Posts from Heidi Gabrielson
19-Mar-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
SteelCentral NPM xx80 Hardware is Like Quicksilver
The new SteelCentral NPM hardware release reminds me a bit of the Marvel X-men superhero Quicksilver. Quicksilver has the superhuman ability to move at great...
04-Mar-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Data Exfiltration is a Big Problem
Call it what you will—data exfiltration, data breach, data loss, or data leakage – the theft of valuable corporate information is a persistent and inescapable...
11-Feb-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Get Peak Performance from SteelCentral AppResponse
It’s well known that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spends his off-season and his time off trying to improve his throwing mechanics and to make his...
11-Feb-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Three Cyber Threat Hunting Myths
In my last cyber threat hunting blog, I defined cyber threat hunting and outlined when and why you should use it. Just to reiterate, cyber threat...
04-Feb-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Five Common Misconceptions about DDoS
In my first blog on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) detection, “DDoS: It’s Not a Matter of If, But When,” I provide a brief understanding why someone might...
21-Jan-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Why Use Cyber Threat Hunting?
It probably comes as no surprise that cybersecurity attacks are getting more sophisticated; more varied; and they’re increasing in scope. For example, in 2017, there...
07-Jan-2019 • by Heidi Gabrielson
DDoS: It’s Not a Matter of If, But When
A distributed-denial-of-service or DDoS attack is a cyber-attack that renders a machine or network resource that is connected to the Internet temporarily unreachable to its...
04-Dec-2018 • by Heidi Gabrielson
Network Security Analytics: It Makes Good Sense
A couple years ago, I bought a new townhouse in a quiet suburban neighborhood. It’s lovely but, as I’m a single woman with only an...
05-Sep-2018 • by Heidi Gabrielson