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A role for every tool

Posted on September 20, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on A role for every tool

Recently, I heard some discussion about how our field comes up with new tools to help augment the workforce. They attempt to make life easier for us by automating menial tasks, or bringing things under one easy shell (pun intended). I also have come to understand that part of the reason for this is that…

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Noise, Noise oh the Noise

Posted on June 21, 2018 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Noise, Noise oh the Noise

So many security controls. So much noise. It is a wonder we find anything at all relevant. The amount of time spent going through log after log is amazing. Even with SIEMs, dashboards, machine learning and “AI” there is still a ton of logs to go through. Yes we can whittle away once we know…

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