CEO

The adoption of innovative technologies is crucial in today’s business environment – driven by the ongoing pressure to acquire more customers by launching new services in a faster and more convenient way. But adopting new technologies always brings with it a slew of security challenges, making it harder to maintain a secure working environment that provides protection from cyber threats.
For many organizations it’s the security team that is most impacted by this kind of deliberation. When senior management opts to purchase new technologies, it is the security operations team that must find ways to monitor, identify, and intercept any anomalous behaviors or vulnerabilities that could be indicative of a cyber attack.
It’s a moving target – and it’s not the only challenge security teams deal with on a daily basis. There’s also the challenge of a continually changing threat landscape, with new kinds of attacks and different threat actors cropping up daily.
Moreover, the number of alerts that security teams are expected to handle on a daily basis is expected to continue to grow. And the sheer number of alerts leads to “alert fatigue” on the part of security teams, who can’t keep up with the workload.
The answer to this problem lies in leveraging automation, which plays a key role in lightening the load and improves efficiencies and accuracy – providing enrichment from both internal and external sources, the contextual information needed for analysts to identify and prioritize which alerts are high risk and need to be handled first.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bill Bonner;Nashid Shahriar;Nashid Shahriar

Student:

Partner:

NGIT Services Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Regina

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