Since being launched in 2019, Azure Sentinel has quickly secured a spot within the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space. In a market dominated by Microsoft software, its integration capabilities with the Azure Cloud platform and the Defender endpoint protection ecosystem have provided the platform with significant competitive advantages. Moreover, its ease of deployment has subverted the timelines and complexity typically associated with SIEM implementation projects.

As more businesses look to migrate or adopt Azure Sentinel, security teams must be ready to support their organisation’s ambitions - a Sentinel lab can help get your team ready before the time comes.

Running effective incident simulations is an incredibly challenging task. Security teams often run at maximum capacity and have limited time for non-essential activities. This is especially true with data breach simulations. Security teams focus most energies on detecting and responding to malicious network activities occuring early during attacks. In this context, data breaches typically are the end result, rather than the trigger, of a successful network compromise. Because of these constraints and considerations, data breach simulations must perfectly balance planning efficiency, realism and value generation - fortunately, by using a few simple tricks, this balance is generally achievable for most security teams.

If you work in cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance (GRC), chances are you’ve been asked to run rapid risk assessments. The story is often the same: you are going about your day when suddenly a manager asks you to run a security risk assessment for a new tool or project. Unsurprisingly, deadlines are often tight as everything stops while stakeholders wait for security approval. When this happens, how can we deliver risk assessment as fast as possible?

An ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) landing page is a resource that provides information about an organisation’s ISMS. It can be used to educate employees about information security, communicate the organisation’s commitment to information security, and demonstrate that the organisation is meeting the requirements of ISO 27001.

Creating a good landing page is not at all complicated: a few simple building blocks are needed and the trick is to know what ISMS pages to include within the different sections of the landing page.