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Unveiling PikaBot: Optimizing Intrusion Detection for Evolving Malware Threat

WhitepaperCyber Defense

11 Jun 2024

SANS 2024 Application Security & API Survey: Protecting our Applications and APIs

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness, Offensive Operations

5 Jun 2024
Matt Bromiley, David Hazar

How to Use NERC-CIP: An Overview of the Standards and Their Deployment with Fortinet

WhitepaperIndustrial Control Systems Security

1 Jun 2024
Stephen Mathezer

Optimizing Security Operations with Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSOAR

WhitepaperCyber Defense

31 May 2024
Matt Bromiley

Detecting Cypher Injection with Open-Source Network Intrusion Detection

WhitepaperCyber Defense

29 May 2024

SANS CISO Primer: 4 Cyber Trends That Will Move the Needle in 2024

WhitepaperCybersecurity Leadership

25 May 2024
James Lyne

QUIC-Tun: QUIC Firewall Evasion

WhitepaperCyber Defense

23 May 2024

The Five ICS Cybersecurity Critical Controls and the Electric Sector

WhitepaperIndustrial Control Systems Security

23 May 2024
Dean Parsons

SANS 2024 CTI Survey: Managing the Evolving Threat Landscape

WhitepaperCybersecurity and IT Essentials

21 May 2024
Rebekah Brown, Andreas Sfakianakis

Protecting Critical Water Systems with the Five ICS Cybersecurity Critical Controls

WhitepaperIndustrial Control Systems Security

20 May 2024
Dean Parsons

Beyond the Inbox: Strategies for Safeguarding Your Organization's Email Communications

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response

7 May 2024

You Can Run but You Cannot Hide (In Process Memory): Observing Process Injection with eBPF in Linux

WhitepaperDigital Forensics and Incident Response

3 May 2024