Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!

Wizards is a global ideation program that allows Akamai employees to submit their innovative ideas and contribute to the business transformation of Akamai. The program has been running for eight years and has received more than 5000 idea submissions. We are proud that Akamai products like Page...

The Pitfalls of DIY Security for Your AWS RDS Databases

AWS RDS enables easy DIY database provisioning The trend toward using Database as a Service DBaaS is unmistakable. Organizations are leveraging DBaaS flexibility to bring new products and services to market faster, or to save time and money by reducing the cost and complexity of their database...

Can security and compliance for managed database services be simple?

Actual Tech Media recently released a new entry in its Gorilla Guide series for IT professionals, focused on simplifying security and compliance for Database as a Service DBaaS. The Gorilla Guide To® Securing Database as a Service DBaaS features Imperva Cloud Data Security as a solution to help...

Top Cloud Security Challenges for 2021

Hear from Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of Cloud Research at Trend Micro, on the top cloud security challenges that will be faced in 2021...

Identity governance: The power of “Why not?”

Innovation requires the courage to take risks and the leadership skills to show others that risks are worth taking. That’s why I love working with people like Joe Dadzie, a partner group program manager in identity governance. Joe has a long history of championing disruptive technology...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at Qualys Securit...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off Qualys Security Conference with an assessment of current security challenges and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we must rethink security,” Courtot sa...

ctfs-1

This repository contains notes and code on past CTF Capture The Flag challenges, with a focus on web, crypto, and realistic challenges. The repository is organized into several sections, each covering a different type of challenge. The web section includes write-ups on various web-based challenge...

Simplify compliance and manage risk with Microsoft Compliance Manager

The cost of non-compliance is more than twice that of compliance costs. Non-compliance with the ever-increasing and changing regulatory requirements can have a significant impact on your organizations brand, reputation, and revenue. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and Globalscape,...

Simplify compliance and manage risk with Microsoft Compliance Manager

The cost of non-compliance is more than twice that of compliance costs. Non-compliance with the ever-increasing and changing regulatory requirements can have a significant impact on your organizations brand, reputation, and revenue. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute and Globalscape,...

h1-ctf: h1-ctf : 12 days of hack holiday writeup

Summary This was a real fun CTF and I really enjoyed solving the challenges. Great job on creating the challenges. This is my writeup for the "12 Days of Hacky Holidays CTF". I hope you enjoy reading it, and I hope others reading it will pick up a trick or two. Flags: This is all the flags found...

Happy 11th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Today marks the 11th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity! Thank you, Dear Readers, for your continued encouragement and support! With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. And its perhaps fitting that this w...

h1-ctf: Hacky Holidays CTF Writeup

Intro: 12 days of challenges - some more challenging than others! This holiday CTF had all 12 challenges hosted on the website https://hackyholidays.h1ctf.com/ F1129112 Challenge 1: I started by significantly overthinking all of the early challenges in this competition. When this CTF started the...

h1-ctf: Invading Grinch Network and Saving Christmas

How we saved Christmas As usual with H1 CTF challenges we are provided with a target URL. In our case it is the following: https://hackyholidays.h1ctf.com/ We started by visiting the URL and see what is going on. All we could see is a page with an image with a warning message. F1125722 We quickly...

h1-ctf: Solution for hackyholiday

Summary: Since there is a reward for the first 10 submissions, I'll start by providing the flags: flag48104912-28b0-494a-9995-a203d1e261e7 flagb7ebcb75-9100-4f91-8454-cfb9574459f7 flagb705fb11-fb55-442f-847f-0931be82ed9a flag972e7072-b1b6-4bf7-b825-a912d3fd38d6...

h1-ctf: ctf walkthrough

Hi, finally managed to solve all challenges, this was my first h1ctf, some challenges were pretty nice, some others had some frustrating guessing parts, but overall it was fun. Here goes day1 to day12 walkthroughs: Day 1 we have only one asset in scope hackyholidays.h1ctf.com the main page at...

My-CTF-Web-Challenges

This is a collection of CTF Capture The Flag web challenges created by orange. The repository contains source code, write-ups, and idea explanations for various challenges. The challenges are categorized by year, with challenges from HITCON 2018, 2019, and 2020, as well as other CTF events. The...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

The Remote-Work Transition Shifts Demand for Cyber Skills

The mass migration to remote working has forced chief information security officers to rethink what “secure” means and to re-prioritize the skillsets needed within their information-security teams. This creates challenges for companies — but also creates wide-open opportunities for those willing ...

Congrats to the winners of the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF

Thank you all that participated in the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF! The four day CTF was well received by the community, with 874 teams and 1903 users registered! We’ve included the high-level stats and the competition winners below. If you played the CTF and want to let the Metasploit...