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Behind the scenes of business email compromise: Using cross-domain threat data to disrupt a large BEC campaign
Microsoft 365 Defender researchers recently uncovered and disrupted a large-scale business email compromise BEC infrastructure hosted in multiple web services. Attackers used this cloud-based infrastructure to compromise mailboxes via phishing and add forwarding rules, enabling these attackers to...
Automated remediation level 1: Lock down fundamentals
Non-calamitous conclusions When teams work in silos, they often can have different interpretations of the same data. There’s no way to leverage the real benefits of automated remediation if this is your reality. Ensuring visibility across teams is a critical component in a shared data set where...
Nebula - Cloud C2 Framework, Which At The Moment Offers Reconnaissance, Enumeration, Exploitation, Post Exploitation On AWS
Nebula is a Cloud and hopefully DevOps Penetration Testing framework. It is build with modules for each provider and each functionality. As of April 2021, it only covers AWS, but is currently an ongoing project and hopefully will continue to grow to test GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, or...
IBM Spectrum Scale Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-38676)
IBM Spectrum Scale is a scalable data and file management solution from IBM USA based on IBM GPFS, an enterprise file management system optimized for petabyte-scale storage management. The product supports helping clients reduce storage costs while improving security and management efficiency in...
Creating coefficiency: DevOps, Security, and Compliance
Secure IaC Infrastructure-as-code IaC is a powerful partnership accelerator. As businesses and organizations scale into the cloud to realize its full production-enablement potential, security often struggles to keep up. The ultimate goal on the security horizon is, of course, to prevent risks and...
5 #TrendTips For Better File Storage Security
Here are 5 TrendTips to secure valuable files and objects stored in the cloud via services like Amazon S3...
5 questions to answer before spending big on cloud security
Do your tool diligence Convincing people to sign off on big cloud security spends is, most assuredly, a never-ending process. Because every so often be it in 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, your security organization will have to pitch to the check-writers all over again. Of course, we all know it’s...
This Week in Security News - May 28, 2021
Nearly 50,000 IPs Compromised in Worm-like TeamTNT Attack and Misconfigurations are the Biggest Threat to Cloud Security...
Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 4—navigating current threats
In part three of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored what it takes for security leaders to shift from looking at their mission as purely defending against technical attacks, to one that focuses on protecting valuable business assets, data, and...
Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 4—navigating current threats
In part three of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored what it takes for security leaders to shift from looking at their mission as purely defending against technical attacks, to one that focuses on protecting valuable business assets, data, and...
Reducing Risk With Identity Access Management (IAM)
A cloudy picture of identity and access As your supply chain grows, so does your attack surface. As business scales up and cloud providers release new services and resources to support, it becomes exponentially more challenging for security teams to manage access. With this growth, an intrinsic —...
New 451 Research report analyzes Wiz and the cloud security market
The report breaks down the current state of the cloud security market and provides an analysis of Wiz’s product strategy, technology, competitors, and more. It’s essential reading for anyone looking for an objective third-party perspective on Wiz and the rapidly developing cloud security market...
Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021
I am thrilled to share that Forrester Research has named Microsoft Cloud App Security as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021. Additionally, Microsoft received the highest score in the strategy category. People have increasingly used cloud apps to stay productive and...
Container Security First Steps: Image and Registry Scanning
Learn to secure your containers with image and registry scanning. This article explores key container vulnerabilities, and how to guard against them with cloud security tools like policy-based deployment control...
How ViacomCBS Digital delivers uninterrupted content streaming to millions of fans without compromising security: Lessons for enterprise CISOs
Each day, ViacomCBS Digital sees a growing surge in digital content demand—from MTV and Comedy Central to CBS Sports, rushing across its Paramount+ formerly CBS All Access streaming platform. Delivering digital content to millions of users on a daily basis doesn’t happen on its own—it makes it to...
AWS CloudShell Terminal Escape Injection / Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
The javascript terminal emulator used by AWS CloudShell handles certain terminal escape codes incorrectly. This can lead to remote code execution if attacker controlled data is displayed in a CloudShell instance. Terminal escape injection in AWS CloudShell The javascript terminal emulator used by...
VMware Releases Security Update
VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VMware vRealize Business for Cloud. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0007 and apply th...
4 DevOps Challenges to Cloud Security and Compliance—and How IaC Can Help
To react or to prevent? The term “cure” is generally a positive one. However, in cloud security, it assumes a reactive position to some vulnerability or breach that’s already taken place. When it comes down to it, DevOps and Security teams—we all hope—are working together toward a culture of...
The Future is Friction-Free: Drive Innovation With DevOps + Security
Going from a centralized security group that dictates a “command and control” approach to cloud security toward a model of “trust but verify,” is at the core of the modern shift toward security-practice democratization. Organizational practices behind legacy, centralized data centers are being...