PMapper - A Tool For Quickly Evaluating IAM Permissions In AWS

A project to speed up the process of reviewing an AWS account's IAM configuration. Purpose The goal of the AWS IAM auth system is to apply and enforce access controls on actions and resources in AWS. This tool helps identify if the policies in place will accomplish the intents of the account's...

A Quick-Start Introduction to Database Security: An Operational Approach

The recent SingHealth data breach incident exposed around 1.5 million patients’ records. In its aftermath, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore published a set of security measures aimed at improving the protection of Personally Identifiable Information PII data. The recommended security measur...

Repokid - AWS Least Privilege For Distributed, High-Velocity Deployment

Repokid uses Access Advisor provided by Aardvark to remove permissions granting access to unused services from the inline policies of IAM roles in an AWS account. Getting Started Install mkvirtualenv repokid git clone [email protected]:Netflix/repokid.git cd repokid python setup.py develop...

CVE-2017-13095

The P1735 IEEE standard describes flawed methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property IP, as well as the management of access rights for such IP, including modification of a license-deny response to a license grant. The methods are flawed and, in the most egregious cases, enable...

No Apps Left Behind on Your Zero Trust Journey

Complexity kills productivity. When it comes to enabling application access, enterprises should not have to choose between user experience and complex techniques that ensure application security. Traditionally, perimeter security is built on an assumption that whatever is inside the perimeter is...

Assessing Microsoft 365 security solutions using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series, youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blogNew...

GDPR Is Here: Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, protecting these environments is critical for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. GDPR, which went into effect in May, imposes strict requirements on millions of business...

Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself

You're driving a long, dark road on a rainy night. If you're driving 20 miles over the speed limit and you don't step on the brakes when the car in front of you comes to a sudden stop, is it your fault or your car manufacturers fault if you rear-end the car that is in front of you? When we drive,...

Security Bulletin: Security Bypass Vulnerability Addressed in Asset and Service Management (CVE-2014-3084)

Summary IBM Maximo Asset Management allows an authenticated attacker to modify calendar entries that they do not have access to by bypassing security restrictions. Vulnerability Details DESCRIPTION: Customers who have Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry...

Federal Agencies Face an Uphill Battle in Cyber-Preparedness

In the wake of the elimination of the federal cybersecurity czar position, the latest federal cybersecurity preparedness report from the Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Department of Homeland Security DHS shows that U.S. government is nowhere near ready for prime time when it comes to...

CVE-2018-1148

Nessus before 7.1.0 is vulnerable to a session fixation flaw caused by insufficient session management. An authenticated attacker could hijack a user session after a password change by leveraging an existing session ID. The connected sources confirm the affected product (Tenable Nessus), the vuln...

Now that you have a plan, it’s time to start deploying

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series, youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog First...

How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure

A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...

First things first: Envisioning your security deployment

This blog post is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 Security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog...

Microsoft Windows 10: Act as part of the operating system

The Act as part of the operating system policy setting determines whether a process can assume the identity of any user and thereby gain access to the resources that the user is authorized to access. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: win10actaspartofos.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Che...

When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, protecting these environments is critical for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. These public cloud platforms are being used to pow...

How Can Manufacturing Companies Improve Network Access and Security?

The manufacturing industry faces complex challenges other sectors of the economy need not worry about. Manufacturers rely heavily on everything from positive global economic trends to laws that lift certain burdens. And companies involved with manufacturing consistently focus on increased...

Design/Logic Flaw

foreman-debug before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in foreman-debug's logging. An attacker with access to the foreman log file would be able to view passwords, allowing them to access those systems...

HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services provider fixed password generation vulnerability

HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services AWS provider is a program for interacting with AWS supported resources. A security vulnerability exists in the aws/resourceawsiamuserloginprofile.go file in HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 1.12.0 and earlier. A remote attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2018-9057

aws/resourceawsiamuserloginprofile.go in the HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services AWS provider through v1.12.0 has an inappropriate PRNG algorithm and seeding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging an IAM account that was provisioned with a weak password...