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Joined April 2023
ARKEN TOP 40 1. Virtual CISO-In-A-Box 2. Report Generation 3. Audit Preparation for Questionnaire Management 4. User-Friendly Dashboard for SIEM 5. Network Discovery 6. IDP – Intrusion Detection Prevention 7. Customizable Cyber Awareness Training Videos = No More Corny Phishing Emails 8. NIST, CJIS, and Regulatory Compliance 9. Policies and Procedures Development 10. Anti-Virus 11. Global Traffic Mapping and Pattern Analysis 12. Automatic Device and Processes Inventory 13. Fully Scalable and Customizable Cybersecurity 14. Managed Monitoring 15. On Premise vs Cloud Storage to Reduce Misconfiguration Errors 16. Avoid Feeding the LLM’s of AI – Reduce Plagiarism Risk 17. Endpoint Management 18. Controls and Network Hardening 19. NON-Cloud Based VPN 20. IRP – Incident Response Protocols 21. Virtual Machine Monitoring 22. Docker Monitoring 23. Neural Network Algorithms for Illegal Activity Detection 24. Automatic Known-Malware Filtering 25. Automatic Ad Filtering = Faster Network Speed 26. Email Monitoring for Malicious Links 27. DNS Pinning to Avoid DNS Outage Delays 28. Low-Impact Network Scans = Minimal Network Slowdowns 29. Information Security Policy Management 30. Malicious Behavior Detection and Management 31. Minimal False-Positives 32. Device Management 33. USB Detection and Management 34. Chain of Custody 35. DNS Configuration 36. Identity Management 37. 2FA – Multi-Factor Authentication 38. Privileged Access Management 39. 24/7 Network Monitoring 40. Behavioral Analysis
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Start with a security policy. Build from there. ARKEN includes a default NIST policy that organizations can modify to fit their own culture and requirements. Controls can then be monitored and enforced manually or automatically. #NIST #Compliance #ARKEN
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Turn security policy into action. ARKEN implements information security policies, standards, and controls throughout the IT environment and user base—helping organizations move from written policy to measurable enforcement. #InfoSec #Cybersecurity #ARKEN
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Security isn't only about technology. It's about behavior. ARKEN uses Neural Networks to track user and network activity, classify activity, identify potentially detrimental traffic, and invoke appropriate incident response actions. #Cybersecurity #ARKEN
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What changed on your devices? ARKEN can detect hardware and software changes and help prevent unauthorized hardware or software from executing. Know your baseline. Know when it changes. #Cybersecurity #EndpointSecurity #ARKEN
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Unauthorized USB devices can create unnecessary risk. ARKEN can help organizations control USB device usage by preventing unauthorized devices from being used or allowing only approved devices. Security starts with control. #EndpointSecurity #InfoSec #ARKEN
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Your endpoints need more than antivirus. ARKEN provides computing device controls across Mac, Windows, and Linux systems, helping organizations establish software and hardware baselines and detect unauthorized changes. #EndpointSecurity #Cybersecurity #ARKEN
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Incident response works better when everyone knows the next step. ARKEN's Incident Response Procedures use checklist-based workflows combining automated and manual activities to help security teams mitigate information security events quickly and accurately. #IncidentResponse #Cybersecurity #ARKEN
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Don't just detect unwanted traffic. Control it. ARKEN Network Traffic Filtering enables IP address restrictions and DNS filtering at the edge and within Class C network subnets with controls that can be tailored by user, group, or device purpose. #CyberDefense #NetworkSecurity #ARKEN
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See where your network is connecting. ARKEN Network Traffic Mapping provides a visual view of external computing devices being accessed from within your environment helping security teams understand where traffic is going. #NetworkSecurity #InfoSec #ARKEN
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Know what's on your network. ARKEN's Positive Inventory automatically discovers operational devices and provides identification scans while integrating with Active Directory and/or LDAP. Visibility is the foundation of security. #Cybersecurity #NetworkSecurity #ARKEN
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When an incident hits, panic shouldn't be the plan. ARKEN provides automated and manual tools designed to help organizations rapidly identify, respond to, mitigate, and document cybersecurity incidents. #IncidentResponse #Cybersecurity #ARKEN
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Hosea 10:12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. buff.ly/zRk8idg
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One Platform. All Controls. Cybersecurity shouldn't require a maze of disconnected tools and resources. ARKEN brings security controls, IT administration, incident response, monitoring, and reporting together through one user-friendly platform. #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #ARKEN
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Compliance Should Create Confidence At the end of the day, compliance is about more than meeting a requirement. It is about creating confidence. Confidence that your organization knows what devices are operating within its environment. Confidence that access is being appropriately controlled. Confidence that security policies are being enforced. Confidence that suspicious activity will be identified. Confidence that your team knows what to do when an incident occurs. Confidence that you can demonstrate what happened when someone asks. CJIS provides organizations handling Criminal Justice Information with a framework for establishing many of these protections. NIST provides additional guidance for building structured, risk based cybersecurity programs. The technology supporting those frameworks should make compliance more manageable, not more complicated. ARKEN was built around the idea that security policy, IT administration, monitoring, incident response, device control, and reporting should work together. Because compliance should not leave an organization with a stack of paperwork and a false sense of security. It should leave the organization with something much more valuable. Confidence in its ability to protect the information it has been entrusted with. That is the real measure of a mature cybersecurity program. #CJISCompliance #CyberSecurity
