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Cover Your Security Bases
It's the March edition of the CINS Brief, and Nomic Networks CEO Ted Gruenloh explores how municipalities and resource-limited organizations can effectively navigate layered security. From SCADA to identity management, this month's newsletter highlights essential focus areas for cybersecurity, introduces the new Nomic Signals launch, and offers guidance on achieving visibility without a SIEM.
Featured Article
What Most Smaller Organizations Get Wrong When Choosing Managed Cybersecurity
Traditional defenses — EDR, firewalls, and maybe something like a SIEM — can prove complex and unwieldy for smaller teams, and using these tools in isolation creates security gaps that sophisticated attackers can exploit. So after these traditional tools, where do you look next?
A Third Dimension of Visibility
In the News
Smart Security on a Budget
So how do you navigate a world of layered security with limited resources? The key is picking the right layers, but since every organization is different, that's harder than it sounds. One example is SIEMs ... Piggybacking off our blog from last month, SIEMs can be expensive and hard to manage, so shrewd organizations are looking for "SIEM-less" solutions that fill those visibility gaps in creative ways without the cost and complexity.
- What is anomaly detection? Behavior-based analysis for cyber threats (CSO Online)
- Remote access infra remains riskiest corp. attack surface (Dark Reading)
- Budget crunch putting cybersecurity for industrial systems at risk (SC World)
- CISOs should address identity management ‘as fast as they can’ says CrowdStrike exec (CSO Online)
- Cyber hygiene habits that many still ignore (HelpNetSecurity)
- The state of ransomware: Fragmented but still potent despite takedowns (CSO Online)
Nomic News
Threat actors are increasing in sophistication and aren’t making exceptions for the small or underprepared. The same threats that target Fortune 500s also come after SMBs and organizations just growing into their digital maturity. Smaller organizations now need to be protected more than ever, but where to start? In recent years, managed services have stepped in to solve this paradox in various novel ways.
Learn How Managed NDR Protects SMBs
Why is it called the "CINS Brief" Newsletter?
"CINS" is a reference to the CINS Army. As one of the first widely distributed threat intelligence feeds, CINS Army filters out most of the noise caused by malicious scanners, allowing analysts to focus on more important threats. Its strength comes from the source of its data: A diverse Nomic customer base made up of real networks, with real people behind them.
