From the Winter 2018 Issue

Implementing Automated Cyber Defense

Dr. Scott Jasper
Senior Lecturer, Captain, U.S. Navy, Retired | Naval Postgraduate School

Today, massive numbers of uncorrelated and unprioritized alerts overwhelm network security operations. Staff are unable to respond to breaches anywhere near real-time. Legacy architectures layer “best of breed” components for firewall, intrusion protection, web content filtering and antivirus protection, each of which generates a unique set of alerts. Additional devices only contribute to an ever increasing total. Often, these alerts are duplicative, reporting on the same event, exacerbating the problem. A different approach, one that can operate effectively at network scale and attack tempo, is needed. This approach requires a new architecture that fuses endpoint solutions with network- and . . .

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