CVE-2020-1982

CVE-2020-1982 is a PAN-OS TLS 1.0 usage issue affecting PAN-OS 8.x (before 8.1.15), 9.0.x (before 9.0.9), and 9.1.x (before 9.1.3). The vulnerability involves certain PAN-OS to cloud-delivered services communications (Cortex Data Lake, Customer Support Portal, Prisma Access) using TLS 1.0. The re...

Serverless ETLs? Easy Data Lake Transformations using AWS Athena

In a data lake raw data is added with little or no processing, allowing you to query it straight away. This gives you a great way to learn about your data - whether it represents a quick win or a fast fall. However, there are two disadvantages: performance and costs. If, for example you added CSV...

XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...

Why XDR Is A Big Deal, and Is Different from SIEM and Platforms

In Jon Clay’s post, he does a great job of explaining the evolution from EDR to XDR. In short, he explained that Endpoint Detection and Response EDR is great, but that having sources of information beyond endpoint is better. The ‘X’ in XDR is essentially ‘many’ or whatever we can add to provide a...

How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs

Data is the lifeblood of digital businesses, and a key competitive advantage. The question is: how can you store your data cost-efficiently, access it quickly, while abiding by privacy laws? At Imperva, we wanted to store our data for long-term access. Databases would’ve cost too much in disk and...

Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community. Kaspersky launch...

Microsoft Chooses Ubuntu Linux for their Cloud-based Azure HDInsight Big Data Solution

Earlier this month, Microsoft surprised us all with the announcement that they built a Linux kernel-based operating system, Azure Cloud Switch ACS, for developing software products for Network Devices. Now, Microsoft just announced that they have selected Ubuntu as the operating system for their...