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onSecurity – Blue Team Con

October 21, 2022 By Josh Eklow

Episode 8: Blue Team Con

In cybersecurity, the importance of teamwork, collaboration, skill sharing, and peer review cannot be overstated. When it comes to cyber defense, blue teams are in competition against the criminal elite and cyber attackers worldwide, but draw strength from working and communicating with each other. Cybersecurity conventions are increasingly popular places for the industry’s most meaningful discourse.

On our eighth episode, Frank McGovern, Cybersecurity Architect at StoneX, joins onSecurity to discuss the gap he saw in the cybersecurity convention scene and his work to organize Blue Team Con along with our host, BTC co-founder and onShore Security CEO Stel Valavanis.

onSecurity – Zero Trust

October 7, 2022 By Josh Eklow

Episode 7: Zero Trust

onShore Security’s podcast, onSecurity, explores a variety of topics in the cybersecurity field. Our seventh episode focuses on practicing the zero-trust philosophy to harden cybersecurity targets. As cyber operations at the Enterprise level expand to defend against cyberattacks, hackers seek easier targets among enterprises.

Chase Cunningham joins onSecurity to talk about his effort to raise the maturity level of cybersecurity of targeted companies and how organizations are adopting the use of a zero-trust strategy at every level.

onShore Security Named to MSSP Alert’s Top 250 MSSPs List for 2022

September 30, 2022 By Josh Eklow

MSSP Alert, a CyberRisk Alliance resource, has named onShore Security to the Top 250 MSSPs list for 2022 (http://www.msspalert.com/top250).

The list and research identify and honor the top MSSPs (managed security service providers) worldwide. The rankings are based on MSSP Alert’s 2022 readership survey combined with the site’s editorial coverage of MSSP, MDR and MSP security providers. The sixth-annual list and research track the MSSP market’s ongoing growth and evolution.

“To protect our clients and their data from the constant barrage of new cybersecurity threats, our organization strives to stay ahead of bad actors and to be prepared for future regulatory compliance. We’re very happy that our success in doing what we do best has been covered on MSSP Alert’s list again,” said Stel Valavanis, CEO of onShore Security.

“MSSP Alert congratulates onShore Security on this year’s honor,” said Joe Panettieri, editorial director of MSSP Alert. “The MSSP Alert readership and Top 250 honorees continue to outpace the cybersecurity market worldwide.”

Highlights from the associated MSSP Alert research for 2022 include:

MSSP Revenue Growth & Financial Performance: MSSP honorees, on average, expect to generate $24 million in revenue for 2022, up 26% from 2021. The growth rate is roughly double the market average.

Geography: Honorees are headquartered in 30 different countries.

Profits: 90% of MSSPs surveyed expect to be profitable for fiscal year 2022, a five-point improvement from 2021.

Security Operations Centers: 69% have in-house SOCs, 19% are hybrid, 8% completely outsource their SOCs, and 4% are reevaluating their SOC strategies.

Cyberattack Trends: The most frequent attacks targeting MSSP customers in 2022 include phishing (97%), vulnerability exploits (93%) and ransomware (91%).

Cybersecurity Solutions: In a continued sign of market fragmentation, MSSP survey participants mentioned 140 different hardware, software, cloud, distribution and services vendors that assist their cybersecurity efforts.

Key Managed Security Services Offered: MSSPs and MSPs increasingly seek out partners to deliver MDR (managed detection and response), XDR (eXtended Detection and Response), Incident Response and other key services.

Find the online list and associated report here: http://www.msspalert.com/top250.

onShore Security’s inclusion in the list follows several 2022 highlights for onShore Security. Earlier this year, onShore launched a new vulnerability management service and also announced the integration of new machine learning technology into the security stack. News of new partnerships has also been frequent, as onShore partnered with Palo Alto to be listed in their MSSP directory and onShore Security CEO Stel Valavanis joined the cybersecurity committee of the Public Directors Association. onShore also announced the release of their podcast, onSecurity, which continues its first season this month.

About onShore Security

Founded in 1991, onShore Security is one of only a handful of managed cybersecurity providers, nationwide, that provide 24/7 real-time monitoring, correlation, and analysis of organization-wide, full-telemetry network data. onShore Security offerings fall into three groups: Panoptic Cyberdefense^® SOC, Managed Security Solutions, and Cybersecurity Leadership. They collect an extensive range of telemetry, including logs from your systems, IDS on your site, cloud-placed sensors, netflow collectors, firewalls, network devices including encrypted payloads, and correlate this data to achieve an end-to-end security view. onShore Security specializes in banks, handling large regional institutions.

About CyberRisk Alliance

CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) is a business intelligence company serving the high-growth, rapidly evolving cybersecurity community with a diversified portfolio of services that inform, educate, build community, and inspire an efficient marketplace. Our trusted information leverages a unique network of journalists, analysts and influencers, policymakers, and practitioners. CRA’s brands include SC Media, SecurityWeekly, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, InfoSec World, Identiverse, Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum, its research unit CRA Business Intelligence, and the peer-to-peer CISO membership network, Cybersecurity Collaborative. Click here to learn more.

onShore Security sponsors NYC Pinball Championships 2022

August 19, 2022 By Josh Eklow

At onShore Security, we believe that security gives us freedom. We empower organizations to use that freedom to do what they do best. We support some of the biggest names in healthcare, banking, construction, and education. This weekend, we support some of the biggest names in pinball! onShore Security is proud to sponsor the NYC Pinball Championships!

“The New York City Pinball Championships delivers 3 spectacular tournaments, the Open + B Division NYCPC Championship, Classics, and Dahlia Rowan Memorial Women’s Championship.

All tournaments bring world-class competitive pinball excitement to the heart of New York City, and will be broadcast live across the globe for eSports fans everywhere.”

For more information on the event or to watch the live stream of all the action, visit the official website for NYCPC 2022!

onShore Security CEO Stel Valavanis to Join PDA Cybersecurity Committee

August 18, 2022 By Josh Eklow

Cyberleader and CEO of onShore Security Stel Valavanis has been asked to join the cybersecurity committee of the Private Directors Association, a national non-profit business association with more than 3000 members, including executive board members, company owners, officers of family-owned businesses and more. Its mission is to advocate for and teach board formation and governance and to create a network of business owners and leaders. One of the fastest growing areas of the organization is the cybersecurity leadership team, offering education such as webinars and white papers, as well as offering guidance in long-term strategic planning to improve security posture.

This collaboration will further allow Stel and onShore Security to promote cybersecurity awareness and education at the board level, allowing boards to make better informed and forward-looking decisions regarding security. This understanding is vital not only to improve the value and performance of board members but also to make it clear that security affects every part of an organization and that it should be a board-level concern.

As Stel prepares to join the board, he looks forward to adding his experience and vision to those already working to achieve the forward-thinking goals of the organization. Stel says, “I joined PDA as a member, realizing the need for board development from the various boards I sit on where my cybersecurity background has been valuable. But PDA has a bigger vision, one that provides tools and support on many levels. The opportunity to have an impact is tremendous because the gap in cybersecurity is big. The assembled committee is impressive, making my participation even more of an honor.”

Robert Barr, Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity Committee and Enterprise Strategy Director of Oracle, says, “The Private Directors Association National Cybersecurity Committee is better enabling private company boards to create short and long-term value in tomorrow’s economy while strategically mitigating key risks and driving to healthier margins. We are pleased to welcome Stel aboard.”

For more information about The Private Directors Association, please visit their website.