTACK (also known as MITRE ATT&CK) framework and how to leverage it for improved cloud security.

An incident response report is a formal document that captures the complete story of a security incident, including the who, what, when, where, why, and how of what occurred.

Chris Champa

February 16, 2026

Learn more about incident response playbooks to find gaps in your process. Plus, get free playbooks for your cloud security teams, best practices, and more.

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack usually originates from one system or one upstream source, while a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack coordinates many systems (a botnet) to generate traffic volumes that single-source attacks cannot achieve.

Threat modeling is a structured, proactive approach to identifying potential security threats in a system by analyzing it from an attacker's perspective before vulnerabilities can be exploited.

Lateral movement is the set of techniques attackers use to navigate through a network after gaining initial access. Once inside, they pivot from system to system searching for valuable data, privileged accounts, and critical assets.

DDoS attacks are cyberattacks that flood a target system with traffic from multiple sources, overwhelming its capacity to serve legitimate users.

Greg Zemlin

February 3, 2026

Understand what digital forensics and incident response is. Plus, learn about the process and types of DFIR tools for speeding up cyberattack response time.

Types of DDoS attacks include volumetric floods, protocol connection exhaustion, and application-layer request overloads that disrupt legitimate services.

Tal Moriah

January 30, 2026

Learn how threat detection tools work in cloud environments, what capabilities matter most, and how modern platforms use context and automation to improve response.

Tal Moriah

January 28, 2026

ITDR is a security discipline that detects and responds to attacks that target or abuse user and machine identities, stopping credential misuse in real time.

Greg Zemlin

January 28, 2026

Cloud investigation and response automation (CIRA) harnesses the power of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to provide organizations with real-time insights into potential security incidents within their cloud environments

Incident response is a strategic, coordinated process. It is how teams detect, analyze, contain, and recover from security incidents by combining preparation, detection, response protocols, and continuous improvement.

A honeypot is an intentionally vulnerable system that appears legitimate to attract malicious actors. By tricking attackers into interacting with a fake target, security teams can capture valuable intelligence about attacker tools, methods, and motivations in a controlled environment.

Tal Moriah

January 13, 2026

Build a strong incident response policy to manage cybersecurity crises with clear roles, compliance steps, and hands-on training.

DDoS prevention in cloud environments requires validating that traffic actually routes through protection layers, since direct origin exposure is one of the most common bypass techniques attackers use to circumvent your defenses entirely

The main difference is that SIEM focuses on detection and visibility, while SOAR focuses on response and automation. SIEM collects and analyzes vast amounts of log data, whereas SOAR acts on processed alerts and findings.

Chris Champa

December 31, 2025

A security operations center (SOC) is a centralized function that combines people, processes, and technology to continuously monitor an organization's IT environment for security threats.

A man-in-the-middle attack is a cyberattack where an attacker secretly intercepts and potentially alters communications between two parties who believe they are communicating directly with each other.

SOC analysts translate cloud telemetry into actionable decisions by interpreting identity activity, workload behavior, and infrastructure changes in context.

A denial of service (DoS) attack makes an application, service, or network resource unavailable to legitimate users by overwhelming systems with traffic, requests, or state transitions.

Chris Champa

December 24, 2025

Cloud incident response is a strategic approach to detecting and recovering from cyberattacks on cloud-based systems with the goal of minimizing the impact to your workloads and business operation accordingly.

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An incident response framework is a blueprint that helps organizations deal with security incidents in a structured and efficient way. It outlines the steps to take before, during, and after an incident, and assigns roles and responsibilities to different team members.

SOC Reports are independent third-party audits that evaluate a service organization’s internal controls and security practices.

AWS Threat Hunting is the practice of proactively searching for security threats in AWS environments before they cause damage.

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Red team vs blue team refers to offensive security experts probing system defenses while defensive teams detect, respond to threats, and improve protection.

Managed threat hunting is a proactive security service where experts search for hidden threats automated tools miss, reducing dwell time and potential damage.

A CISSP-aligned incident response model outlines seven common steps organizations use to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents.

SOC threat hunting is a proactive cybersecurity practice where analysts actively search for signs of malicious activity that bypass traditional security controls.

DevOps is a way of working that breaks down walls between development and operations teams. This means developers and IT operations work together instead of in separate silos, which helps companies build and release software faster.

Threat hunting frameworks provide structured, repeatable methodologies for proactively searching for hidden threats that have bypassed traditional security defenses in cloud environments.

Threat hunting actively searches for hidden threats already inside your network, while threat intelligence gathers external information about potential threats to inform security strategy.

Incident response plan testing is essential for cloud-native organizations because it goes far beyond checking a box—it’s about proving your team’s ability to handle the unpredictable nature of real attacks.

