Kill Cloud Risk: Get Everybody to Stop Fighting Over App Security - Podcast

Brought to you by Uptycs. Underwriters of Threatpost podcasts do not assert any editorial control over content. Applications are cybercriminals’ favorite ways to crack open targeted organizations. Yet no single team or process can assure the rollout of safe cloud applications. From code design to...

The Future of Finserv Security: Cloud Expert and Former CISO Anthony Johnson Weighs In

In today's increasingly mobile, fast-paced world, it's no surprise that financial services finserv organizations have a massive bullseye on their backs. The amount of personal data they access daily makes them an attractive target for those with malicious intent. In fact, the average cost of a da...

Cisco Umbrella Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform from Cisco. Cisco Umbrella Secure Web Gateway has a security vulnerability caused by an insufficient restriction in the file inspection feature, which can be exploited by attackers to bypass the file inspection feature...

Wiz and RegScale: Cloud security compliance management at scale

Learn how to achieve compliance security at scale with Wiz and RegScale, supporting a variety of compliance framework controls...

How Attack Surface Management Preempts Cyberattacks

The wide-ranging adoption of cloud facilities and the subsequent mushrooming of organizations' networks, combined with the recent migration to remote work, had the direct consequence of a massive expansion of organizations' attack surface and led to a growing number of blind spots in connected...

Why Security in Kubernetes Isn't the Same as in Linux: Part 2

Security for Kubernetes might not be quite the same as what you're used to. In our previous article, we covered why security is so important in both Linux on-premises servers and cloud Kubernetes clusters. We also talked about 3 major aspects of Linux server security — processes, network, and fil...

New Argo CD Bug Could Let Hackers Steal Secret Info from Kubernetes Apps

Users of the Argo continuous deployment CD tool for Kubernetes are being urged to push through updates after a zero-day vulnerability was found that could allow an attacker to extract sensitive information such as passwords and API keys. The flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-24348 CVSS score: 7.7, affects...

5 reasons endpoint security agents are not enough

In this post, we discuss five security limitations of endpoint security agents and also explain how adding agentless solutions can improve your cloud environment security...

Behind The Buzzword: Four Ways to Assess Your Zero Trust Security Posture

With just about everything delivered from the cloud these days, employees can now collaborate and access what they need from anywhere and on any device. While this newfound flexibility has changed the way we think about productivity, it has also created new cybersecurity challenges for...

How CISOs are preparing to tackle 2022

Looking back over the last year, the security landscape has continued to experience significant change and escalation. Every day, we see the toll this is taking on organizations of all sizes as they navigate the enduring challenges of the pandemic, the expansion of the digital estate, and the...

How CISOs are preparing to tackle 2022

Looking back over the last year, the security landscape has continued to experience significant change and escalation. Every day, we see the toll this is taking on organizations of all sizes as they navigate the enduring challenges of the pandemic, the expansion of the digital estate, and the...

FACT - A Tool To Collect, Process And Visualise Forensic Data From Clusters Of Machines Running In The Cloud Or On-Premise

FACT is a tool to collect, process and visualise forensic data from clusters of machines running in the cloud or on-premise. Deployment For a basic single-node deployment, we recommend using Docker and Docker Compose. First, read docker-compose.yaml for configuration and requirements. Then, start...

The top cloud security threats to be aware of in 2022

As more organizations move to the cloud, so do attackers. What can you do to better protect your cloud environment in 2022? Wiz Research has compiled the most pressing cloud security threats and how you can protect against them...

Learn about 4 approaches to comprehensive security that help leaders be fearless

The last 18 months have put unprecedented pressure on organizations to speed up their digital transformation as remote and hybrid work continue to become the new normal. Yet even with all the change and uncertainty, having the right security support system in place means your organization can sti...

SEGA’s Sloppy Security Confession: Exposed AWS S3 Bucket Offers Up Steam API Access & More

Gaming giant SEGA Europe recently discovered that its sensitive data was being stored in an unsecured Amazon Web Services AWS S3 bucket during a cloud-security audit, and it’s sharing the story to inspire other organizations to double-check their own systems. Researcher Aaron Phillips with VPN...

Relay races, batons, and techniques: How to improve your cloud security posture

In 2008, the US 4x100m relay team was the favorite to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Not a massive surprise, considering that team included the second fastest athlete in history, Tyson Gay. It was a great shock though when the team blundered on the last exchange, dropping the baton,...

NSA and CISA Release Final Part IV of Guidance on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

CISA has announced the joint National Security Agency NSA and CISA publication of the final of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Part IV: Ensure Integrity of Cloud Infrastructure focuses on platform integrity, microservices infrastructure integrity, launch time...

Stay Ahead of Threats With Cloud Workload Protection

When it comes to cloud-native applications, optimal security requires a modern, integrated, and automated approach that starts in development and extends to runtime protection. Cloud workload protection CWP helps make that goal possible by bringing major structural changes to software development...

Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat

Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat. In this post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Log4Shell: what it is, its impact, and recommendations for security teams...

The secure development lifecycle

Whatever tolerance we had for failure has been turned upside down in the cloud. The consequences have never been greater. So, whats the solution? As made clear in Coalfires latest Cloud Advisory Board CAB Securealities report, smartest path to DevSecOps transformation, nothing is more important t...