What I'm Reading 4/29/2020 - Coming Soon - A Coronavirus Vaccine?

BBC - Coronavirus: Boeing to cut 15,000 jobs in 'body blow' -

Boeing's chief executive Dave Calhoun said in a memo to staff that the pandemic is "delivering a body blow to our business" and demand for commercial airline travel "has fallen off a cliff".

He warned: "The aviation industry will take years to return to the levels of traffic we saw just a few months ago."

While 10% of jobs will be cut across the company, Boeing admitted that reductions would be steeper in some departments, such as its commercial airlines business.

Fifth Domain - DHS’ cyber agency will now serve as a cybersecurity “marketplace” -

 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was formally designated as a storefront for cybersecurity, the Office of Management and Budget announced April 27, allowing it to offer cyber services to other federal agencies.

CISA, a component inside the Department of Homeland Security charged with securing critical infrastructure and federal networks, was designated as the federal government’s first “Quality Service Management Office." Under that label, the agency will provide cybersecurity services for Security Operations Center standardization, vulnerability management standardization and DNS resolver services.

 CNN - Potential coronavirus vaccine being tested in Germany could 'supply millions' by end of year -

A German company working with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has begun human trials of a potential Covid-19 vaccine that could supply millions by the end of the year, according to the two firms.

Pfizer says it will begin testing the experimental vaccine in the United States as early as next week, and says a vaccine could be ready for emergency use in the fall, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

 NBC - Oxford University scientists say coronavirus vaccine could be ready by year’s end -

The faster timetable, they say, is because their vaccine has been in development for decades in an effort to stop other coronaviruses. Now it’s been adjusted for COVID-19 and tested on six monkeys, who did not get sick after exposure to the virus.

 Security Boulevard - A Compare-and-Contrast Between Next-Gen SIEM and SOAR -

 any debate of SOAR versus NG SIEM is a relative one. NG SIEM platforms that integrate SOAR capabilities because of the necessity to support SIEM functions will not incorporate all of the capabilities of a dedicated SOAR platform. By virtue of adding playbooks and automated response to a NG SIEM does not in and of itself make it better or more effective at automated response and orchestration offered by a dedicated SOAR solution.

Therefore  the question doesn’t boil down to whether one can be done better than the other, rather, can your security operations program function effectively without all of the capabilities offered by a dedicated SOAR platform versus adopting a NG SIEM solution with a few of the automations offered by SOAR?