NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 Updates: What You Need to Know About The Most Recent Patch Release (5.1.1)

On November 7th, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST issued an update to SP 800-53, a NIST-curated catalog of controls that organizations can implement to effectively manage security and privacy risk. In this blog we’ll cover the new and updated controls within patch release...

Updates to Layered Context Enable Teams to Quickly Understand Which Risk Signals Are Most Pressing

Layered Context introduced a consolidated view of all security risks insightCloudSec collects from the various layers of a cloud environment. This enabled our customers to go from visibility into individual security risks on a resource, to understanding all of the risks that impacted that resourc...

Rapid7 Introduces AI-driven Cloud Anomaly Detection

It’s that time of year again! AWS Re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual mega-conference will soon kick off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be a ton of new cloud security innovations unveiled throughout the week. From a Rapid7 perspective, we’re launching an exciting new capability - Cloud...

Goblob - A Fast Enumeration Tool For Publicly Exposed Azure Storage Blobs

Goblob is a lightweight and fast enumeration tool designed to aid in the discovery of sensitive information exposed publicy in Azure blobs, which can be useful for various research purposes such as vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and reconnaissance. Warning. Goblob will issue...

USN-6441-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ross Lagerwall discovered that the Xen netback backend driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain unusual packets from a paravirtualized network frontend, leading to a buffer overflow. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash or...

Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attacks Attempting to Breach Cloud via SQL Server Instance

Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. "The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target's environment," security researchers...

Apache Pulsar Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Apache Pulsar is the United States Apache Apache Foundation for cloud environments, set of messages, storage, lightweight functional computing as one of the distributed message flow platform. The software supports multi-tenant, persistent storage, multi-machine room cross-region data replication,...

AWS Security Pillar: A Well-Architected Cloud Environment

Explore the Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and be guided through the fundamental security controls that should be addressed when designing, transitioning to, and operating in a cloud environment...

Uncover and Remediate Toxic Combinations with Attack Path Analysis

Particularly at enterprise scale, it’s not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of resources running across your cloud environments at any given time. Of course, these resources aren’t running independently. In modern environments, these resources are all interconnected and in many cases...

Accelerate compliance with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Increasing complex compliance requirements is placing a heavy burden on security leaders. To better support organizations' pursuit of FedRAMP High Compliance, AWS launched the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS. We conducted a thorough evaluation of the solution and shared our findings in the new LZ...

K54252492: Side-channel processor vulnerability CVE-2018-3693

Security Advisory Description Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a speculative buffer overflow and side-channel analysis. CVE-2018-3693 also known as Spectre ...

Aligning to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices With InsightCloudSec

Written by Ryan Blanchard and James Alaniz When an organization is moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud or expanding with net-new investment, one of the hardest tasks for the security team is to identify and establish the proper security policies and controls to keep their cloud environmen...

Apache Pulsar Trust Management Issue Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-83591)

Apache Pulsar is an Apache Foundation distributed messaging platform for cloud environments that integrates messaging, storage, and lightweight functional computing. The software supports multi-tenancy, persistent storage, multi-room cross-regional data replication, with strong consistency, high...

Adapting existing VM programs to regain control

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The scale, speed and complexity of cloud environments — particularly when you introduce containers and microservices — has made the lives of security professionals immensely harder. While it may seem trite, the reason we keep hearing this refrain is because,...

Wiz rapidly finds and removes risks across the container development lifecycle and entire cloud environment

New Wiz capabilities protect containerized applications by bringing deep cloud context and visibility to quickly identify and prioritize risks across containers, Kubernetes and cloud environments without agents...

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management

Security operations teams are overwhelmed trying to protect their organizations against an onslaught of cyberattacks, including a 92 percent rise in ransomware attacks.1 Too often, existing security tools are siloed or not designed to meet the needs of today’s hybrid cloud environment. The result...

Real-Time Risk Mitigation in Google Cloud Platform

With Google Cloud Next happening this week, there’s been some recent water cooler talk - okay, informal, ad hoc Zoom calls - where discussions about what makes Google Cloud Platform GCP unique when it comes to security. A few specific differences have popped up here and there default data...

Monkey365 - Tool For Security Consultants To Easily Conduct Not Only Microsoft 365, But Also Azure Subscriptions And Azure Active Directory Security Configuration Reviews

Monkey365 is an Open Source security tool that can be used to easily conduct not only Microsoft 365, but also Azure subscriptions and Azure Active Directory security configuration reviews without the significant overhead of learning tool APIs or complex admin panels from the start. To help with...

Qualys Performance Tuning Series – Remove Stale Assets for Best Performance

As organizations transition to the cloud, their cloud environments and assets rapidly grow. Many of the assets within the cloud are ephemeral in nature, they exist for a few minutes, hours or days and then are terminated. These transitory assets pose a unique challenge from an asset and...

Securing Your Move to the Hybrid Cloud

Infosec Insider contributor Rani Osnat is SVP Strategy at Aqua Security The combination of private and public cloud infrastructure, which most organizations are already using, poses unique security challenges. There are many reasons why organizations adopt the public cloud — from enabling rapid...