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...

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...