auditpolCIS - CIS Benchmark Testing Of Windows SIEM Configuration

CIS Benchmark testing of Windows SIEM configuration This is an application for testing the configuration of Windows Audit Policy settings against the CIS Benchmark recommended settings. A few points: The tested system was Windows Server 2019, and the benchmark used was also Windows Server 2019. T...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Vulnerability Management

2022 began on a solemn note — many organizations across the globe were recovering from the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability. For the InsightVM and Nexpose team, 2022 began with a lot of introspection on how we can add more value and keep meeting our customer needs in the best possible ways. This...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ACS 3.71 enhancement and security update

Updated images are now available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security. The updated image includes bug fixes and feature improvements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Kube-Bench - Checks Whether Kubernetes Is Deployed According To Security Best Practices As Defined In The CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. Tests are configured with YAML files, making this tool easy to update as test specifications evolve. Please Note 1. kube-bench implements the CIS...

Knowing your shared security responsibility in Microsoft Azure and avoiding misconfigurations

Trend Micro is excited to launch new Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity capabilities that will strengthen protection for Azure resources. As with any launch, there is a lot of new information, so we decided to sit down with one of the founders of Conformity, Mike Rahmati. Mike is a technologist a...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, May 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, April 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, March 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, February 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, December 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, November 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, October 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Terraform AWS Secure Baseline - Terraform Module To Set Up Your AWS Account With The Secure Baseline Configuration Based On CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations

Terraform Module Registry A terraform module to set up your AWS account with the reasonably secure configuration baseline. Most configurations are based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations v1.2.0. See Benchmark Compliance to check which items in CIS benchmark are covered. Starting from v0.10.0...

ArmourBird CSF - Container Security Framework

ArmourBird CSF - Container Security Framework is an extensible, modular, API-first framework build for regular security monitoring of docker installations and containers against CIS and other custom security checks. ArmourBird CSF has a client-server architecture and is thus divided into two...

JShielder v2.4 - Hardening Script For Linux Servers/ Secure LAMP-LEMP Deployer/ CIS Benchmark G

JSHielder is an Open Source Bash Script developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application or services. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux...

Best practices for securely using Microsoft 365—the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark now available

This post was cowritten by Jonathan Trull, Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Sean Sweeney, Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Were excited to announce the availability of the Center for Internet Securitys CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmarkdevelope...

Microsoft Windows: MS Security Guide: Enable Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection

If this setting is enabled, SEHOP is enforced. If this setting is disabled or not configured, SEHOP is not enforced for 32-bit processes. C Microsoft Corporation 2015. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright ...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

UPDATE: Prowler 1.3!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler can be found here. This post is about an update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark Tool - Prowler 1.3! What is Prowler? Prowler is a tool for AWS security assessment, auditing and hardening. It follows guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations...