Hank Schless

Blog – Threat Stack

Containers bring many benefits to DevOps teams along with a number of security concerns. This post brings you details about 50 Docker training resources that are designed to train beginner, intermediate, and advanced practitioners on current knowledge about Docker. Note: On Thursday, September 27, we’ll be holding our Builders of ... Read More

Last month we announced that a containerized version of the Threat Stack Agent was coming soon for customers who are using containers to deploy cloud workloads. Today, we are excited to announce that our Docker Containerized Agent is now generally available. As cloud infrastructure shifts more heavily towards containers, we ... Read More

22 AWS Security Pros Reveal the Most Underused/Under-Appreciated AWS Security Metrics AWS offers a variety of built-in security features that users can take advantage of, but it’s easy for users of all experience levels to get lost in the sea of options and metrics. In fact, in a November 2017 ... Read More

The months leading up to May 25, 2018 produced a steady barrage of articles urging organizations to get ready for the GDPR and warning about the consequences of failing to comply. After May 25? . . . To be honest, not much. There are still lots of articles — “Tips ... Read More

Cloud security is arguably the most rapidly changing technology landscape out there. Naturally, the market for security tools is also constantly evolving as organizations continue to develop an understanding of the importance of a mature security posture and the effect it has on the entire organization — from innovation to ... Read More

Every day, malicious actors are taking more complex routes into cloud infrastructure and leveraging increasingly covert traits to persist for longer periods of time. As Dark Reading put it in a recent article, “Attackers are abusing the characteristics of cloud services to launch and hide their activity as they traverse ... Read More

As part of its mission, Threat Stack has always brought its readers security-related content to help them make informed decisions that will strengthen their organizations’ security. With more companies than ever leveraging cloud services like AWS, and with cloud environments becoming more and more complex, it’s critical that organizations develop ... Read More

While reacting to alerts and incidents after they occur will always be a reality of the security professional’s job, a purely reactive security approach is simply not effective given the way that today’s technical infrastructures and the cyber ecosystem itself have become ever more complex. With organizations adopting new technologies ... Read More

Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Know (MTTK) are two of the most important metrics in security operations. Respectively, they measure the following: MTTD: How quickly you can identify something and generate an alert. It determines how fast you’re notified when something suspicious happens anywhere in your ... Read More