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Send us Fan Mail  Vulnerability management programs form the foundation of most managed security services and SOC efforts. Despite a plethora of scanning and discovery tools, I remember as a former SOC Manager how difficult it was to maintain comprehensive visibility of managed assets and to provide quick reaction to detected vulnerabilities. Remediation efforts were often laborious and it was dif...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly sits down with two members of Securely Managed LLC to discuss the day-to-day operations of a MSSP and a SOC as a service. Richard Cozart, Security Architect, and Michael Staley, SOC Director, go over the ins and outs of running 24/7 managed security services and review some of the fundamental technologies that make a SOC go.

Send us Fan Mail Active Cyber sits down with Sajay Rai - CEO of Securely Yours - to discuss what it takes to be "cyber ready." Sajay dives into the consulting offerings of Securely Yours, describes the foundational standards and guides for becoming cyber ready, and discusses how different customers in different industries at different levels of maturity look at cyber readiness a little d...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly of Active Cyber sits down with Sajay Rai, CEO of Securely Managed LLC, a top 250 MSSP, to discuss the challenges of being a MSSP. He reveals how he customizes offerings and partners with leading vendors to meet the changing needs of his diverse customer set. He also discusses his journey from security consulting to MSSP and how his sister company - Securely Yours, which...

Send us Fan Mail  Assuring the secure adoption of a new technology, assessing your software supply chain for risks, hunting for vulnerabilities in your infrastructure are all complex and challenging tasks - but ones that are critical to securing your business or government agency. Having specialized, automated tools that are seamlessly integrated using standard methods and interfaces can significa...

Send us Fan Mail Kurtis Minder, CEO of Groupsense - a digital risk protection services company , and Ritesh Agrawal, CEO of Airgap Networks - a cybersecurity vendor of the industry’s first agentless Ransomware Kill Switch, met with Chris Daly in this podcast by ActiveCyber.net to discuss their partnership to help companies fight ransomware. Clients can microsegment their networks to automatically...

Send us Fan Mail As a former SOC Director, I can appreciate the value of a cyber platform that provides the hygiene and cleaning of the network. Although the mantra of "assume breach" is often valid, we still need to pay close and continuous attention to preventative measures. That is also the target area of Cyvatar who provides a "Cybersecurity-as-a-Service" offering. I got a...

Send us Fan Mail This week is a busy week for those getting ready for Black Hat and Defcon. So I felt very lucky to land an interview with John Morgan - the CEO of Confluera, a cybersecurity start-up focused on endpoint detection and response. Learn how Confluera's innovative storyboarding platform provides enhanced insights for runtime threat detection and response. Find out why they are foc...

Send us Fan Mail Djenana Campara, CEO of KDM Analytics along with Steve Seiden, President of AcquireData Solutions (ADS) and Dr. Tony Barber discuss the features and benefits of the Blade Risk Assessment tool. Blade applies a model-based systems engineering approach to risk assessment while using NIST RMF controls to provide a strong foundation for developing mitigations for identified risk areas....

Send us Fan Mail John D - the founder of AR start-up Virfiti - describes some of the use cases, technology and opportunities in the field of augmented reality in this interview with Chris Daly of Active Cyber.net. Learn how SLAM, Unity3D, meshed point clouds, blockchain, image recognition, social media all play together as John takes us through a technology journey that will become a disrupter and...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Daly of Active Cyber and Major General Matthews discuss emerging cyber issues, the role of security instrumentation platforms such as Verodin, and emerging IoT security requirements.