The Tech Oven

I n this technology-driven world, every business, despite the size, make committed efforts to protect their sensitive data from sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks. The probability of a breach has increased, so does the cost to mitigate them. Organizations are ceaselessly working on finding reliable defensive strategies against cyberattacks. This is the point where a Security Operations Center (SOC) comes to the stage. A Security Operation Center (SOC) is a centralized function within an organization engaging people, processes, and technology to continuously monitor and enhance an organization's security posture while preventing, detecting, analyzing, and responding to anomalous cybersecurity activities. It acts like the hub or central command post, taking in telemetry from across an organization's IT infrastructure such as networks, devices, appliances, and information stores etc. How a SOC Works? A SOC is an example for the software as a service (SaaS) software model whic...

Breaking down a company’s security protections required a lot of time and skills a long time ago. However, with today’s technological advances, finding an organization’s loopholes have become a piece of cake for the cybercriminals out there. Enterprise networks are facing non-stop attacks. Your business, institute or organization also can be a target of the cybercriminals in any minute. Ignoring these vulnerabilities can lead to system breaches, loss of personal customer data and affect the reputation of your business at the end of the day. Security and penetration testing is the only way to identify those exposures. So let’s give a break to your curiosity and start talking about “Penetration Testing”. What is Penetration Testing? Penetration testing is a common way for organizations to test their security maturity and identify potential vulnerabilities in a system (ex: application protocol interfaces (APIs), frontend/backend servers), network, or application. Poor architecture des...