APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the backbone of many modern applications, and indeed the foundation of some businesses services. APIs enable seamless communication between applications, services and systems, allowing organisations to innovate, collaborate and deliver value to their customers. However, as reliance on APIs grows, so does the need for robust security measures to protect these critical digital assets from potential threats.

Two of the greatest threats facing technology-focused organizations are their often-quick adoption of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), without taking security measures into consideration and a very high reliance on third-party vendors to operate their businesses.

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In this article we’ll discuss DSPM and DFPM, their similarities and differences, and the value that each one brings.

The cybersecurity community woke up on Thursday to news of a cyberattack on Sisense, a major business analytics software company. It’s thought that the breach may have exposed hundreds of Sisense’s customers to a supply chain attack and provided the attacker with a door into the company’s customer networks.

When it comes to software development, security is a necessary element. That is why we will analyze GitHub Advanced Security and how Jira supports this DevSecOps feature. GitHub Advanced Security brings a range of tools to the table, such as code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency review – customized to identify vulnerabilities before they escalate. Jira integrates project management, turning the complex task of tracking and managing security issues into a streamlined process.

On April 11, 2024, CISA issued an cybersecurity advisory disclosing a compromise of customer data from Sisense. The previous day, cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs had published an email sent to Sisense customers by the company’s CISO. The specific details of the compromise have not been made public at this time. Furthermore, Arctic Wolf has not observed any malicious activities conducted by threat actors using compromised credentials from Sisense.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has been around for nearly 15 years. In that time, it changed and was updated periodically to keep up with the times. While changes are occasionally made to the underlying security frameworks like FedRAMP, CMMC and the NIST documentation that reviews each security control, there is also communication directly from the Department of Defense and other organizations to issue additional guidance.

This new solution empowers IT security and operations teams to identify, correlate, prioritize, and remediate risk of endpoint vulnerabilities and security incidents in real time.

A relatively new strain of ransomware called DragonForce has making the headlines after a series of high-profile attacks. Like many other ransomware groups, DragonForce attempts to extort money from its victims in two ways - locking companies out of their computers and data through encryption, and exfiltrating data from compromised systems with the threat of releasing it to others via the dark web.