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August 16, 2023

What is the Purple Team in Cybersecurity? Purple Teaming Explained | SimSpace

Teaming exercises are a valuable way for organizations to practice responding to cyber threats and hone their defensive capabilities. However, these exercises are often limited to a simple attack-and-response cycle, which can miss important opportunities for collaboration.

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August 2, 2023

How to Perform a Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

A single data breach can cost millions of dollars in lost revenue, damage your reputation, and result in regulatory fines. Preventing these breaches requires a cycle of continuous improvements, identifying weaknesses in the organization’s security structure and then taking action to address them. Regular cybersecurity risk assessments are the first step in that process.

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July 19, 2023

What is a Red Team Exercise and Why Is It Important? | SimSpace

An actual cyber attack shouldn't be the first time your team responds to a cybersecurity incident. Just like a firefighter wouldn't run into a burning building without prior training and experience, cybersecurity professionals need preparation and practice before responding to real-world threats. That’s where red team exercises shine. Red team exercises are simulated attacks designed to challenge and test an organization's defenses, incident response capabilities, preparedness, and overall resilience. The results yielded can help organizations identify and fix vulnerabilities in their security systems, enabling better prevention, detection, and response to cyberattacks.

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July 5, 2023

Cyber Risk Management Explained: Strategies for Continuous Improvement

Do you have a robust cyber risk management plan in place that you update regularly? If your answer isn't an astounding yes, it's time to take action.

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June 29, 2023

What is Cybersecurity Posture and How Can Teams Assess It?

How well is your organization prepared to fight back against cyber threats? Your ability to prevent attacks and mitigate them when they occur is a key element of your organization’s cybersecurity posture, which serves as the foundation for organizational resiliency.

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June 16, 2023

What is a Firewall?

I am continuing my series of blogs that spends time discussing the components of the network and network security stack. Many/most organizations will have the basic components of the stack, and as we move towards other tools and solutions that fit further out on the edge of the stack, some may fall off. However, that doesn’t mean it will remain that way. As we all know, technology, networking, security and threats constantly evolves.

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June 14, 2023

5 Things to Know Before Entering a Cyber Range Simulation

Cybersecurity isn’t an annual or even quarterly obligation — it’s a continuous, cyclical activity. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and complex, businesses must prioritize constant improvement to stay ahead.

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May 30, 2023

Threat Detection and Response Best Practices

When your organization is hit with a cyberattack, every second counts. The more time an attacker spends in your systems, the more likely they will inflict serious damage, leading to systems downtime, data loss and skyrocketing recovery costs.

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May 23, 2023

How Cyber Ranges Help Organizations Achieve Cyber Readiness

How can you prevent a cyber attack? Unfortunately, you can’t. But you can control how prepared you are to respond to a potential attack.

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May 10, 2023

Red Team vs. Blue Team: Cybersecurity Teaming Exercises Explained

As security teams face off against attackers, they need to know that their technical security controls and detection rules work as intended. To validate their processes and technologies, cybersecurity teams engage in penetration testing, a type of authorized simulated attack against the company’s systems that evaluate a security program’s effectiveness.

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May 1, 2023

5 Key Takeaways from RSA 2023

RSA 2023 is officially in the books, and it was an excellent event for SimSpace. In the picture above, you can see that we had great weather, and yes, I took that picture with my phone. Attendance at RSA was reported to be over 40,000 people, 600 vendors, and 500 press and analysts. SimSpace and our booth partners Cymulate and Cyconito saw great booth traffic and had a very busy week. As I look back on the week, I have five key observations:

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April 25, 2023

Join us, RSA Conference 2023 at Booth 2045

Join SimSpace - Booth 2045, Moscone Center’s South Expo Hall together with Google-Mandiant, Cycognito, and Cymulate at RSA Conference 2023. We will show you how to find answers to the most challenging cyber security and governance questions with our Military-Grade Cyber Ranges.

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