Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023: Insights, Mitigators and Best Practices

John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report is an annual report that provides organizations with quantifiable information about the financial...

Expanded Coverage and New Attack Path Visualizations Help Security Teams Prioritize Cloud Risk and Understand Blast Radius

Cloud environments differ in a number of ways from more traditional on-prem environments. From the immense scale and compounding complexity to the rate of change, the cloud creates a host of challenges for security teams to navigate and grapple with. By definition, anything running in the cloud h...

Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Akamai’s Perspective on October’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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Transactional Rollback Strategies with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka

Other parts in this blog series Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications In th...

Wallarm Webinar: NIST CSF 2.0, API Security, and CISO Imperatives

Last week, our good friend Raj Umadas, Director of Security at ActBlue, teamed up with our very own Tim Erlin, Head of Product, to talk about the newly proposed NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF. It was a fantastic discussion covering the intent behind this update, the major changes from v1.1 to...

Akamai’s Perspective on September’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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GHSA-Q4PP-J36H-3GQG Minimal `basti` IAM Policy Allows Shell Access

Summary The provided Minimal IAM Policy for bastic connect does not include ssm:SessionDocumentAccessCheck. This results in the ability to get a shell session on the bastion, not just the intended access for Port Forwarding. Details basti connect is designed to "securely connect to your...

CVE-2023-39125

NTSC-CRT 2.2.1 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in loadBMP in bmprw.c because a file's width, height, and BPP are not validated. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is "this main application was not intended to be a well tested program, it's just something to demonstrate it works and fo...

Akamai’s Perspective on August’s Patch Tuesday 2023

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A CEO’s Perspective: Data Transfer Is the Silent Killer

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Part 2: An In-Depth Look at the Latest Vulnerability Threat Landscape (Attackers’ Edition)

The previous blog from this three-part series showcased an overview of the vulnerability threat landscape. To summarize quickly, it illustrated the popular methods of exploiting vulnerabilities and the tactical techniques employed by threat actors, malware, and ransomware groups. Perhaps more...

SUSE CVE-2023-35116

jackson-databind through 2.15.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact via a crafted object that uses cyclic dependencies. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is not a valid vulnerability report, because the steps of constructing a cyclic data structure...

CVE-2023-35116

jackson-databind through 2.15.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact via a crafted object that uses cyclic dependencies. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is not a valid vulnerability report, because the steps of constructing a cyclic data structure...

CVE-2023-35116

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Design/Logic Flaw

DISPUTED An issue found in Webroot SecureAnywhere Endpoint Protection CE 23.1 v.9.0.33.39 and before allows a local attacker to access sensitive information via the EXE installer. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is not a separate vulnerability relative to CVE-2023-29818 and...

KubeStalk - Discovers Kubernetes And Related Infrastructure Based Attack Surface From A Black-Box Perspective

KubeStalk is a tool to discover Kubernetes and related infrastructure based attack surface from a black-box perspective. This tool is a community version of the tool used to probe for unsecured Kubernetes clusters around the internet during Project Resonance - Wave 9. Usage The GIF below...

Security Bulletin: iText.jar in Tom Sawyer Perspective is vulnerable to XML External Entity

Summary iText.jar in Tom Sawyer Perspective is vulnerable to XML External Entity used by IBM Tivoli Network Manager ITNM IP Edition. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2017-9096 DESCRIPTION: iText PDF Library could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an X...

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“Great speakers and very knowledgeable.” “Brilliant.” “Wonderful and very useful.” The first Microsoft Secure on March 28, 2023, was a huge success—as this attendee feedback shows. Our virtual event brought together more than 20,000 security professionals eager to learn security best practices an...