Cloud-Native Application Protection (CNAPP): What's Behind the Hype?

There's no shortage of acronyms when it comes to security product categories. DAST, EDR, CWPP — it sometimes feels like we're awash in a sea of letters, and that can be a little dizzying. Every once in a while, though, a new term pops up that cuts through the noise, thanks to a combination of...

Deep Dive: Protecting Against Container Threats in the Cloud

Containers are self-contained pods representing complete, portable application environments. They contain everything an application needs to run, including binaries, libraries, configuration files and dependencies Docker and Amazon Elastic, for instance, are two of the more well-known offerings...

Security Turbulence in the Cloud: Survey Says…

Over the past 15 years, the cloud has blown business into a new age of networking, for solid reasons: Small businesses can get online fast, using the same tools as the big companies; large companies can scale up and down to match demand; and organizations of all sizes can quickly react to busines...

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution

MSRC was informed by Wiz, a cloud security vendor, under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD of an issue with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexib...

Zero-Trust For All: A Practical Guide

While “zero-trust architecture” has become a buzz phrase, there’s plenty of confusion as to what it actually is. Is it a concept? A standard? A framework? An actual set of technology platforms? According to security experts, it’s best described as a fresh mindset for approaching cybersecurity...

Rapid7 Named a Visionary in 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing Second Year in a Row

For the second year in a row, Rapid7 has been named a Visionary in the Gartner® 2022 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing. We believe we accomplished this by combining an industry-leading dynamic application security testing DAST solution with container and cloud security, security...

2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: A Quick Look at the Latest Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends

Every year, Rapid7's team of cloud security experts and researchers put together a report to review data from publicly disclosed breaches that occurred over the prior year. The goal of this report is to unearth patterns and trends in cloud-related breaches and persistent exposures, so organizatio...

CISA Releases Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Guidance Documents for Public Comment

CISA has released draft versions of two guidance documents—along with a request for comment RFC—that are a part of the recently launched Secure Cloud Business Applications SCuBA project: Secure Cloud Business Applications SCuBA Technical Reference Architecture TRA Extensible Visibility Reference...

A clearer lens on Zero Trust security strategy: Part 1

Todays world is flooded with definitions and perspectives on Zero Trust, so we are kicking off a blog series to bring clarity to what Zero Trust is and what it means. This first blog will draw on the past, present, and future to bring a clear vision while keeping our feet planted firmly on the...

Finding Attack Paths in Cloud Environments

The mass adoption of cloud infrastructure is fully justified by innumerable advantages. As a result, today, organizations' most sensitive business applications, workloads, and data are in the cloud. Hackers, good and bad, have noticed that trend and effectively evolved their attack techniques to...

Learn the latest cybersecurity techniques at the Microsoft Security Summit

In a world marked by change and uncertainty, innovation is more than a nice-to-have—it’s vital to any healthy organization. But fearless innovation becomes impossible when gaps in security can put those ideas at risk. Many organizations try to increase their defenses by piecing together a patchwo...

cloud.validalistasnegras.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2492799

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

StateRAMP: The “easy button” is now a reality

When StateRAMP was announced last year, I was excited! Finally, they have put together a program that will enforce rigorous cloud security standards, while reducing the burden on state and local governments, which are flexible and eliminate repetitive and costly authorization and accreditation...

3 steps to secure your multicloud and hybrid infrastructure with Azure Arc

As businesses around the world grapple with the growth of an industrialized, organized attacker ecosystem, the need for customers to secure multicloud and hybrid infrastructure and workloads is increasingly urgent. Today, organizations face an attacker ecosystem that is highly economically...

Critical Sophos Security Bug Allows RCE on Firewalls

Cybersecurity stalwart Sophos has plugged a critical vulnerability in its firewall product, which could allow remote code-execution. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, is specifically an authentication-bypass vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin of the Sophos Firewall. It affects versio...

Hardening your cloud environment against LAPSUS$-like threat actors

Learn how to harden your cloud environment against LAPSUS$-like threat actors...

LAPSUS$ – New extortion group involved in the breach against Nvidia, Microsoft, Okta and Samsung

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Lapsus$ DEV-0537 is an extortion threat group that first appeared on December 10, 2021, and has since breached the Brazilian Ministry of Health, NVIDIA, Samsung, Vodafone, Ubisoft, Octa, and Microsoft. Unlike other extortionis...

Cyber Threat Intelligence: Risk Management Strategies

The ever-expanding attack surface of the cloud calls for effective cyber risk management to enable enterprises to innovate and meet business objectives. Discover how to better understand, communicate, and mitigate cyber risk across the enterprise...

Rapid7 Recognized as Top Ranked in Current Offering Category in Forrester Wave™ for Cloud Workload Security

The widespread growth in cloud adoption in recent years has given businesses across all industries the ability to transform and scale in ways never before possible. But the speed of those changes, combined with the increased volume and complexity of resources in cloud environments, often forces...

Misconfigured Firebase Databases Exposing Data in Mobile Apps

Thousands of mobile apps – some of which have been downloaded tens of millions of times – are exposing sensitive data from open cloud-based databases due to misconfigured cloud implementations, new research from Check Point has found. Check Point Research CPR found that in three months’ time, 2,1...