CISA warns of cyberespionage by Iranian APT “MuddyWater”

Cybersecurity agencies in the US and UK have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory CSA on MuddyWater, a government-sponsored Iranian advanced persistent threat APT actor. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the US Cyber Command Cyber...

What’s Next in Security from Microsoft

One of the biggest challenges in security today is complexity. Not only is there an ever-growing number of threats, but many organizations are defending their companies with a patchwork of security solutions that don’t work well together. This piecemeal approach is costly, less secure, and hinder...

Here’s REALLY How to Do Zero-Trust Security

Zero-trust is without a doubt the new buzzword of cybersecurity, and a trend that has dominated discussions around the security priorities of both public and private-sector organizations over the past several years. It’s an approach that treats each and every user, device, application and workloa...

Hitachi Energy PCM600 Update Manager

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.7 Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: PCM600 Update Manager Vulnerability: Improper Certificate Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass the certificate validation and install an untrusted software...

Evolving Zero Trust—Lessons learned and emerging trends

Looking back at the last two years, to say that our security strategies have evolved would be an understatement. Organizations around the world made overnight transitions to remote work models in response to a global pandemic, forcing them to reassess attack surface areas as they underwent an...

2022 Planning: Straight Talk on Zero Trust

“Zero trust" is increasingly being heralded as the ultimate solution for organizational cyber safety and resilience — but what does it really mean, and how can you assess if it has a practical place in your organization's cybersecurity strategy for 2022? In this post, we'll answer those questions...

Vault's Google Cloud Secrets Engine Policies With Globs May Provide Additional Privileges in Vault 1.8.0 Onwards

Summary The Google Cloud secrets engine in Vault or Vault Enterprise “Vault” 1.8.0 and above may provide users, under specific conditions, with more privileges than in prior versions. Due to changes in the underlying functionality of the Google Cloud secrets engine, policies that use globs may...

CISA Adds Single-Factor Authentication to the List of Bad Practices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added single-factor authentication to the short list of "exceptionally risky" cybersecurity practices that could expose critical infrastructure as well as government and the private sector entities to devastating cyberattack...

Managing Privileged Access for a Post-COVID Perimeter

For many, 2021 signifies a year of recovery, reflection and reimagining. After the whirlwind year of 2020, we witnessed all aspects and facets of our lives and businesses turn upside down as our communities and economies adapted to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we all know, the...

Zero Trust Should Not Give IT a Bad Name

Maybe you've just found out that your company's IT organization is implementing Zero Trust. Does that mean they don't trust you? "Zero Trust" sure sounds that way. Maybe you've read about it online or heard somebody talk about it in terms that equate Zero Trust with the idea that users and device...

Anyone for Alphabet Soup? ZTNA, SWGs, MFA, and More: Lessons Learned from Fed Day CyberThreats 2021

Last week, we gathered a few of the most prominent leaders and experts from every corner of the federal space to talk about all things cybersecurity and digital transformation. Discussions ranged from the move toward Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA, and effectively managing identities and access...

Zero Trust Network Access Is an Oxymoron

Though Zero Trust is really quite simple and should be viewed as a very strong form of the age-old principle of least privilege, that does not mean that it is the same thing. In fact, one of the most significant differences from what came before is that when it comes to access, Zero Trust is base...

Zero Trust Network Access Is an Oxymoron

Though Zero Trust is really quite simple and should be viewed as a very strong form of the age-old principle of least privilege, that does not mean that it is the same thing. In fact, one of the most significant differences from what came before is that when it comes to access, Zero Trust is base...

Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds

If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, and...

Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds

If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, and...

Zero Trust: The Protection Model for the Post-Pandemic World

One year and a half following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're seeing most companies either maintaining their remote work policies or slowly moving to a hybrid model. In fact, an estimated 36.2 million Americans will be working remotely by 2025, which is nearly double pre-pandemic levels...

CISA-FBI Guidance for MSPs and their Customers Affected by the Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain Ransomware Attack

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI continue to respond to the recent supply-chain ransomware attack leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya VSA software against multiple managed service providers MSPs and their customers. CISA and FBI strongly urge affected MSPs and their customers to...

The Countdown Has Started -- The Move Toward Zero Trust and MFA

In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of...

When contractors attack: two years in jail for vengeful IT admin

An IT contractor working for an IT consultancy company took it upon himself to perform an act of revenge against the firm he worked at, after they complained about his performance. The charge he faced was breaking into the network of a company in Carlsbad, California. And it got him two years in...

Defending Against the Zero Day: Analyzing Attacker Behavior Post-Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange

In recent weeks, there has been quite a lot of reporting on the exploitation of the latest disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server by an attacker referred to as HAFNIUM. One of the major reasons these latest vulnerabilities are so dangerous and appealing to attackers is that they...