Incident response certifications are professional credentials that prove you can handle security breaches when they happen. These certifications show employers that you know how to detect threats, contain damage, and get systems back to normal after an attack.

Incident response metrics are critical for understanding how efficiently your security team can identify, respond to, and recover from threats in cloud-native environments.

Nicolas Ehrman

September 23, 2025

File integrity monitoring (FIM) can protect your data through early detection. Learn how to use it, as well as how to enhance compliance and security.

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Lauren Place

July 11, 2025

A security operations center (SOC) framework defines how an organization detects, investigates, and responds to threats. A SOC framework isn’t just a policy doc. It’s the people, processes, and technologies that keep threats in check—now redesigned for cloud speed and scale.

Malware scanning is the process of inspecting files, systems, and cloud resources for signs of malicious software—before it causes damage.

Shaked Rotlevi

June 4, 2025

Compare Rapid7 and CrowdStrike: features, threat detection, endpoint protection, and performance to help you choose the right solution for your team.

A SOC manages cloud and on-premises security with complete oversight. On the other hand, MDR is an external service that provides cloud-focused threat detection and response, offloads operational complexity, and offers flexibility without internal resource expansion.

Lauren Place

April 20, 2025

Alert fatigue, sometimes known as alarm fatigue, happens when security team members are desensitized by too many notifications, leading them to miss critical signals and legitimate warnings.

To defend against malware in the cloud, businesses need a detection and response solution that’s built for the cloud, fluent in cloud-based indicators of compromise (IOCs), and enriched by cloud threat intelligence.

Credential stuffing attacks can cost a breached organization millions in fines per year. Learn more about foundations, solutions, and real-life cases.

SOCaaS outsources threat detection, investigation, and response for cost savings, scalable operations, and on-demand expertise.

Indicators of compromise (IOCs) signal a potential security breach, acting as digital evidence of suspicious activity within a system or a network.

Data exfiltration is when sensitive data is accessed without authorization or stolen. Just like any data breach, it can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, and business disruptions.

Greg Zemlin

March 18, 2025

Privilege escalation is when an attacker exploits weaknesses in your environment or infrastructure to gain higher access and control within a system or network.

Greg Zemlin

March 15, 2025

Cryptojacking is when an attacker hijacks your processing power to mine cryptocurrency for their own benefit.

Chris Champa

February 26, 2025

SecOps metrics are trackable bits of data that quantify various aspects of your security operations center (SOC), such as performance or efficiency.

Chris Champa

February 25, 2025

Explore the top best practices for an effective security operations center (SOC).

Social engineering is an attack technique that focuses on exploiting an enterprise’s employees. In a typical social engineering scenario, cybercriminals may trick or deceive employees into ignoring security protocols, making them unwitting collaborators in cyberattacks.

Chris Champa

February 15, 2025

In this post, we’ll look at where anomaly detection fits into your cybersecurity big picture, some common techniques and use cases, as well as some tips on rolling out anomaly detection without adding to your teams’ workload.

In this post, we’ll explore similarities and differences between the NOC and SOC. Then we’ll take a look at some tools that help NOCs and SOCs accomplish their core functions—as well as some tips for overcoming the main challenges to their smooth operation within your organization.

Ziad Ghalleb

November 15, 2024

Application detection and response (ADR) is an approach to application security that centers on identifying and mitigating threats at the application layer.

Shashank Golla

October 29, 2024

Cloud security monitoring refers to the continuous observation and analysis of cloud-based resources, services, and infrastructure to detect security threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance risks.

Greg Zemlin

September 5, 2024

Most incident response teams measure both MTTD and MTTR to not only shorten attackers’ dwell times in their systems but also to gauge the team’s readiness to combat future security incidents and then optimize response times.

Chris Champa

August 19, 2024

Cloud threat modeling is a systematic approach designed to uncover, evaluate, and rank the potential security vulnerabilities and dangers unique to cloud-based systems and infrastructure.

A security operations center (SOC) team is a group of highly skilled professionals responsible for scanning IT environments and identifying and remediating cybersecurity threats and incidents

Chris Champa

August 5, 2024

Cloud forensics is a branch of digital forensics that applies investigative techniques to collecting and evaluating critical evidence in cloud computing environments following a security incident.

Credential access is a cyberattack technique where threat actors access and hijack legitimate user credentials to gain entry into an enterprise's IT environments.

Greg Zemlin

June 20, 2024

MITRE ATT&CK®, a publicly available security toolkit that helps enterprises overcome cyber threats, defines defense evasion as a way for malicious actors to evade detection during an attack.

Greg Zemlin

May 6, 2024

Wade through the alphabet soup of detection and response technologies to understand where they overlap and how they differ.