Considering the vast attack surface and flat network architecture, Kubernetes workloads are particularly susceptible to network-based threats. While following best practices like workload access controls, workload-centric IDS/IPS, and WAF can help prevent and block attacks, anomaly detection has become crucial in today’s IT landscape to proactively anticipate security threats.
On the 7th of November, Sumo Logic announced a security incident. Their security team detected the use of a compromised set of credentials to access a Sumo Logic AWS account. This Sumo Logic breach has had a downstream impact on users. Let’s get into the facts of what we know.
More than 130 global jurisdictions have enacted data privacy laws. While each contains rules and requirements distinct to their regions, they share a common priority: identity security. That’s because if an attacker compromises a single identity in an organization where sensitive data is collected, stored and handled, it’s all downhill from there.
Modern applications are made up of more than first-party code and third-party dependencies. Even a single application links back to a vast ecosystem of cloud environments, containers, third-party base images, and automated container orchestration. Along with the ability to build applications faster, developers also need to secure code and associated dependencies, deployment configuration, and containers running in production.
This blog post series offers a gentle introduction to Rego, the policy language from the creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine. If you’re a beginner and want to get started with writing Rego policy as code, you’re in the right place. In this three-part series, we’ll go over the following: As a reminder, Rego is a declarative query language from the makers of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) framework.
Following the release of the Phishing Threat Trends Report, we recently hosted the Human Risk Summit, a coming together of some of the biggest names in the industry to discuss the human element and the role it plays in cybersecurity. In this post, we’ll recap some of the themes, statistics, and insights from two of our speakers – Nadine Michaelides of University College London and Jinan Budge of Forrester.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Quite a strange and serious concern if funds are just leaking don’t you think?
In the world of digital transactions, businesses handling payment cards must demonstrate their data security measures through the Payment Card Industry Self-Assessment Questionnaire (PCI SAQ). Completing the SAQ is a key step in the PCI DSS assessment process, followed by an Attestation of Compliance (AoC) to confirm accuracy. Level 1 merchants and service providers, mandated by PCI SSC or customers, must complete a Report on Compliance (RoC), while others use an SAQ.
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