This post is coauthored by Rob May, Founder and Managing Director, ramsac
The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with ramsac Founder and Managing Director Rob May, who gave a TED Talk called “Your Human Firewall: The Answer to the Cyber Security Problem.” The thoughts below reflect Rob’s views, not the views of Rob’s company or Microsoft, and are not legal advice. In this blog post, Rob talks about security operations (SecOps) challenges and how automation can address them, and shares phishing attack protection strategies.
Brooke: What are the biggest challenges in SecOps?
Rob: SecOps is the team responsible for the security of an organization’s IT infrastructure, and for monitoring and responding to security threats and implementing security controls. One challenge for SecOps professionals is keeping up-to-date on the latest trends and tactics used by cyberattackers because threats to security are constantly evolving.
Another challenge is alert fatigue. Security teams are bombarded with alerts from their monitoring tools, and this can make it difficult to identify and respond to real threats. Many of the alerts that security teams receive are false positives that waste time and resources that could be better spent responding to real threats. In the industry, we talk about the utopia of having a single pane of glass that we can look through and get a view of everything. The reality is, in lots of organiza ..
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