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25 years later, we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001. We honor the first responders who ran toward danger, the military members who answered the call, the families who lost loved ones, and every American whose life was changed that day. We remember the courage, unity, service, and sacrifice that followed. We Remember. We Honor. We Never Forget. #NeverForget #September11 #911Remembrance #USA
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The Goal Is Not More Security. It Is Better Security. Organizations are constantly being told they need more cybersecurity. More tools. More monitoring. More alerts. More policies. More assessments. But more does not automatically mean better. An organization can have dozens of security products and still lack basic visibility into its environment. It can have extensive policies and still struggle with enforcement. It can generate thousands of alerts and still miss important incidents. The objective should be better security, not simply more security. Better security means understanding the environment, applying appropriate controls, reducing unnecessary complexity, responding effectively to incidents, and maintaining accountability. That is the philosophy behind ARKEN's approach to bringing information security controls and IT administration together. The question organizations should ask when evaluating cybersecurity investments is not simply, "What else can we add?" It should be: "How can we make the security program we already have more effective?" That question leads to better conversations, better investments, and ultimately stronger security. #CyberSecurity #CJISCompliance
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Why Security Posture Reports Matter to Leadership Cybersecurity teams often understand the technical details of their environment extremely well. Leadership needs something different. They need to understand the organization's current level of readiness, where significant risks exist, whether security controls are operating effectively, and where resources should be directed. That is why security posture reporting is so important. A useful security posture report should help decision makers understand the current state of the organization without requiring them to interpret thousands of technical events. ARKEN's reporting capabilities provide point in time information covering areas such as operational devices, alerts, security activities, and information security readiness. That information can help organizations communicate security conditions to leadership, customers, vendors, auditors, and other stakeholders. Good cybersecurity requires technical expertise. Good cybersecurity leadership requires translating that expertise into information that supports decisions. Security posture reporting helps bridge that gap. Visit OURweb.io to learn more about ARKEN and OURweb's approach to information security management. #CyberLeadership #CJIS
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Security Automation Should Reduce Work, Not Accountability Automation has become a major part of modern cybersecurity. That is a good thing. But automation should never become an excuse to lose accountability. Organizations need to understand what their automated controls are doing, why those actions are occurring, and how those activities are documented. CJIS environments require both effective security controls and accountability around those controls. Automation should therefore be designed to support those objectives rather than operate as an invisible process that security teams cannot explain. ARKEN combines automated and manual activities within its security platform. Automated controls can support incident response, device management, monitoring, and policy enforcement while organizations retain visibility into what actions are occurring. The goal of automation should be straightforward. Reduce repetitive work. Increase consistency. Improve response time. Maintain accountability. When those four objectives are achieved together, automation becomes an operational advantage rather than another source of complexity. #SecurityAutomation #CJISCompliance
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The Best Time to Find a Security Gap Is Before an Auditor Does An audit finding is often the final symptom of a problem that existed long before the auditor arrived. Perhaps a device was never properly inventoried. Maybe access permissions were not reviewed consistently. Perhaps an unauthorized configuration change went unnoticed. Or an incident response procedure existed but was never tested operationally. The audit did not create the problem. It revealed it. Organizations that continuously monitor and enforce their security controls have a significant advantage because they are more likely to identify these gaps internally. This is one of the reasons continuous security posture management matters. ARKEN provides visibility into operational devices, security events, policy controls, network activity, and reporting so organizations can identify areas requiring attention before they become surprises during an assessment. The objective should not be to make auditors less observant. It should be to make your organization more observant. The strongest compliance programs find their own problems first. #AuditReadiness #CJIS
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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13 buff.ly/JLg6BQ4
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