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SANS Institute Survey: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

26 Apr 2024
Greg Scheidel, Terry Allan Hicks

Active Directory: Tactical Containment to Curb Domain Dominance

WhitepaperCloud Security

22 Apr 2024

Buyers Guide: How to Secure Egress Traffic from Workloads in the Public Cloud

WhitepaperCloud Security, Security Awareness

22 Mar 2024
Dave Shackleford

Shift Left to Shift Everywhere: Continuous Development’s Impact on Security

WhitepaperCloud Security

21 Mar 2024
Chris Edmundson

Shining a Light in the Dark: Observability and Security

WhitepaperCloud Security, Cyber Defense

21 Mar 2024
Matt Bromiley

SANS 2024 Threat Hunting Survey: Hunting for Normal Within Chaos

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response

19 Mar 2024
Mathias Fuchs, Josh Lemon

Accelerating Incident Response: Applying Confidence Aggregation to Defensive Artifacts

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response

19 Mar 2024

Securely Moving to the Government Cloud

WhitepaperCloud Security

19 Mar 2024
Matt Bromiley

The Art of Network File Sharing Forensics and Data Recovery

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response

12 Mar 2024

Modernizing AppSec with Application Security Posture Management

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

7 Mar 2024
Matt Bromiley

Operationalized Threat Intelligence

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

5 Mar 2024
Matt Bromiley

Prevention Strategies for Modern Living Off the Land Usage

WhitepaperCyber Defense

4 Mar 2024