A Bootiful Podcast: Moderne founder Jon Schneider on OpenRewrite, modernizing code bases en masse, freedom and responsibility, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long @starbuxman talks to Moderne @moderneinc founder Jon Schneider @jonkschneider on OpenRewrite, modernizing code bases en masse, freedom and responsibility, and more...

Security Bulletin: IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in components of IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration as described in the Vulnerability Details section. FasterXML jackson-databind, Keycloak, and SnakeYAML are vulnerable to a denial of service CVE-2022-25857, CVE-2022-38751,...

2023 Cybersecurity Industry Predictions

With 2022 rapidly coming to a close, this is the time of year where it makes sense to take a step back and look at the year in cybersecurity, and make a few critical predictions for what the industry could face in the year ahead. In order to give the security community some insight into where we’...

The Four-Step Approach to Modernizing Your DAM Strategy

Effective data security is critical to an organizations success and requires a strategy that aligns with the company’s objectives and those of its stakeholders. As the data landscape changes, most Database Activity Monitoring DAM solutions struggle to meet new data security requirements. The resu...

Security Bulletin: IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration is vulnerable to SQL injection due to PostgreSQL (CVE-2022-31197) and obtaining sensitive information due to RESTEasy (CVE-2020-25633)

Summary IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration platform component is vulnerable to SQL injection and obtaining sensitive information as described in the Vulnerability Details section. These components are used in IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration for infrastructur...

5 SOAR Myths Debunked

A recently published ESG research ebook, sponsored by Rapid7, SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, shows that organizations are increasingly leveraging security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR systems in an attempt to keep up with their security operations challenges. This makes...

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (More Data): What Security Pros Are Saying

Eight in 10 organizations collect, process, and analyze security operations data from more than 10 sources, ESG identified in a new ebook SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, sponsored by Rapid7. Security professionals believe that the most important sources are endpoint security data 24%, thre...

Security Bulletin: IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in components of IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration as described in the Vulnerability Details section. Guava, Red Hat Single Sign-On, Springfox and Spring Security could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions...

Three Reasons Why Unification Drives Modern Data Security Strategy

Today, the necessities of business innovation compel most organizations to have several teams with diverse priorities managing dozens of data sources, all with different structures. This makes it impossible to secure complete data repositories successfully using traditional methods. This post wil...

XSS in JSON: Old-School Attacks for Modern Applications

I recently wrote a blog post on injection-type vulnerabilities and how they were knocked down a few spots from 1 to 3 on the new OWASP Top 10 for 2022. The main focus of that article was to demonstrate how stack traces could be — and still are — used via injection attacks to gather information...

A clearer lens on Zero Trust security strategy: Part 1

Todays world is flooded with definitions and perspectives on Zero Trust, so we are kicking off a blog series to bring clarity to what Zero Trust is and what it means. This first blog will draw on the past, present, and future to bring a clear vision while keeping our feet planted firmly on the...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Node.js affect IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software included in Rational Developer for i

Summary Vulnerabilities detected in Node.js versions before v14.16.2 that affect the Cordova platform packaged with Rational Developer for i Software. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the Remediation/Fixes section Affected Products and Versions Affected Products|...

The critical role of Zero Trust in securing our world

We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape that we’ve ever seen. While our current ability to detect and respond to attacks has matured incredibly quickly in recent years, bad actors haven’t been standing still. Large-scale attacks like those pursued by Nobelium1 and Hafnium,...

Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization

In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Node.js affecting Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software included in Rational Developer for i and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux

Summary Portions of Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software are shipped as a component of Rational Developer for i Modernization Tools, Java edition, and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux. Multiple Node.js vulnerabilities have been discovered that affect the Cordova platform...

What’s Different About Data Security in the Cloud? Almost Everything.

Well before the onset of the pandemic most organizations had a digital transformation plan in place which included migrating workloads to new modern architectures, usually a private, public, or hybrid cloud. As the challenges caused by COVID-19 became more acute, these organizations accelerated...

The Only Constant Is Change -- Rethinking Secure Access for a New Workforce

It seems like a long time ago now when IT teams had their annual strategy meeting, where topics related to network modernization with SASE or SD-WANs, remote access, threat prevention, and cloud adoption were likely discussed. COVID-19, however, has caused a lot of these initiatives to take a...

How We Streamlined Infrastructure and Tooling as a Service for Development

At VMware Carbon Black, we’ve historically acquired a broad technology stack in our journey to build the premier security solution that understands cybercriminal behavior. Inheriting such a variety of tooling and storage solutions presented a challenge for us operationally. So, in order to reduce...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in modules from the IBM SDK for Node.js affect the Cordova tools packaged in Rational Developer for i Modernization Tools Java Edition and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux (CVE-2014-7191 and CVE-2014-7192)

Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the syntax-error and qs modules packaged in the IBM SDK for Node.js and Cordova platform packaged in Rational Developer for i Modernization Tools Java Edition and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux. The fix upgrades IBM SDK for Node.js to...

Security Bulletin: Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities in Node.js affect IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software included in Rational Developer for i and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux

Summary Portions of IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software are shipped as a component of Rational Developer for i RPG and COBOL + Modernization Tools, Java and EGL editions, and Rational Developer for AIX and Linux. Multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities in Node.js were found on May ...