Threat Identity...The First Line of Defense

Last quarter, we discussed zero trust and identity in regard to remote application access. This focus was primarily looking at enterprise users seeking to gain access to applications on a network where there are no boundaries: The internet. In the concept of zero trust, the internet is considered...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Global IT Asset Discovery, Inventory, and Management

Maintaining an IT asset inventory is essential for a strong security posture, but digital transformation has further complicated this already challenging task. “The volume and variety of assets, including cloud, virtualization, mobility and IoT, is disrupting IT, and security takes center stage,”...

When It Comes To IoT Security, Liability Is Muddled

BOSTON—From hacked connected cars to power grids, the implications of IoT security issues seem to be getting graver – yet when it comes to pointing fingers for security troubles, many times victims don’t even know where to start. IoT experts said at the Security of Things Forum today said that a...

Building Zero Trust networks with Microsoft 365

The traditional perimeter-based network defense is obsolete. Perimeter-based networks operate on the assumption that all systems within a network can be trusted. However, todays increasingly mobile workforce, the migration towards public cloud services, and the adoption of Bring Your Own Device...

How To Prioritize Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment

Here’s a stat that shows the importance of prioritizing vulnerability remediation: Almost 30% of the CVEs disclosed in 2017 had a CVSS score of “High” or “Critical.” That works out to about 3,000 such vulnerabilities, or about 58 every week. Given this large number of severe vulnerabilities, it’s...

The connected workforce: The importance of protecting home and corporate networks

In the current corporate and employee landscape, workers are leveraging a variety of endpoints from a range of different locations to access enterprise systems and assets. Staff members are no longer chained to their desks, and many employers and workers alike have begun taking advantage of...

Excerpts from Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Choosing the Right Cloud

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Series Part 2: Protect

A key goal of many chief information security officers is to bolster the protections the company uses to safeguard its most critical assets. This type of priority isn't difficult to understand in the current cybersecurity landscape - 360,000 new malicious files were discovered every day in 2017,...

Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

Australia’s “Essential Eight” is Critical to Meet 2018 Cybersecurity Mandates & Privacy Laws

Christopher Strand, Carbon Black’s security risk and compliance officer recently wrote a blog discussing how the new mandatory data breach notification rule in the Privacy Amendment Notifiable Data Breaches Bill 2016, helps bring attention to cybersecurity solutions and focus on the practices...

Layered Security Without the Layered Complexity

With the recent influx of news reports regarding security incidents, more Chief Information Security Officers CISOs, Chief Information Officers CIOs, and IT professionals are reviewing current security infrastructures, policies, and practices to identify potential weaknesses in their security...

Cloud Security Suite - One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS infrastructure

One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS. Pre-requisites Python 2.7 pip git Installation git clone https://github.com/SecurityFTW/cs-suite.git cd cs-suite/ sudo python setup.py Note - Generate a set of ReadOnly AWS keys which the tool will ask to finish the installation process...

5 Steps to a High-Speed SOC

Your endpoints don’t just live within the safety of your corporate network—they’re out in the wild exposed to millions of new threats every day. With non-malware attacks on the rise that are even harder to detect than traditional malware, security professionals are realizing it is no longer a...

PhpCollab 2.5.1 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications CVE-2017-6089 PhpCollab 2.5.1 Multiple SQL Injections unauthenticated Description PhpCollab is an open source web-based project management system, that enables collaboration across the Internet. SQL injections The phpCollab code does not...

Attacking Critical Infrastructure: The Evolution Of Kinetic Warfare

I said earlier in 2017 I believed it was quite possible that during the year a major cyberattack will occur in either the United States, the United Kingdom, or another friendly country that will require a response equivalent to a kinetic attack. In other words, a cyberattack will occur that will ...

Is Your Security Team Setup To Fail?

The ingredients for strong cybersecurity aren’t a secret. In fact, they haven’t changed significantly over the past 20 years—the ingredients are available to almost every organization out there. On the surface, doing security isn’t that hard: | Patch quickly and frequently. Use reasonable securit...

Sabre Corp. Investigating Breach of Reservation System

Travel services company Sabre Corp., acknowledged this week that it’s in the middle of investigating a data breach in its Hospitality Solutions reservation system that may have spilled personally identifiable information and payment card data belonging to its customers. The Texas-based company...

M-Trends 2017: A View From the Front Lines

Every year Mandiant responds to a large number of cyber attacks, and 2016 was no exception. For our M-Trends 2017 report, we took a look at the incidents we investigated last year and provided a global and regional the Americas, APAC and EMEA analysis focused on attack trends, and defensive and...

FedRAMP Readiness Assessment Report (RAR) template launched

As part of the FedRAMP Accelerated process, cloud service providers CSPs can now complete a Readiness Assessment Report RAR to demonstrate their readiness for the FedRAMP process. The RAR is required for CSPs pursuing the FedRAMP JAB approval route. CSPs should also consider having a Readiness...

A year of Windows kernel font fuzzing #1: the results

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero This post series is about how we used at-scale fuzzing to discover and report a total of 16 vulnerabilities in the handling of TrueType and OpenType fonts in the Windows kernel during the last year. In part 1 here, we present a general overview of...