The supply chain is a complex environment that goes deep inside a business and involves the majority of its infrastructure, operations, personnel, and outer relations: vendors, partners, and customers. To protect that matrix is extremely difficult, as there are numerous sensitive nodes, lines, and processes that a security team has to take care of: software and hardware resources, cloud, hybrid and local environments, platforms, and web apps.
If you’re not aware already, then be prepared for change, because a new version of ISO27001 was published in October 2022! It’s all very exciting! The last change to the standard was in 2017. The changes made back then were fundamentally cosmetic, with a few minor tweaks to wording. The changes barely caused a ripple and, even today, organisations are still certified to ISO27001:2013, meaning that no fundamental changes to the standard have taken place for around ten years.
In cybersecurity, three key terms are vulnerability, threat and risk. Often they’re tossed around interchangeably, but they have a specific relationship to one another..
On November 1, OpenSSL v3.0.7 was released, patching two new high-severity vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. The new vulnerabilities have been dubbed by the community as “Spooky SSL,” although the name is not recognized by the OpenSSL team. CVE-2022-3602 was originally discovered by a researcher known as Polar Bear, while CVE-2022-3786 was found during the analysis of the first vulnerability by Viktor Dukhovni.
The increased use of open-source software components in application development exposes companies to security vulnerabilities and liability related to software licensing. To mitigate these risks, software development organizations are turning to Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, which identify security and license compliance issues in code.
OAuth is an authorization protocol that allows apps to securely request user data without requiring the user to enter their sensitive credentials (e.g., API keys, application keys, etc.). Datadog API-based data integrations now fully support OAuth.
Supply chain attacks have been on the rise in the last few years, rapidly becoming one of the most dangerous security threats. This article highlights some of the most noteworthy supply chain incidents observed in 2022.
Nowadays, organizations are exposed to a high volume of security related information. Unfortunately, most of these organizations have little to no capabilities of using this information in a proactive manner, i.e. using information to try to change or anticipate an outcome. In other words, using information to produce intelligence products. It is safe to say that few of these organizations have a clear understanding of what Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is and what it is not.
Note: The examples in this post use apt commands, which are for Debian-based operating systems like Ubuntu, Kali and Mint. However, the examples have also been tested with yum/dnf commands for RPM-based distros like CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora and openSUSE.
