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There are two critical issues that all Splunk users need to be aware of around the use of timestamps in Splunk, one of which is highly time sensitive (see bottom of this post for info on how to fix the issue). Beginning on January 1, 2020, Splunk will no longer correctly identify timestamps ...

You’ve probably heard of the myth of Narcissus, the Greek hunter who was known for his extreme beauty… and vanity. Many of the old stories talk about how many suitors’ hearts were broken by Narcissus. But in an ironic twist, Narcissus eventually came to his own doom when he saw his reflection ...

ThreatDay DFW 2019 is coming soon! Set Solutions is teaming up with a few passionate cyber security experts from the FBI, Anomali, Flashpoint, and others to provide a day of cybersecurity education and community building. Whether your priorities are ingesting threat intelligence, building a cloud ...

Brett Wyer's series of posts (here, here, and here) on Endpoint Privilege Management struck a nerve with some of our customers and partners. We received a lot of comments on the series, mostly about how users with administrative access on their desktop or laptop is still a prevalent problem in many ...

Hello and welcome back to my blog series on Endpoint Privilege Management.  This is the third and final installment covering common requirements and the features they map to, what’s involved in deploying and maintaining a solution, and how to work with a vendor to do a POC ...

Hello and welcome to the second of a three-part blog post series covering Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM).  If you’ve stumbled across this and are unfamiliar with the topic, you may want to check out Part I for a high-level overview; otherwise, let’s go ahead and jump right in. How does ...

It’s a bit of a mess. Over the years you've bought a bunch of security tools and platforms to address the threat du jour. You have your AV, your Intrusion Detection System (IDS), your next gen firewall (NGFW), your NAC system, and on and on. But somehow you are still vulnerable, and you know it. ...

Hello and welcome to a new blog post series covering Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) and the challenges (and benefits) related to managing user privileges.  Over the next several weeks, I’ll be covering various aspects of what we at Set Solutions have learned evaluating and deploying EPM ...

In the world of automobiles, hypercars are reserved for only the top one percent of cars and are specifically designed to push the boundaries of performance and technology. But the effectiveness of those characteristics can’t be preserved without the performance of regular maintenance and ...

Have you ever seen one of those old cartoons where the character starts pulling at a loose thread on a blanket or a shirt? It usually ends up with them pulling apart the whole thing, and they are ultimately left with a big mess of string. That big mess is what many businesses are afraid of when ...