Infonomics-based Model Teaches CISOs how to Assess their Data’s Financial Risk, Invest Properly in Data Security

Here’s what I consider the biggest contradiction in cybersecurity: the most-financially-damaging, reputation-destroying security incidents almost always involves the theft of millions of database records. Yet, data security is one of the smallest line items in a security budget. Consider that tot...

Protecting the New Online Frontiers: Akamai on Watch

At Akamai, security is at the heart of everything we create. After more than two decades on the front lines of the Internet revolution, Akamai continues to pioneer strategies, products, and solutions that keep the world's information safe and secure. We protect you from the data center, beyond th...

Data Security in the Cloud: How to Lock Down the Next-Gen Perimeter

With businesses continuing their digital migrations to cloud services and applications, IT is finding itself wrestling with how to keep companies’ data safe. The challenge? The cloud has created a next-generation, virtual perimeter. Businesses are using infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS, cloud...

Modern Database Security Buys Down More Risks for Enterprises

Pop quiz: how many data records are lost or stolen on an average day? 1 million? 3 million? 6 million? If you answered 6 million, you’re correct, according to the Breach Level Index. According to the Index, 14.7 billion records have been lost or stolen since 2013, or more than 2.2 billion per yea...

3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge

As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...

Software Defined Perimeter - a Modern VPN with Traditional Challenges

Application Servers are implemented as a means of providing services and making resources available to users. However, any server connected to the Internet is inevitably targeted by malicious users using open listening ports. There are millions of these ports on the Internet, which means there is...

CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

In my role, I often meet with CISOs and security architects who are updating their security strategy to meet the challenges of continuously evolving attacker techniques and cloud platforms. A frequent topic is prioritizing security for their highest value assets, both the assets that have the mos...

Infection Monkey v1.6 - An Automated Pentest Tool

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center's resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Monkey Island server. The Infection Monkey i...

FasterXML Jackson-databind Polymorphic Deserialization Multiple Security Vulnerability

Description FasterXML Jackson-databind is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. Successfully exploiting these issues may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass certain security restrictions, perform unauthorized actions or obtain potentially sensitive information. Failed exploi...

Perimeter Defenses are Dead, So Now What?

The castle walls, moat and drawbridge have been overrun. It is obvious to all of us – the use of perimeter defense as the key cyber strategy is dead. InfoSec Insider contributor Pravin Kothari Over time, the internet has added so many new entry points into the enterprise that they are unmanageabl...

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...

Zero Trust Security Architectures - Software Defined Perimeter

By Jano van Deventer and Andrew Terranova This is Part 3 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Jump to Part 5: Akamai's Approach to Zero Trust Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we...

From OSINT to Internal: Gaining Domain Admin from Outside the Perimeter

When I first began working at Coalfire in early 2017, I couldnt wait to get started pentesting professionally for the first time. When I finally got tasked with my first gig, I dove right in. I was tasked to perform an assessment of the external network. After hitting all known servers and web...

Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft is aware of a denial of service vulnerability named "FragmentSmack" CVE-2018-5391 affecting Windows systems. An attacker could send many 8-byte sized IP fragments with random starting offsets, but withhold the last fragment and exploit the worst-case complexity of linked lists in...

Asset Inventory for Network Perimeter: from Declarations to Active Scanning

In the previous post, I shared some of my thoughts about the good Asset Inventory system. Of course, for me as a Security Specialist, it would be great if IT will provide such magical system. But such an ideal situation is rarely possible. So now let's see how to build an Asset Inventory system...

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...

Building Zero Trust networks with Microsoft 365

The traditional perimeter-based network defense is obsolete. Perimeter-based networks operate on the assumption that all systems within a network can be trusted. However, todays increasingly mobile workforce, the migration towards public cloud services, and the adoption of Bring Your Own Device...

Remote access in a software defined world

When I first ventured into technology, I wish someone gave me a heads-up about the bevy of acronyms to remember. It feels like every day a new acronym related to technology is formed. It's hard enough remembering names within my family. During Thanksgiving with a full house, I struggle to remembe...

Your Users Have Left the Building: Now What?

The dramatic growth of mobile devices, the widespread availability of always-on fast wireless networks, and the rapid adoption of cloud applications have transformed the viability of remote working. Employers are increasingly adopting flex schedules, implementing work from home options, and...

Man Climbs Severn Bridge. Your office is twice as easy and half as scary

So you think no one would ever sneak into your business? Think Again. The man who climbed the Severn Bridge and broke into the Big Brother house seems to have method to his madness. Here’s why. When I describe Social Engineering to some I get a common response: “Yeah, but who would ever do that i...