Sam Humphries

Information Security Blog Author: Sam Humphries

Sam Humphries

Security Strategist

Samantha has 20 years of experience in cyber security. She has defined strategy for multiple security products and technologies, helped hundreds of organisations of all shapes, sizes, and geographies recover and learn from cyberattacks, and trained anyone who’ll listen on security concepts and solutions. She authors articles for various security publications, and is a regular speaker and volunteer at industry events, including BSides, IPExpo, CyberSecurityX, The Diana Initiative, and Blue Team Village (DEFCON)."

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US, Australia Security Teams are Behind the Times in Gender Pay Equality

January 7, 2021 — Sam Humphries

The Exabeam 2020 Cybersecurity Professionals Salary Skills and Stress survey focused on a variety of key topics affecting[…]

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Escaping Dante’s SOC Inferno: Don’t Leave Me in Limbo

December 17, 2020 — Sam Humphries

Prepare to rejoice, followers of this blog series! We’re very close to making our escape from the nine[…]

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4 Stages of Vulnerability Management: A Process for Risk Mitigation

December 3, 2020 — Sam Humphries

Vulnerability management strategies and tools enable organizations to quickly evaluate and mitigate security vulnerabilities in their IT infrastructure.[…]

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Escaping Dante’s SOC Inferno: Gluttony and the SOC Skills Shortage

November 30, 2020 — Sam Humphries

Gluttony is having a profound effect on our ability to do our jobs, and it’s compounding the problem[…]

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Escaping Dante’s SOC Inferno: Greed and the Gimme Mindset

November 20, 2020 — Sam Humphries

Let’s face it, we live in a mobile-first, always-on, data-centric world today. We walk around now with terabytes of data in our pockets, petabytes of data on our servers, and almost unfathomable amounts of infrastructure available to us in the cloud, assuming our pockets are deep enough.

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Exabeam 2020 Cybersecurity Survey Reveals Job Satisfaction Despite Stress and Opportunities for Change

October 15, 2020 — Sam Humphries

Exabeam’s 2020 Cybersecurity Professionals Salary, Skills and Stress Survey, compiled from a survey of 351 international security professionals, was[…]