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DevSecOps in an Agile Environment

At first glance, DevSecOps and Agile can seem like different things. In reality, the methodologies often complement each other. Let’s see how. Agile is a methodology that aims to give teams flexibility during software development. DevSecOps is about adding automated security to an existing automated software development process. Both are methodologies that require high levels of communication between different stakeholders and continuous improvement as part of the process.

Mind the MPLog: Leveraging Microsoft Protection Logging for Forensic Investigations

In an incident response investigation, CrowdStrike analysts use multiple data points to parse the facts of who, what, when and how. As part of that fact-finding mission, analysts investigating Windows systems leverage the Microsoft Protection Log (MPLog), a forensic artifact on Windows operating systems that offers a wealth of data to support forensic investigations. MPLog has proven to be beneficial in identifying process execution and file access on systems.

How to Use SSH Agent Safely

The SSH agent (ssh-agent) is an SSH key manager that stores the SSH key in a process memory so that users can log into SSH servers without having to type the key’s passphrase every time they authenticate with the server. In addition to the key management feature, SSH agent supports agent forwarding, which helps to authenticate with servers that sit behind a bastion or jump server.

What is a Reverse Proxy?

A reverse Proxy server processes all traffic between end-users and a web server. To achieve this, this type of proxy server is situated at a network's edge as an additional endpoint where it receives all initial HTTP connection requests before they're sent to the origin server (where all website data is stored). Reverse proxies can be regarded as the security guard of your network, ensuring all connection requests are legitimate and securely established.

What is Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ)?

The threat landscape is expanding and security professionals are barely keeping up. On a daily basis, CISOs and cybersecurity staff need to contend with new malware variants, data breach attempts, ransomware attacks, zero-day exploits - all while ensuring uninterrupted dedication to vendor risk mitigation efforts. With so many cyber threats testing your cyber resilience at once, where should you focus your cybersecurity efforts?

Bringing home the beacon (from Cobalt Strike)

Elastic Security engineers have documented a less tedious way to find network beaconing from Cobalt Strike. In their full analysis (), Elastic Security team researchers Andrew Pease, Derek Ditch, and Daniel Stepanic walk users through the Elastic fleet policy, how to collect the beacon, beacon configuration, how to analyze its activity, and how you can set it up in your organization’s environment.

As "left" as it can get - find Kubernetes security issues while coding, not after

Kubescape is now available on the Visual Studio extension marketplace. Visual Studio code extensions are add-ons that allow developers to customize and enhance their experience in Visual Studio by adding new features or integrating 3rd party tools. An extension can range in all levels of complexity, but its main purpose is to increase developers’ productivity and cater to their workflow.

You Didn't Ask? Well, the SOC Evolution Answered Anyway

Let me begin by stating the obvious: The cyberattack surface is growing exponentially and diversely. Essentially, it’s a bigger shark and we’ve got the same small boat. The environments, platforms, services, regions and time zones that constitute modern enterprise operations and drive digital transformation for business continue to require increasing specialization and expertise beyond current in-house capabilities.