Every other day, a new cybersecurity breach compromising common or 0-day vulnerability is reported. The rapid shift of digital businesses and remote work opened a whole arena for cyber attacks and increased the demand for solid defences. But, to stay ahead of adversaries, it is critical that you know what cyber security vulnerabilities are after too.

Usually, IT professionals and newcomers to the information security domain confuse security and compliance, which is not their fault. Both are to protect individuals’ and businesses’ digital and physical assets through appropriate security measures.

As technology explodes, so do the threats. Point solutions emerge as security players innovate in order to keep up. This creates the need for consolidation, as the fragmented solutions become too much to manage. We’re entering a consolidation phase now, the process of distilling, refining, and letting the cream rise to the top. We sat down with cybersecurity veteran and vigilante, Chris Wysopal, to get his perspective on emerging trends in cloud-native security.

The world of enterprise cybersecurity is exceedingly dynamic. In a landscape that is ever-changing, security professionals need to combat a class of evolving threat actors by deploying increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques. Today with enterprises operating in an environment that is more challenging than ever, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms play an indispensable role.

Risk awareness, mitigation, and management are integral to solid cybersecurity and business performance in the modern business climate. Organizations need an active approach that supports risk-informed decision-making at every level to succeed at risk management. This is where integrated risk management comes into action.

In September 2021, 45% of full-time employees were still working remotely, and the trend is hard to reverse. People like the freedom of working from home. Without a commute, they save time. Without a boss looming in the background, they can multi-task at home. And, without an office full of colleagues, they don’t have to worry about dressing up or having water cooler chit-chat. While employees see these changes as positives, businesses see remote workers as a bit of a risk.

Open Policy Agent, or OPA, has emerged as an industry standard for cloud-native authorization and policy as code. From 2018 to now, it has grown from being a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project into a fully mature, graduated CNCF project, deployed by many of the largest organizations in the world. (For just the tip of the iceberg, here is a list of users who have made their adoption of OPA public).

This is the first Feature Byte in the AIOps series. The idea of the Feature Byte series is to talk about key operational tasks and processes in AIOps, and how CloudFabrix Data-Centric AIOps platform features help implement such tasks. Look for more such feature bytes over the next few weeks.

Snyk security researchers continually monitor open source ecosystems for malicious packages, utilizing static analysis techniques to identify and flag suspicious packages. Each malicious package is identified upon publication to the package manager and swiftly added to the Snyk Vulnerability Database. During recent research, the team found 12 unique pieces of malware belonging to the same actor.