How Vodafone Global Security Director creates an inclusive and secure workplace

Moving to more flexible remote work policies has caused telecommunications giant Vodafone to rethink cybersecurity and the potential friction to users. Instead of relying on physical security controls in the office, the company has embraced a Zero Trust strategy that requires authenticating...

Automating security assessments using Cloud Katana

Today, we are open sourcing Cloud Katana, a cloud-native serverless application built on the top of Azure Functions to assess security controls in the cloud and hybrid cloud environments. We are currently covering only use cases in Azure, but we are working on extending it to other cloud provider...

The Overlooked Security Risks of The Cloud

Cloud networking has done more to change computing as we know it than any other innovation in the last 15 years. It’s enabled small companies to quickly deploy an online presence, large companies to scale as demand ebbs and flows, and in a post-COVID world, it provides the foundation for a remote...

Bugs in Managed DNS Services Cloud Let Attackers Spy On DNS Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new class of vulnerabilities impacting major DNS-as-a-Service DNSaaS providers that could allow attackers to exfiltrate sensitive information from corporate networks. "We found a simple loophole that allowed us to intercept a portion of worldwide dynamic...

Top Black Hat USA Sessions for Qualys Customers

Black Hat USA is known for cutting-edge security research, and this year’s conference is no different. If you’re a Qualys customer, here are some Black Hat sessions we think youll find relevant. Next-Gen DFIR: Mass Exploits & Supplier Compromise An investigation of real “next-gen” digital forensi...

A Cloud Migration Strategy with Security Embedded

Learn how to build a cloud migration strategy that keeps security in mind...

A New Security Paradigm: External Attack Surface Management

Ran Nahmias, Co-founder and CBO, Cyberpion In the past, a web application or online service could be taken at face value by your customers and employees. It was created, developed, and secured by your organization, and every element of the IT infrastructure that supported that service was under...

TeamTNT Campaigns Emphasize Importance of Addressing Cloud Security Gaps

Having covered TeamTNT in several of our blog entries over the past couple of years, we embarked on a research that encompasses the malicious actor group’s campaigns, tools, and techniques in 2020 and early 2021...

Ypsomed mylife App 安全特征问题漏洞

Ypsomed mylife App is an application of Ypsomed AG. To optimize communication between people with diabetes and healthcare professionals, mylife Therapy Management is an easy-to-use, easy-to-share solution for diabetes therapy data. mylife App and mylife Cloud have a security vulnerability that...

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-05120)

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation is an intelligent software platform used to build automation applications in cloud environments from IBM USA. The platform uses pre-integrated automation technologies and low-code tools to design, build, and run automation applications and services on any cloud.A...

Top 10 Cloud security tips

About half of the pen tests we’re asked to do involved cloud services at some point. We’ve even tested a cloud platform on an aeroplane – the irony was not lost on us! There is a multitude of ways to improve the security of your cloud platforms and often those ways are ever-changing or obscured...

The Countdown Has Started -- The Move Toward Zero Trust and MFA

In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of...

Five Tips to Impress at Your CISO Job Interview

Chief Information Security Officers CISOs are in demand and the lack of experienced candidates, coupled with the evolving required skill set, helped make it the highest paying tech job in 2020. With 100% of large corporations Fortune 500, Global 2000 forecast to have a CISO or equivalent position...

Mitigating attacks in serverless environments

Serverless computing has become the fastest-growing segment in the cloud services market. The benefits are clear and significant: cost savings and lower operational overhead, giving development teams full control over code and flexibility in the infrastructure. This also means that, in terms of...

Automated remediation level 3: Governance and hygiene

Mold it, make it, just don’t fake it At a quick glance, it seems like the title of this blog is “government hygiene.” Most likely, that wouldn’t be a particularly exciting read, but we’re hoping you might be engaged enough to gain a few takeaways from this fourth piece in our series on automating...

Top five insights from the 2021 CyberEdge Cyberthreat Defense Report

For the last eight years, the Cyberthreat Defense Report has been helping enterprise security professionals gauge their internal practices and security investments against their peers across multiple countries and industries. The report is based upon data from 1,200 qualified IT security...

Reduce Business Risk By Fixing 3 Critical Endpoint-to-Cloud Security Requirements

Enterprise applications used to live securely in data centers and office employees connected to internal networks using company-managed laptops or desktops. And data was encircled by a walled perimeter to keep everything safe. All that changed in the last 18 months. Businesses and employees had t...

Third party risk management and the cloud

Risk is inevitable with third party vendors that have access to your company and client data. With expanding attack surfaces, dispersed supply chains, and IoT issues on the rise, TPRM third party risk management is becoming a more mission-critical security practice in the cloud. Lets look at...

Automated remediation level 2: Best practices

A low-impact workaround When it comes to automating remediation, the second level we’ll discuss takes a bit of additional planning. This is so that users will see little to no impact in the account fundamentals automation process. This framework aligns with the Center for Internet Security Amazon...

Improve your threat detection and response with Microsoft and Wortell

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. The way of working is changing rapidly. Many workloads are moving to the cloud and the pandemic accelerated organizations to provide infrastructure to aid employees working from...