It’s been a year since we debated if Santa is an insider threat. For this festive newsletter, I’m going to be following up with how to wrangle in the elves. Historically Santa elves are known for their workshop skills, putting together cute wood toys and sewing holiday stockings. Fast forward to the 21st century and the skills required to be a modern elf have exploded.

Kubernetes is a revolutionary technology for orchestrating containerized applications, enabling organizations to deploy and manage applications efficiently. Containers’ portability, scalability, and agility have transformed software development and deployment. However, these benefits come with significant security challenges, including risks associated with vulnerabilities in container images and potential misconfigurations.

The rapid adoption of cloud technology in the past few years has transformed IT environments, enabling unprecedented opportunities for flexibility, scalability, and collaboration. However, this transformation has introduced a potentially dangerous level of complexity into these environments – recent research from PwC revealed that 75% of executives report too much complexity in their organizations, leading to ‘concerning’ cyber and privacy risks.

X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) is a remote desktop protocol using X11 environments for managing remote graphical login sessions in Linux and Unix systems. Specifically, it allows X display managers to interface with X terminals or other X server-based systems, by facilitating the remote display management process. It operates by sending a query packet from a client to a server, signaling the request to start a session.