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☁️ Is your cloud environment configured for security — or for risk?

Misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of cloud breaches, and they're rarely the result of carelessness. They happen because teams move fast, environments grow complex, and the shared responsibility model is easy to misunderstand.

Our latest blog breaks down 15 of the riskiest cloud misconfigurations across five key domains:

🔐 Identity & Access Management — over permissive roles, no MFA, hardcoded credentials
📦 Storage & Data Exposure — public buckets, unencrypted data, exposed backups
🌐 Network Security — open security groups, flat networks, unrestricted outbound traffic
⚙️ Compute & Workloads — exposed management interfaces, overprivileged service accounts
📋 Logging & Governance — disabled logging, no alerting, default configs, insecure IaC

Each one includes how to identify it and how to fix it.

If you're responsible for cloud security — or just trying to reduce your attack surface — this is worth a read.
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15 Risky Cloud Misconfigurations and How To Mitigate Them Learn the most common cloud misconfigurations, why they are risky, and practical ways security teams can identify and remediate cloud security risks.

Is your security team actually watching the right signals in Windows?

Most organizations log everything, but monitoring everything is not the same as monitoring the right things.

Windows generates thousands of events daily. The ones that matter fall into a handful of critical categories that together tell the story of what's really happening inside your environment:

→ Logon & authentication events: who got in, who failed, and who's moving laterally
→ Privilege use & object access: what sensitive resources are being touched, and by whom
→ Account & identity lifecycle: new users, deleted accounts, group membership changes
→ Scheduled tasks & process ex*****on: how attackers establish persistence and run payloads
→ Policy & audit integrity: signs that someone is trying to blind your logging stack
→ Active Directory & domain trust changes: the crown jewels of your identity infrastructure
→ Antivirus & endpoint telemetry: detections, failures, and quarantine events

Each category maps directly to attacker tactics in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Skipping even one of them leaves a gap a motivated threat actor will find.

The challenge isn't collecting these events — it's correlating them at speed, across every system, without drowning your team in noise.

That's exactly what a well-tuned SIEM or log management platform is built for.

Which of these categories does your team have the least confidence in right now? Drop a comment — I'd love to hear what gaps organizations are navigating.

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Critical Windows Event ID's to Monitor MIcrosoft offers a wide array of business critical technology solutions and logging capabilities to help manage security which can become overwhelming. This list of critical Event IDs to monitor can help you get started.

Is your organization operating in India — or handling data of Indian residents? You need to understand the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA).

India's landmark data privacy law establishes clear obligations for any organization that collects and processes personal data. Here's what you need to know:

🔍 Who must comply?
Any organization handling personal data — private companies, government bodies, startups, NGOs, platforms, and employers. There are even stricter obligations for organizations designated as "Significant Data Fiduciaries," including mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessments and an India-based Data Protection Officer.

📋 How does it define personal data?
Broadly — any data that can directly or indirectly identify an individual, including when combined with other data points. This goes well beyond traditional sensitive data categories.

⚖️ What rights do Data Principals have?
✅ Right to access information
✅ Right to correction, completion, and erasure
✅ Right to grievance redressal
✅ Right to nominate a representative

🔐 What security safeguards are required?
The DPDP Rules specify concrete measures: encryption, access controls, log monitoring, breach detection, data backups, and vendor contracts — all with a 72-hour breach notification requirement to India's Data Protection Board.

For security and compliance teams, a centralized SIEM with audit logging, user behavior monitoring, and automated compliance reporting is key to achieving and demonstrating DPDPA compliance.

Read our full breakdown of what the DPDPA means for your organization 👇
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India's Data Protection Law: The Digital Personal Data Protection Act Understand India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), including key rights, obligations, and practical steps organizations can take to achieve compliance and strengthen data security.

Missed our What's New in Graylog 7.1 webinar? The replay is now available. 🎬

Graylog 7.1 was built for lean security and IT ops teams who need real outcomes — not more tools, more add-ons, or more manual work. In this 30-minute session, we walk through what's new and what it means for your team:

✅ Automatic investigation creation & case-based triage workflows
✅ New anomaly detection baselines — Impossible Travel & Log Fluctuation Detection
✅ Dynamic shard sizing for faster search performance
✅ Native Azure Blob Storage support & parallel archive restores
✅ A fully revamped Inputs page for large-scale environments

Whether you're on Graylog Open, Enterprise, or Security — there's something in 7.1 for you.

👉 Watch the replay: https://graylog.info/4tOqB3Y

Webinars: Webinar: What's New in 7.1 Graylog 7.1 is built for lean security and IT operations teams who need real outcomes, not more tools, more add-ons, or more manual work. This 30-minute deep dive session covers what's new and what it means for your team.

Understanding the Australian Information Security Manual (ISM)

The Essential Eight is a great starting point — but for organizations that need a more comprehensive security program, the Australian Signals Directorate's Information Security Manual goes much deeper.

Updated in December 2025 to address emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, the ISM provides a risk-based framework built around six core cybersecurity principles:

🔹 Govern — Build a resilient security culture with clear executive accountability
🔹 Identify — Know your assets and their associated risks
🔹 Protect — Implement controls across the full system lifecycle
🔹 Detect — Centralize logs and analyze events in real time
🔹 Respond — Contain, eradicate, and recover from incidents swiftly
🔹 Recover — Resume operations safely after an incident

From system hardening and cryptography to AI application development and cloud procurement, the ISM covers the full breadth of modern cybersecurity operations.

For security teams working toward ISM compliance, the key is building the right technology foundation — centralized logging, real-time event correlation, high-fidelity alerting, and dashboards that give both analysts and executives the visibility they need.

We've broken down what the ISM covers, how its principles map to operational controls, and what to look for in a SIEM solution that supports compliance.

👉 Read the full blog: https://graylog.info/3RG7xYb

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