Timing Attack

github.com/pivotal-cf/on-demand-services-sdk is vulnerable to timing attack. This is due to an insecure method of verifying credentials which would allow remote attackers to make multiple authentication request to the server and discover valid credentials by analyzing the server response time and...

Kernel Memory Initialization Vulnerability in Multiple Apple Products (CNVD-2018-22362)

Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices, tvOS is a smart TV operating system, and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. kernel is one of the kernel components. A security vulnerability exists in the Kernel component of several Apple products. The vulnerability can be...

Zero Trust Security Architectures - Akamai's Approach

This is Part 5 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we covered an overview of zero trust architecture...

Time to Eliminate Traditional VPNs

It is time to stop trusting your endpoints implicitly and reduce the complexity and risk associated with traditional VPN access and flat networks. Varied digital ecosystems, cloud migration, and workforce mobility have created a climate where the network perimeter no longer exists. This is eviden...

Threat Identity...The First Line of Defense

Last quarter, we discussed zero trust and identity in regard to remote application access. This focus was primarily looking at enterprise users seeking to gain access to applications on a network where there are no boundaries: The internet. In the concept of zero trust, the internet is considered...

Yin and Yang of the Zero Trust Model

It may seem strange to apply concepts from Chinese philosophy to an IT security model, but representing complex ideas in simple terms can be a powerful tool for understanding and communicating. By viewing zero trust through the lens of Yin and Yang, we see that to be complete, the scope of the...

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 ...

Who is doing what on your network?

Over the past few months, while talking to customers, the topic of Zero Trust Architecture keeps coming up. Seemingly everyone is thinking of implementing the model - which we fully encourage! One of the core components of the principle is the ability to inspect and log all network and system...

Climbing the Ladder: Zero Trust, Single Sign-On, Multiple Applications

It is understood that there is a significant amount of complexity to securing today's enterprise, especially as more services and applications move to the cloud and a Zero Trust security model is employed. We at Akamai are actively engaged in helping enterprises adjust to a Zero Trust security...

Cloud Foundry Silk CNI Plugin Access Control Error Vulnerability

Cloud Foundry CF is the U.S. Cloud Foundry Foundation's set of open source platform-as-a-service PaaS cloud computing platform , which provides container scheduling , continuous delivery and automated service deployment and other functions . Silk CNI plugin is one of the CNI-compatible use of...

Zero Trust and the Slowly Boiled Frog

Disclaimer: No actual frogs were harmed in the writing of the blog post. We wouldn't do that. We like frogs. What is Zero Trust Networking? The Zero Trust security model was proposed by John Kindervag of Forrester Research back in 2010. The concept is that the traditional trust model of "trust, b...

IBM Client Application Access elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03867)

IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes are both products of IBM Corporation in the U.S. IBM Client Application Access is a set of tools for accessing native applications. notes is a set of collaborative office software. iNotes is an IBM Notes-based email client that supports access to e-mail...

IBM Client Application Access and Notes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes are both products of IBM Corporation in the U.S. IBM Client Application Access is a set of tools for accessing local applications.IBM Notes is a set of collaborative office software. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in IBM Client Applicati...

IBM Client Application Access elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03868)

IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes for Windows are both products of IBM Corporation.IBM Notes for Windows is a set of collaborative office software based on the Windows platform.IBM Client Application Access is a set of tools for accessing local applications based on the Windows platform...

IBM Client Application Access elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03876)

IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes for Windows are both products of IBM Corporation.IBM Notes for Windows is a set of collaborative office software based on the Windows platform.IBM Client Application Access is a set of tools for accessing local applications based on the Windows platform...

IBM Client Application Access Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes for Windows are both products of IBM Corporation.IBM Notes for Windows is a set of collaborative office software based on the Windows platform.IBM Client Application Access is a set of tools for accessing local applications based on the Windows platform...

CVE-2018-1411

IBM Notes Diagnostics and IBM Client Application Access (Windows) are affected. A local attacker could craft a command line via shared-memory IPC to execute an arbitrary executable, enabling full system compromise. Root cause: IPC-based command-line handling flaw allows unintended command executi...

CVE-2018-1410

IBM Notes Diagnostics IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes could allow a local user to execute commands on the system. By crafting a command line sent via the shared memory IPC, which could be tricked into executing an executable chosen by the attacker. IBM X-Force ID: 138709...

CVE-2018-1409

IBM Notes Diagnostics IBM Client Application Access and IBM Notes could allow a local user to execute commands on the system. By crafting a command line sent via the shared memory IPC, which could be tricked into executing an executable chosen by the attacker. IBM X-Force ID: 138708...

The days of VPNs are numbered

We have been talking about how it's time to re-evaluate giving full access to the corporate network for some time. In fact, Akamai's Sr. Director of Enterprise Security & Infrastructure Engineering talks about one of his core goals--No VPN--here. Over the last few days, I am sure many teams who a...