The vulnerability of the administration interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload security platform allows a perpetrator to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the administration interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload security platform is related to deficiencies in authentication procedures. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to increase their privileges remotely...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

Critical Auth Bypass Bug Found in VMware Data Center Security Product

A critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance could be exploited to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-21982, the flaw is rated 9.1 out of a maximum of 10 in the CVSS scoring system and affects all versions of the produ...

Critical Bug in VMWare Carbon Black Allows Takeover

A critical security vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance would allow privilege escalation and the ability to take over the administrative rights for the solution. The bug CVE-2021-21982 ranks 9.1 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability-severity scale. The VMware Carbon...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

VMware Carbon Black Ranks Among Top 10 of 100 Cybersecurity Companies by the University of San Diego

We are proud to announce that VMware Carbon Black has been ranked within the top 10 organizations on the University of San Diego Cybersecurity Team’s annual list of the Top 100 Cybersecurity Companies of 2020. The annual list of cybersecurity companies highlights the most influential players in a...

Fighting Back in 2021: 4 Best Practices for Security Teams

“Attacks these days don’t have a natural beginning or ending. For an adversary, every attack is an opportunity to learn something that can then be used against additional organizations.” -- Greg Foss, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware Security Business Unit. Attackers versus defenders will...

Bridge the Gap between Security and IT in Cloud Workload Protection

It often feels as though Security and IT are trying to build the same house from different blueprints. Security works tirelessly to stay ahead of a threat landscape that is moving at warp speed by managing hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, IT tries to strike a precarious balanc...

Announcing the General Availability of Container Security in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Container Security capabilities in the Carbon Black Cloud. Building on our Cloud Workload Protection solution announced at VMworld, our new Container Security offering supports VMware’s Intrinsic Security vision to protect data and applicatio...

Achieve Operational Excellence in Your Cloud Workload

Explore the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS and Azure Well-Architected Framework and examine best practices and design principles for cloud-based security operations, including CI/CD and risk management...

New cloud-native breadth threat protection capabilities in Azure Defender

As the world adapts to working remotely, the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security teams struggle to protect workloads with multiple solutions that are often not well integrated nor comprehensive enough. This results in serious threats avoiding detection, as well as security teams...

Defining Cloud Workload Protection

Organizations are now turning to an increasingly hybrid cloud infrastructure model to support remote workforces, a trend that has accelerated significantly amid the recent global health crisis. This presents a new challenge as cloud environments both private and public require a purpose-built...

VMworld 2020: Delivering Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure

A year ago, we bet big, with a vision to truly disrupt the security industry — and ultimately help more customers stay safe from cyber attacks. The VMware acquisition of Carbon Black created a massive opportunity to leverage infrastructure and control points in new ways to make security intrinsic...

Introducing VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload™

If you know Carbon Black, you know that we helped invent Endpoint Detection and Response EDR and pioneered the field of next-generation anti-virus NGAV and malware protection. If you know VMware, you know we helped invent virtualization and have championed moving core business servers and service...

Lock and Code S1Ep12: Pinpointing identity and access management’s future with Chuck Brooks

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chuck Brooks, cybersecurity evangelist and adjunct professor for Georgetown University’s Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs...

Cloud workload security: Should you worry about it?

Due to the increasing use of the cloud, organizations find themselves dealing with hybrid environments and nebulous workloads to secure. Containerization and cloud-stored data have provided the industry with a new challenge. And while you can try to make the provider of cloud data storage...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...

Microsoft Cloud Security solutions provide comprehensive cross-cloud protection

The infrastructure, data, and apps built and run in the cloud are the foundational building blocks for a modern business. No matter where you are in your cloud journey, you likely utilize every layer of the cloud—from infrastructure as a service IaaS to platform as a service PaaS to software as a...

Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC fields trillions of security signals every day. How do we identify and respond to the right threats? One thing that won’t surprise you: we leverage artificial intelligence AI, machine learning, and automation to narrow the focus. But technology i...

Trend Micro Identified as a Representative Vendor for its Protection Capabilities For Cloud Workloads

We are proud to be included in this year’s Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms report, which included 24 security leaders in Cloud Workload Protection solutions. Trend Micro was identified with 16 out of 21 capabilities listed by Gartner. Trend Micro delivers unique serve...