The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced new regulations for public companies requiring them to disclose a “material cybersecurity incident” via formal report due four business days after a company determines that a cybersecurity incident is material. This is creating a lot of buzz, with companies worried if they will be prepared.

Within the security community of late, the focus has been on “shifting left”, and while that has merit, it is somewhat myopic missing some of the realities of defense in practice. Instead, I propose a simple framework to help guide initiatives that will “level up” defenses and greatly improve security postures wholistically. Some license is taken in terminology in order to keep things simple, memorable, and applicable.

For those responsible directly or indirectly for the cyber defense of their organizations, June 2023 is proving to be an extremely challenging month. In this month alone, vulnerabilities were discovered in various appliances, ranging from CVE-2023-27997 impacting FortiGate devices to CVE-2023-35708 impacting MOVEit Transfer software as well as the exploitation activity discovered of Barracuda appliances via CVE-2023-2868.

The financial outlook for the rest of 2023 and 2024 is far from cheery, and economic uncertainty is affecting everyone and everything, including the cybersecurity sector. Security budget cuts or freezes are the course many organizations are tempted to take in this financially precarious situation. Conservative spending is a natural response to the present economic downturn and a possible recession knocking on our doors, implying fewer clients, lower profits, and higher costs.

More and more organizations are abandoning the outdated waterfall development methodology for more practical and efficient Agile development practices. As this movement has occurred, development teams are moving faster than ever by employing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices that are serving to shorten development cycles and get new features into production faster. This does, however, come with greater security risk in some respects.

Every year, Australians lose over $6 billion due to financial fraud and cybercrime , so it is great to see the collaboration between banks in Australia to fight fraudsters head-on with the help of the Fraud Reporting Exchange (FRX ). The FRX is a trusted, secure, single platform providing timely and efficient means of reporting and actioning fraudulent (including scam) activities between banks.

As cloud technology continues to be a cornerstone of modern businesses and organizations, securing cloud environments has become more crucial than ever. Enter cloud security posture management (CSPM), a proactive approach to ensuring the security of cloud infrastructures. With CSPM, organizations can continuously monitor, assess, and remediate potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in their cloud environments. But when choosing a CSPM solution, is open source the way to go?

Kubernetes, and containerization in general, has a wealth of benefits for many teams operating cloud-native applications. From a threat detection standpoint, however, it is often difficult for newcomers to this space to gain the relevant hands-on experience without trampling over production environments. The Sumo Logic team has previously authored articles on Kubernetes DevSecOps vulnerabilities and best practices as well as Kubernetes logging and monitoring.

Security engineering teams spend hours every week tuning their security information and event management (SIEM) systems to ensure that they are effective at detecting security threats and minimizing false positives. Such “tuning tax” is common as customers add new SIEM rules to cope with rapidly changing threat landscape and attacker tactics and as their attack surface evolves through automated changes to their application and infrastructure stacks.

When we talk about emerging technologies and digitization, we often forget that while innovators work to bring the best solutions to market, cybersecurity gurus are concurrently working to identify loopholes and vulnerabilities in these new systems. Gone are the days when cyber attacks were monthly news; instead, they happen almost daily.