The Stellar Cyber September Product Update As summer ends and the kids tearing up your house for the past 12 weeks head back to school, it’s time to let you know what the product team has been up to here at  Stellar Cyber . We have made some nice updates to our  Open XDR Platform  in between riding the rapids and soaking up the sun. For all those users out there, check out the release notes in the help section of the dashboard, where you can see our head of product management  Sam Jones  walk you through the new goodies. Since you might be reading this on a train, subway, or some other place where you can’t hop onto the platform, I’ll give you a recap of what you can expect in 4.3.4. “You Get SSO; You Get SSO!” Just like no two snowflakes are the same  (which is true, by the way) , no two organizations have the exact single-sign-on (SSO) requirements. That might be a slight overstatement, but you get the idea that organizations’ SSO policies can...

  Recently I wrote a blog about  what makes a lean security team tick , however, after I posted, it occurred to me that I probably should have spent a few minutes talking about the different types of security teams we run into and how to determine if you fit into the lean security team category. You might say, well, why do I care if I am on, or manage, a lean security team or not? Great question. Let me answer that question with a short story from my personal experience.  I have worked for seven different  cybersecurity  startups, from very early in their lives to very late in the startup lifecycle. At each company, the resources available to the marketing team varied widely. For instance, at company A, if I wanted to produce a video, I would do it all myself, from recording to editing to posting. However, at company B, for that same video, I would provide the content while a team of others would work on the editing and publishing. You could say company A had a ...

  Introduction: The next generation of security intelligence is here, and it’s called  extended detection and response (XDR) .  XDR  is a technology that enables organizations to detect and respond to advanced threats faster, easier and with greater accuracy than ever before. It does this by unifying disparate data sources in one centralized location and providing richer visibility into threats than  SIEM .  XDR helps detect and respond to threats faster and easier than SIEM XDR  is an open framework that helps detect and respond to threats faster and easier than  SIEM .  XDR  is a more powerful and flexible solution than  SIEM .  XDR  is more scalable than  SIEM .  XDR  is easier to use than  SIEM XDR can unify a wide range of data that SIEM cannot The most significant  advantage of XDR  over  SIEM  is that it can unify a wide range of data that  SIEM  cannot. Let’s say yo...

  When budgets and resources are high, security teams have the luxury of building complex security infrastructures made up of only best-of-breed  security products . See a new widget that claims to solve a narrow  security challenge . Sure, add it to the stack. Heard about a revolutionary way to do this or that slightly better; no problem, we will just rip out what we have deployed and use this newer, slightly better product instead. However, we all know this world doesn’t exist for the security team that has to fight for every dollar of their security budget. These teams might use computers a little older than they would like, and their monitors might not be as large as they want. Still, despite shoestring budgets and stretched resources, they deliver security outcomes that any organization would be grateful to achieve. So how do they do it?  Adaptability:   Cybersecurity , like any other discipline, is a conglomeration of several different activities that, in ...