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How to Cope with the Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap

As the threat landscape continues to evolve and cybercriminals grow in sophistication, security teams are tasked with bolstering their cybersecurity controls, expertise, and solutions. However, doing all of that in-house has become more difficult due to the ongoing security skills shortage. There’s just not enough talent to go around — and that’s not expected to change anytime soon. The industry is trying to attract new talent.

Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations for Logs: CVE-2023-20864

On Thursday, April 20, 2023, VMware disclosed a critical deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2023-20864) in VMware Aria Operations for Logs—formerly known as vRealize Log Insight—that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to VMware through the Zero Day Initiative and has not been actively exploited in campaigns. Furthermore, we have not identified a public proof of concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2023-20864.

Cloud Threats Memo: Threat Actors Increasingly Exploiting Google Drive

Google Drive continues to be one of the most abused cloud services by threat actors, and the latest edition (April 2023) of the Threat Horizons Report, released by security researchers in Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), shows more interesting examples of how opportunistic and state-sponsored threat actors are exploiting its flagship cloud storage service, to conduct malicious campaigns (and by the way, Netskope Cloud and Threat Report is quoted in the report).

Password Management is Critical to Your Cybersecurity Strategy

From generating strong passwords to monitoring the security policies and practices of a company, password managers are powerful solutions that defend companies against cyberthreats and improve employee productivity. Continue reading to learn more about why password management is critical to every organization’s cybersecurity strategy.

US National Security Deep Dive Pillars 2 and 3: Dismantle Threats and Shape Market Forces

Last time we looked at The US National Security Strategy Pillar 1: Defend Critical Infrastructure. Today, we are looking at Pillar 2: Disrupt and Dismantle Threat Actors and Pillar 3: Shape Market Forces to Drive Security Resilience. Preventing the attacks in Pillar 1 would not be necessary if the attackers were taken off the board.

Attacking Constrained Delegation to Elevate Access

This article rounds out a series of articles on Kerberos delegation. Before reading it, we suggest making sure you are familiar with both Active Directory delegation and Kerberos delegation, and have read the earlier posts in the series that provide an overview of how resource-based constrained delegation and unconstrained delegation are configured and how they can be abused. This article explains how a constrained delegation attack enables an adversary to gain elevated access to vital services.

Securing Account Credentials to Protect Your Organization

Compromising the credentials of Active Directory accounts remains a primary way for adversaries to gain a foothold in an organization’s IT ecosystem. They use a range of tactics, including credential stuffing, password spraying, phishing and brute-force attacks This blog post details key best practices for effective user credential management. Then it dives into how software can help enforce those best practices and further secure user credentials.

A Comprehensive Guide for the SOC-2 Audit Checklist

The SOC 2 framework helps you identify potential risks to your business and mitigate them with approved controls. To pass a SOC 2 audit, you must first define your audit objectives, determine your audit scope, and undergo a number of preparation steps and assessments. While these steps can be time-consuming, expensive, and arduous, achieving SOC 2 compliance can have huge business benefits for organizations, from improved compliance risk management to more sales opportunities.