In an ideal world, security incidents result in minimal damage, and we can learn from them to improve our future defenses. Fortunately, such appears to be the case with JumpCloud. According to JumpCloud’s blog post, its recent security incident impacted fewer than 5 JumpCloud customers and fewer than 10 devices. Moreover, working together with their incident response (IR) partner Crowdstrike (also a Salt Security partner), JumpCloud has mitigated the attack vector used by the threat actor.

The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never encountered an elephant before, and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant’s body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the elephant based on their limited experience, and their descriptions of the elephant are different.

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The growing use of APIs in various business areas exposes organizations to new security risks. An analysis of data breaches reveals that US companies could face losses ranging from $12 billion to $23 billion in 2022 due to compromises linked to APIs. Lack of visibility plays a major role in the rise of API breaches. The lack of visibility inherently creates blind spots. How do you overcome the problem of hidden APIs?