Monad Community Bytes🍿

Welcome to the August edition of Monad Community Bytes!  

We're back from another successful BlackHat and in the following section we'll brief you on how it all went! We'll also what the security tool sprawl problem looks like in 2024 and the new OCSF v1.3.0 release. Now, without further ado, let's dig into it!

BlackHat 2024 Recap ✅

We're all about our community here at Monad so of course amidst all the prospect and customer meetings, we carved out time to hang out with our friends. We also had the opportunity to practice Jiu-Jitsu with former UFC lightweight champion, Forrest Griffin!

During our week at Blackhat, we identified three key themes:

1. Security leaders do not need more "visibility" or capabilities. They need help in knowing what to prioritize and remediate. This was something we heard MULTIPLE times from CISOs at the Innovators & Investors summit which you can read more about in this recap post I wrote.
2. Many security teams are rethinking their SOC tooling. They're breaking away from traditional SIEMs and seek advanced ETL capabilities; scalable and flexible data stores and querying capabilities; and more cost-effective options. What worked in 2014 doesn't work in today's landscape.
3. Adversaries continue to leverage AI to launch sophisticated attacks. Whether it's phishing, credential spraying or launching DDoS attacks, adversaries continue to leverage Generative AI to achieve their goals.

As we enter Q4, these trends are likely to accelerate. The security community needs to focus on developing practical, scalable solutions that address these evolving threats and operational challenges head-on. We're happy to say that Monad is at the forefront of solving for the first two themes.

Cybersecurity tool sprawl is out of control – and it’s only going to get worse

It's no secret that the security industry has a tool sprawl problem. Research has consistently shown that enterprises use an average of 70-130 security products. This proliferation is mostly driven by the evolving threat landscape and a fragmented vendor market with over 3,700 vendors selling more than 8,000 products 🤯

While walking the Blackhat Expo Hall, I noticed an immense amount of overlap in capabilities. The tool sprawl and accompanying data silos are core reasons why Monad was founded.

We believe that security teams need better methods of getting value from their security stack and cross-pollinating insights to prioritize their most pressing risks and vulnerabilities. We've built highly intelligent and flexible integrations and data pipelines to help security teams adopt more advanced approaches to security.  

Read more about the tool sprawl problem here.

OCSF v1.3.0 is Out!

OCSF v1.3.0 recently came out and it introduces significant enhancements that help ease the thrash of standardizing security data. Key additions include:

• New category for remediation events.
• Seven new event classes across System Activity, Discovery, and Remediation categories.
• A new OSINT profile for threat intelligence datasets.

The new release includes several more updates which you can read about here.

Join Our Slack Community!

If you're a security practitioner that builds data pipelines, log parsers, KPI dashboards and/or are deep in the detection and response weeds and would like to join our exclusive Slack community, shoot us a message at community@monad.com!

We have tons of surprises and presentations with some of your favorite industry SMEs. Join us. We're just getting started! 😏

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