CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA conducted a SILENTSHIELD red team assessment against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB organization. During SILENTSHIELD assessments, the red team first performs a no-notice, long-term simulation of...

Rapid7 completes IRAP PROTECTED assessment for Insight Platform solutions

Exciting news from Australia! Rapid7 has successfully completed an Information Security Registered Assessors Program IRAP assessment to PROTECTED Level for several of our Insight Platform solutions. What is IRAP? An IRAP assessment is an independent assessment of the implementation,...

5 Key Questions CISOs Must Ask Themselves About Their Cybersecurity Strategy

Events like the recent massive CDK ransomware attack – which shuttered car dealerships across the U.S. in late June 2024 – barely raise public eyebrows anymore. Yet businesses, and the people that lead them, are justifiably jittery. Every CISO knows that cybersecurity is an increasingly hot topic...

From Top Dogs to Unified Pack

Embracing a consolidated security ecosystem Authored by Ralph Wascow Cybersecurity is as unpredictable as it is rewarding. Each day often presents a new set of challenges and responsibilities, particularly as organizations accelerate digital transformation efforts. This means you and your cyber...

CVE-2024-5216 Denial of Service in mintplex-labs/anything-llm

A vulnerability in mintplex-labs/anything-llm allows for a Denial of Service DoS condition due to uncontrolled resource consumption. Specifically, the issue arises from the application's failure to limit the size of usernames, enabling attackers to create users with excessively bulky texts in the...

CVE-2024-5216

CVE-2024-5216 affects mintplex-labs/anything-llm. The root cause is the application not limiting the size of usernames, enabling a DoS through denial of service via extremely large username values. Resulting impact is an unresponsive user management panel, preventing admins from editing, suspendi...

Cybersecurity CPEs: Unraveling the What, Why & How

Staying Sharp: Cybersecurity CPEs Explained Perhaps even more so than in other professional domains, cybersecurity professionals constantly face new threats. To ensure you stay on top of your game, many certification programs require earning Continuing Professional Education CPE credits. CPEs are...

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices

Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology OT devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of OT devices and...

Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...

6 insights from Microsoft’s 2024 state of multicloud risk report to evolve your security strategy

Multicloud computing has become the foundation for digital businesses, with 86% of organizations having already adopted a multicloud approach.1 However, for all its benefits around increased agility, flexibility, and choice, we also see unique challenges with multicloud—including the need to mana...

GHSA-7R3J-QMR4-JFPJ Kaminari Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

A moderate severity security vulnerability has been identified in the Kaminari pagination library for Ruby on Rails, concerning insecure file permissions. This advisory outlines the vulnerability, affected versions, and provides guidance for mitigation. Impact This vulnerability is of moderate...

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management Checklist, 2025 Edition

Since the first edition of The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM Checklist was released three years ago, the corporate SaaS sprawl has been growing at a double-digit pace. In large enterprises, the number of SaaS applications in use today is in the hundreds, spread across departmenta...

Drs-Malware-Scan - Perform File-Based Malware Scan On Your On-Prem Servers With AWS

Perform malware scan analysis of on-prem servers using AWS services Challenges with on-premises malware detection It can be difficult for security teams to continuously monitor all on-premises servers due to budget and resource constraints. Signature-based antivirus alone is insufficient as moder...

Elevating Security: Qualys Unveils First Solution for Scanning AWS Bottlerocket in Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS

With this new offering, Qualys establishes itself as the first and only vendor solution with the unique ability to scan AWS Bottlerocket instances directly using the Qualys Cloud Agent and TotalCloud Agent-less Snapshot-Based Scan. This innovative capability empowers organizations to...

New Guide: How to Scale Your vCISO Services Profitably

Cybersecurity and compliance guidance are in high demand among SMEs. However, many of them cannot afford to hire a full-time CISO. A vCISO can answer this need by offering on-demand access to top-tier cybersecurity expertise. This is also an opportunity for MSPs and MSSPs to grow their business a...

De-risk the Software Supply Chain by Expanding Unparalleled Detection Coverage With Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis

QIDs/CVEs When it comes to cybersecurity, speed is key in getting an edge over attackers. But when you consider that vulnerabilities weaponize 24 days faster than then they are remediated on average, cybersecurity stakeholders have a lot of catching up to do. While there are many ways defenders c...

Why a Cloud Security Platform Approach is Critical

Explore how a cybersecurity platform with attack surface management and runtime protection capabilities can enhance your cloud security posture...

Security Posture Management for GitHub: spotting and fixing risks in your GitHub organization just got a lot easier

Wiz SPM for version control systems helps you find and fix risks in your GitHub instance...

CTEM 101 - Go Beyond Vulnerability Management with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

In a world of ever-expanding jargon, adding another FLA Four-Letter Acronym to your glossary might seem like the last thing you'd want to do. But if you are looking for ways to continuously reduce risk across your environment while making significant and consistent improvements to security postur...