Strength in Numbers

Threats can be detected and averted at an early stage with crowd security, in which organizations form a community to take concentrated action against cyberattacks by sharing attack data. We explain how this strategy works with the CrowdSec cloud service.

Thomas Joos

Cyberattacks are constantly on the rise, and ransomware is spreading rapidly. As a result, corporations also need to update their security strategies constantly. And it is better to fight against aggressors together than go it alone, according to CrowdSec [1], an open source cloud service and participative intrusion protection system (IPS) capable of analyzing the behavior of systems and providing a customized response to attacks. The tool acts as a community, sharing attack intelligence and fighting cyber criminals together. In this way, corporations can rely on data from the entire community to protect their servers, and not just on information obtained from their enterprise. Information can come from syslogs, CloudTrail events, security information and event management (SIEM) systems, and other sources (e.g., from firewalls or the event viewer of Windows…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, January/February 2023

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