Our Thinking
Ready for lift off? Explore Ascent’s 2024 cyber predictions.
April 17, 2024 – Managed security is cost effective, but sometimes the range of services offered feels overwhelming. Read on for a right-sized approach.
March 16, 2024 – Microsoft Copilot for Security is at the forefront of a Gen AI-driven revolution in cybersecurity. Here’s what to consider before adopting:
March 26, 2024 – Security teams can improve the economics of their security strategy in two ways: tool costs and employee time. Platform consolidation addresses both.
March 12, 2024 – Ascent Solutions announced it is a Security Customer Champion award finalist in the Microsoft Security Excellence Awards.
February 6, 2024 – If you had to divide a business into operating layers and prioritize by importance, how would you do it? Cybersecurity strategy must rank which risk is most likely to topple a business’ continuity.
December 19, 2023 – Security Copilot is Microsoft’s generative AI complement to its unified security platform. Here’s how to plan a security-aware implementation.
December 12, 2023 – How should businesses respond to the United States’ AI Executive Order?
December 5, 2023 – Detection engineering calibrates security controls so the SOC team can tackle the right threats the right way.
November 16, 2023 — Ascent Solutions today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview.
October 16, 2023 – Many businesses with operational technology (OT) are vulnerable to single-point-of-failure attacks. So how should OT security teams protect against IoT vulnerabilities and threat actors?
October 10, 2023 — Today, Ascent Solutions, a leading cybersecurity firm and top Microsoft partner in consulting and managed security services, announced the return of industry executive Pete Fox as President.
September 26, 2023 – New technology equals new attack vectors. We’d recommend using MITRE ATT&CK ATLAS to understand how an adversary can take advantage of the gaps in AI, ML, and LLMs.
September 19, 2023 – Does your organization monitor the clear, dark, and deep web for threat actor activity? Here’s why you should.
September 12, 2023 – Monitoring ransomware victim pages for victims that are within your industry is a proactive action towards prevention.
August 29, 2023 – If you’re the hacked security team, it’s easy to imagine the nightmare situation that ensues and the questions swirling in your CISO’s mind.
August 15, 2023 – Monitoring your external attack surface highlights where and how threat actors test your boundaries.
August 8, 2023 – If a business doesn’t develop its operations with security in mind, implementing it later when the business is “big enough” necessitates breaking existing technology and building it back up with security controls.
July 31, 2023 – Your business’ growth isn’t a turn off to attackers. It ups the ante. The more endpoints, or people, devices, and applications, to exploit, the greater the attack surface.
July 25, 2023 – Shadow IT is often an easier substitute for the outdated or clunky technology the company officially uses. But it’s also easier to breach.
July 18, 2023 – Tech gurus say AI, ML, and LLMs are revolutionary, the most significant disruptors of our time. But in another sense, AI is just the next tool.
July 11, 2023 – Customers regularly ask us “Why Microsoft? Why Microsoft security? Isn’t it more expensive? Does Microsoft truly secure my organization?” Read on for a detailed guide.
June 28, 2023 — Ascent Solutions today announced it has won the Modern Endpoint Management 2023 Microsoft US Partner of the Year Award.
June 20, 2023 – Like many other security professionals, we are fascinated with the possibilities that GPT Large Language Models (LLMs) models create for security teams. But tools, software, and technologies have strengths, weaknesses, costs, benefits, and tradeoffs.
June 6, 2023 – These three Zero Trust architecture examples from a fictional company show how Zero Trust strategy benefits employees across the organization.
May 23, 2023 – AI and other LLMs will never replace human ingenuity, but it can reduce complexity, reduce cost, and make your processes more secure.
May 16, 2023 – Identity and devices are two of the most commonly discussed pillars because they are relevant starting points for nearly every organization.
May 10, 2023 – Behind the scenes of these “chat” interfaces are models, some of which have been highly trained to understand code.
April 28, 2023 — Unless you are a developer, you may never see the script backing an API. And when something is out of sight, it’s too often out of mind.
April 25, 2023 — Ascent Solutions wins Microsoft’s MISA Security Trailblazer Award.
