Exploring an Untethered, Unified Approach to CTEM

We live in a world where traditional Vulnerability Management VM has become infosec’s version of ‘whack-a-mole’— an attempt to tackle risks that constantly shift, multiply, and morph. As organizations push workloads to the cloud, offer customers digital experiences, or as they build AI-enabled...

Our Takeaways From 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP): Insights and Market Evolution

Are your cloud-native applications and multi-cloud infrastructure adequately protected against evolving threats? How confident are you in your current security measures for cloud workloads and containerized environments? The recent Gartner Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection...

Expanding coverage with Linux runtime

Wiz announces its Runtime Sensor for Linux, expanding coverage of threat detection and response for cloud workloads...

Runtime efficiency with Spring (today and tomorrow)

With Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 general availability approaching, we would like to share an overview about several efforts the Spring team is pursuing to allow developers to optimize the runtime efficiency of their applications. We are going to cover the following technologies and u...

I know what you mined last summer: summarizing Summer '23 cryptomining activity

During the summer of 2023, using the Wiz Sensor, Wiz Research detected several different cryptomining campaigns targeting cloud workloads. Learn about these campaigns and their associated IoCs, and how to detect and prevent similar threats...

A Better Way to Secure Servers & Cloud Workloads

Why endpoint security falls short in the complexity of modern IT infrastructure...

GameOver(lay): Easy-to-exploit local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Ubuntu Linux affect 40% of Ubuntu cloud workloads

Wiz Research discovered CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629, two easy-to-exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the OverlayFS module in Ubuntu affecting 40% of Ubuntu cloud workloads...

Python-Based PyLoose Fileless Attack Targets Cloud Workloads for Cryptocurrency Mining

A new fileless attack dubbed PyLoose has been observed striking cloud workloads with the goal of delivering a cryptocurrency miner, new findings from Wiz reveal. "The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique,"...

PyLoose: Python-based fileless malware targets cloud workloads to deliver cryptominer

PyLoose is a newly discovered Python-based fileless malware targeting cloud workloads. Get a breakdown of how the attack unfolds and the steps to mitigate it...

Imperva recognized as a Strong Performer in Forrester Wave: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023

The Forrester Wave evaluated the largest end-to-end providers of data security capabilities across a wide range of functionality to enable controls to enforce data security policies for both structured and unstructured data. In this report, Forrester provides an assessment of the top vendors in t...

Threat hunting with MITRE ATT&CK and Wazuh

Threat hunting is the process of looking for malicious activity and its artifacts in a computer system or network. Threat hunting is carried out intermittently in an environment regardless of whether or not threats have been discovered by automated security solutions. Some threat actors may stay...

Why Is Snapshot Scanning Not Enough?

As new scanning technologies are released, their supposed superiority is touted over the others. The problem is, however, that there is no best scanning technology, all of them have strengths and limitations. If recent claims from several vendors are believed, a “best” scanning method called...

IBM DataPower Gateway Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

IBM DataPower Gateway is a set of security and integration platforms from IBM USA designed specifically for mobile, cloud, application programming interface API, web, service-oriented architecture SOA, B2B, and cloud workloads. The platform protects, integrates, and optimizes access across channe...

PacketStreamer - Distributed Tcpdump For Cloud Native Environments

Deepfence PacketStreamer is a high-performance remote packet capture and collection tool. It is used by Deepfence's ThreatStryker security observability platform to gather network traffic on demand from cloud workloads for forensic analysis. Primary design goals: Stay light, capture and stream, n...

Linux Distribution Coverage Extended Across the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

In 2020, a record 56 new Linux malware families were discovered. We are now seeing this trend continue into the new year with the latest discovery of RedXOR, believed to be formulated by Chinese nation-state actors targeting RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL. With organizations hyper-accelerating thei...

Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

Azure Security Center is a critical tool to secure our multi-cloud workloads in the new world of remote work we find ourselves in today. We are excited to share that Forrester Consulting has just conducted a commissioned Total Economic Impact TEI study on behalf of Microsoft, which involved...

Protect Cloud Workloads with Azure Sentinel

Looking for SIEM and SOAR integration for your Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security investment? Learn how you can get Azure Sentinel capabilities added to Workload Security and how this integration can create a more valuable solution...

Know What’s on Your Network at All Times with Qualys Asset Inventory

Qualys has just launched a global IT asset inventory solution that offers full visibility across even the most hybrid, complex and distributed IT environments, addressing a challenge many security and IT teams face today. When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks,...

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, December update

December was another month of significant development for Microsoft Threat Protection capabilities. As a quick recap, Microsoft Threat Protection is an integrated solution securing the modern workplace across identities, endpoints, user data, cloud apps, and infrastructure. Last month, we shared...

Global IT Asset Inventory: The Foundation for Security and Compliance

Pablo Quiroga, Qualys’ Director of Product Management for IT Asset Management, talks about the new Asset Inventory solution When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks, they encounter many shadows that their legacy enterprise software tools can’t illuminate. These bli...