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New SOC research reveals security teams
overconfident in detecting cyberthreats
also fielded to determine how
analysts and SOC management
view key aspects of their operations,
hiring and staffing, retention,
technologies, training and funding.
xabeam, a Smarter SIEM
E company, has released
its annual 2020 State of
the SOC Report, examining the
processes and effectiveness of
corporate Security Operations
Centres (SOCs). This year’s
study reveals that 82% of SOCs
are confident in the ability to
detect cyberthreats, despite just
22% of frontline workers tracking
mean time to detection (MTTD),
which helps determine hacker dwell
time. Compounding this unfounded
confidence, 40% of organisations still
struggle with SOC staff shortages
and finding qualified people to fill the
cybersecurity skills gap.
The survey, conducted among 295
respondents across the US, the UK,
Canada, Germany and Australia, was
“From 2018–2019, we learned that
dwell time – or the time between
when a compromise first occurs
and when it is first detected –
has grown. Based on this, it is
surprising for SOCs to report such
inflated confidence in detecting
cyberthreats,” said Steve Moore,
Chief Security Strategist at Exabeam.
“We see great progress in the SOC
with attention paid to employee
well-being, measures for better
communication and more. However,
disparate perceptions of the SOCs’
effectiveness could be dangerously
interpreted by the C-suite as
assurances that the company is well
protected and secure, when it’s not.”
MCAFEE REVOLUTIONISES ITS ENDPOINT
SECURITY PLATFORM
cAfee, a device-to-cloud
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cybersecurity company,
has announced the general
availability of McAfee MVISION Insights,
the industry’s first proactive security
solution that changes the cybersecurity
paradigm by helping to stop threats
before the attack.
MVISION Insights provides actionable
and preemptive threat intelligence by
leveraging McAfee’s cutting-edge threat
research, augmented with sophisticated
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to real
time threat telemetry streamed from over
one billion sensors. The integration of
MVISION Insights significantly enhances
the capabilities of McAfee’s awardwinning
endpoint security platform by
managing the attack surface, preventing
ransomware and aiding security teams
to easily investigate and respond to
advanced attacks.
According to recent internal research
by McAfee, over 90% of security
teams feel that they are not proactively
prepared for the emerging threat
landscape. While there is a plethora of
threat intelligence feeds available in the
market, actionable and contextual threat
intelligence is hard to find.
Additionally, multiple siloed endpoint
security tools are tiring down security
teams who are struggling to enable their
organisations to safely adopt the cloud
for Digital Transformation. The integration
of MVISION Insights into McAfee’s
endpoint security platform is designed to
eliminate some of the burden on security
operations professionals.
Ash Kulkarni, Executive Vice President
and Chief Product Officer of the
Enterprise Business Group at McAfee,
said: “Our latest endpoint security
innovation, MVISION Insights, delivers
the industry’s first actionable threat
intelligence so organisations can
preempt an attack rather than scramble
to contain a breach.” u
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