New e-book: Establishing a proactive defense with Microsoft Security Exposure Management

Effective exposure management begins by illuminating and hardening risks across the entire attack surface. Some of the most meaningful shifts in security happen quietly—when teams take a clear look at their exposure landscape and acknowledge the gap between where they stand today and where they...

CISA and OpenSSF Release Framework for Package Repository Security

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA announced that it's partnering with the Open Source Security Foundation OpenSSF Securing Software Repositories Working Group to publish a new framework to secure package repositories. Called the Principles for Package Repository...

ACSC Essential 8 Cybersecurity Strategies, Maturity Levels, and Best Practices

Originally published in 2017 as an evolution of the Australian Signals Directorate’s Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC Essential 8 E8 consists of a set of strategies that can make it harder for threat actors to compromise a firm’s...

Microsoft contributes S2C2F to OpenSSF to improve supply chain security

On August 4, 2022, Microsoft publicly shared a framework.pdf that it has been using to secure its own development practices since 2019, the Secure Supply Chain Consumption Framework S2C2F, previously the Open Source Software-Supply Chain Security OSS-SSC Framework. As a massive consumer of and...

Microsoft contributes S2C2F to OpenSSF to improve supply chain security

On August 4, 2022, Microsoft publicly shared a framework.pdf that it has been using to secure its own development practices since 2019, the Secure Supply Chain Consumption Framework S2C2F, previously the Open Source Software-Supply Chain Security OSS-SSC Framework. As a massive consumer of and...

What is the Essential Eight (And Why Non-Aussies Should Care)

In 2017, The Australian Cyber Security Center ACSC published a set of mitigation strategies that were designed to help organizations to protect themselves against cyber security incidents. These strategies, which became known as the Essential Eight, are designed specifically for use on Windows...