The MOST underrated software that no Cybersecurity professional can live without

Dedicating this article to the unsung hero of cybersecurity !

Anyone working in Cybersecurity will tell you that one of the main thrills of this field is getting to work with all the cool apps and software

Cybersecurity is filled with tools for nearly every type of individual from sophisticated enterprise grade software costing millions of dollars to open source ones that can be downloaded for free

Yet in all those software .. one particular one stands out which has been used by billions of cybersecurity professionals for decades

I really feel it has not been given the respect it deserves

The unsung hero of Cybersecurity is definitely .. Microsoft Excel

Let me give you three very good reasons for why the spreadsheet application has the most utility out of all the cybersecurity tools in the market

REASON 1 — Microsoft Excel was the original SIEM

Security Information and Event Management or SIEM are those solutions which aggregate data across your environment and generate alerts in real time if suspicious patterns are met