Operational Readiness and Response to the Ukraine Crisis

Akamai’s security and network teams use our vast view of internet activity to closely monitor and act upon potential cyber threats, and we are taking appropriate measures to review our defensive posture and ensure the integrity of Akamai systems and the Akamai network...

Let’s Get Under the Hood of Imperva Snapshot

A stress-free guide for the prudent cloud operator With minimal setup, Imperva Snapshot enables you to immediately start your in-depth Amazon Web Services AWS RDS database assessment. With no prior training required, cloud operators can use this useful tool to pinpoint deficiencies in their...

Microsoft Security delivers new multicloud capabilities

In times of great change, challenges and opportunities can be found in many directions. This is certainly true in IT and cybersecurity. Today, while navigating a pandemic, frequent supply chain shocks, and global talent shortages, organizations around the world are forced to confront sophisticate...

News Corp’s software supply chain attack proves the need for enhanced security posture

By Waqas Journalists from News Corp have been targeted in a recent series of cyberattacks, which underscores the need to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: News Corps software supply chain attack proves the need for enhanced security posture...

Log4j Bringing You Down? Try Infection Monkey’s New Log4Shell Attack Simulation

What if you could see how a real cyberattack might unfold in your network? Imagine the insights you would gain into your security posture if you could safely and easily simulate the behavior of malicious actors before they hit your defenses. That’s what the Infection Monkey does...

Cloudsploit - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Quick Start Generic $ git clone https://github.com/aquasecurity/cloudsploit.git $ cd cloudsploit $ npm install $ ./index.js -h Docker $ git clone https://github.com/aquasecurity/cloudsploit.git $ cd cloudsploit $ docker build . -t cloudsploit:0.0.1 $ docker run cloudsploit:0.0.1 -h $ docker run -...

What is Shift-Left Testing and What are the Benefits?

Back in the infancy of software creation, certainly up until the mid-90s when we still used more traditional software development practices, most testing was conducted at the end of the production cycle on a graph, this would be to the right on the development timeline. Shift-left takes this...

The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression

Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms. The trojan, tracked as UpdateAgent, started as a relatively basic information-stealer but was observed distributing...

Vulnerability Remediation: It’s Not Just Patching

Vulnerability does not equal a patch, as such remediating a detected vulnerability requires deploying the right patches and, in some cases, making the right configuration changes. Using multiple tools to detect, map and deploy the right remediation actions is time consuming and will result in les...

How to Secure Your SaaS Stack with a SaaS Security Posture Management Solution

Whether it’s Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub or Zoom, all SaaS apps include a host of security features designed to protect the business and its data. The job of ensuring that all the apps have proper security settings and are configured correctly falls on the security team. The challenge...

Automating Agent-less Vulnerability Assessment for Intune Enrolled Mobile Devices

Most Mobile Device Management solutions lack critical functionality such as vulnerability assessment and patch management. Integration with a popular MDM like Microsoft Intune allows Qualys to provide automated onboarding and continuous scanning of your mobile devices, among other functions to...

Microsoft Zero Trust solutions deliver 92 percent return on investment, says new Forrester study

In the last two years, we’ve seen a staggering increase in the adoption of cloud-based services, remote work solutions, bring your own device BYOD, and IoT devices as organizations digitally transform themselves to enable a hybrid workforce.1 Zero Trust has become the essential security strategy...

Imperva Snapshot™ Scan: What You Can Find in the Report

Imperva Snapshot is a free AWS RDS security assessment tool. You can use this tool to gain in-depth visibility into your data and get a deep understanding about what data resides in your RDS and where your RDS database security gaps are. Acquiring this intelligence is a key element and critical...

Relay races, batons, and techniques: How to improve your cloud security posture

In 2008, the US 4x100m relay team was the favorite to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Not a massive surprise, considering that team included the second fastest athlete in history, Tyson Gay. It was a great shock though when the team blundered on the last exchange, dropping the baton,...

How Extended Security Posture Management Optimizes Your Security Stack

As a CISO, one of the most challenging questions to answer is "How well are we protected right now?" Between the acceleration of hackers' offensive capabilities and the dynamic nature of information networks, a drift in the security posture is unavoidable and needs to be continuously compensated...

Euronet Worldwide: Speedy, Global Response to Threats Reduces Risk

After years of using manual processes and systems to manage its IT inventory and track vulnerabilities, racking up costs, and increasing the complexity of asset and vulnerability management, Euronet Worldwide needed a way to get a single, accurate and timely view of risk exposure at the group...

How Open Systems uses Microsoft tools to improve security maturity

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. We’ve all seen it happen—an organization has all the top-notch security tools in place and still, they get breached. In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, complexity leads to...

Security Tool Guts: How Much Should Customers See?

Many cybersecurity tools use engines that calculate risk for events in customer environments. The accuracy of these risk engines is a major concern for customers, since it determines whether an attack is detected or not. Therefore, organizations often request visibility into how a risk engine...

Securing SaaS Apps — CASB vs. SSPM

There is often confusion between Cloud Access Security Brokers CASB and SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM solutions, as both are designed to address security issues within SaaS applications. CASBs protect sensitive data by implementing multiple security policy enforcements to safeguard critic...

How Microsoft is partnering with vendors to provide Zero Trust solutions

As workplaces around the world embrace hybrid work, Zero Trust provides the guiding strategy that keeps companies secure. However, no two organizations are alike. The Zero Trust journey will look unique for every organization that implements it. This means we must work together to create solution...