Product Overview: Cynet SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)

Software-as-a-service SaaS applications have gone from novelty to business necessity in a few short years, and its positive impact on organizations is clear. It's safe to say that most industries today run on SaaS applications, which is undoubtedly positive, but it does introduce some critical ne...

Simplifying the complex: Introducing Privacy Management for Microsoft 365

The data privacy regulation landscape is more complex than ever. With new laws emerging in countries like China and India, shifts in Europe and the United Kingdom, and currently 26 different laws across the United States, staying ahead of regulations can feel impossible. But this work is...

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications' security posture. With enterprises having 1,000 or more employees...

a-texam (=1.1.0), aait (>=1.0.4 <=1.0.5) +1100 more potentially affected by CVE-2019-9423 via opencv-contrib-python (>=3.4.11.45 <=4.1.1.26)

opencv-contrib-python PYPI version =3.4.11.45, =1.0.4, =0.0.29, =1.11.4, =0.5.0, =0.1.0, =24.3.2, =1.0.0, =0.3.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.3 and more Source cves: CVE-2019-9423 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-8849-5H85-98QW...

SANS 2021 Threat Hunting Survey: How Organizations' Security Postures Have Evolved in the New Normal

It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided ...

Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day

Though lots of people might be taking some time off over the Labor Day weekend, threat actors likely won’t — which means organizations should remain particularly vigilante about the potential for ransomware attacks, the federal government has warned. Citing historical precedence, the FBI and CISA...

FBI-CISA Advisory on Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and CISA released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to urge organizations to ensure they protect themselves against ransomware attacks during holidays and weekends—when offices are normally closed. Although FBI and CISA do not currently have any...

Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line

If you ask organizations about their top objectives, you will likely hear they need to increase visibility, reduce toolsets and adopt automation to counteract the cybersecurity skills gap. And what most don’t realize is that these initiatives are driven by hurdles the industry has created for...

COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Data Exposed, Fake Vax Cards Circulate

This week, the Indiana Department of Health issued a notice that the state’s COVID-19 contact-tracing system had been exposed via a cloud misconfiguration, revealing names, emails, gender, ethnicity, race and dates of birth of more than 750,000 people. The incident shows that COVID-19 data could ...

7 ways to harden your environment against compromise

Here at the global Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice CRSP, we work with customers who have experienced disruptive security incidents to restore trust in identity systems and remove adversary control. During 2020, the team responded to many incidents involving ransomware and the...

Salesforce Release Updates — A Cautionary Tale for Security Teams

On the surface, Salesforce seems like a classic Software-as-a-Service SaaS platform. Someone might even argue that Salesforce invented the SaaS market. However, the more people work with the full offering of Salesforce, the more they realize that it goes beyond a traditional SaaS platform's...

CISA Announces Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Platform

CISA has announced the establishment of its Vulnerability Disclosure Policy VDP Platform for the federal civilian enterprise, which will allow the Federal Civilian Executive Branch to coordinate with the civilian security research community in a streamlined fashion. The VDP Platform provides a...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

Risks in Telecommunications IT

We summarize the characteristics, threats, and recommendations to improve the security posture of enterprises' and telecommunications companies' IT infrastructure...

Why Zero Trust Needs the Edge

Backhauling traffic destroys performance, and backhauling attack traffic can destroy even more. Nevertheless, in a traditional security deployment model, we are faced with the lose-lose options of either backhauling all traffic to the security stack or allowing some accesses to not go through the...

Reduce End-User Password Change Frustrations

Organizations today must give attention to their cybersecurity posture, including policies, procedures, and technical solutions for cybersecurity challenges. This often results in a greater burden on the IT service desk staff as end-users encounter issues related to security software, policies, a...

Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Modern password policies are comprised of many different elements that contribute to its effectiveness. One of the components of an effective current password policy makes use of what is known as a custom dictionary that filters out certain words that are not allowed as passwords in the...

Coursera Flunks API Test in Researchers’ Security Exam

Researchers have discovered multiple application programming interface API issues in Coursera, the online learning platform used by 82 million learners and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. On Thursday, the Checkmarx Security Research Team published a report on its findings, which included user...

CVE-2021-1567

A vulnerability in the DLL loading mechanism of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a DLL hijacking attack on an affected device if the VPN Posture HostScan Module is installed on the AnyConnect client. This vulnerability is...

CVE-2021-1567 Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows with VPN Posture (HostScan) Module DLL Hijacking Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the DLL loading mechanism of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a DLL hijacking attack on an affected device if the VPN Posture HostScan Module is installed on the AnyConnect client. This vulnerability is...