You can't always win racing the (key)cloak

In today’s connected world, many organizations’ “keys to the kingdom” are held in identity and access management (IAM) solutions; these play a crucial role in protecting organizations’ assets. In this post, we delve into the world of Keycloak, a popular open-source IAM solution. As part of our work at CyberArk Labs, we research open-source projects and look for security issues so we can share our findings with the open-source and security communities.

Serving Secure Access: Inside the Privileged Access Ice Cream Parlor

Imagine standing in your favorite ice cream parlor, gazing at myriad flavors chilling behind the counter. The choices are tantalizing, from traditional vanilla and chocolate to a swirl of the two. Ice cream flavors have evolved from these bases into cookies and cream, mint chocolate chip, Neapolitan, birthday cake, Rocky Road, butter pecan and coffee – you get the picture. Ice cream is a lot like privileged access management (PAM) solutions.

CVE-2024-5655: Latest GitLab API Vulnerability Threatens Customer Data Exposure

A security flaw that impacts specific versions of GitLab's Community and Enterprise Edition products was just detected. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute pipelines under any user's credentials. GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform offering tools for software development, version control, and project management. Launched as an open-source project in 2011, it has become a powerful solution used globally by millions.

Regulatory Compliance and Ransomware Preparedness

Ransomware attacks are a huge problem: in the past five years alone, they have brought about a state of emergency across vast swathes of the United States, threatened to topple the Costa Rican government, and brought Portugal's largest media conglomerate to its knees. And ransomware attackers show no signs of slowing down: last year, roughly one-third of all data breaches involved ransomware or some other extortion technique.

June Release Rollup: Egnyte for Microsoft (MS) Teams - Drag and Drop Functionality, Enhancements to Document Room Portal and More

This month's product updates and enhancements rollup includes Egnyte for MS Teams - Drag and Drop functionality, enhancements to the Document Room Portal, and user management on the Android mobile app. Please visit the articles linked below for more details.

Cato Survey: Remote Access Issues and Need for Increased Visibility Continue to Drive SASE in 2024

2024 is expected to be another year of strong growth in the SASE market. Dell’Oro Group predicts the SASE market will surpass $10 billion by the end of the year “representing more than a doubling of the total market in three years,” according to Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Research Director of Dell’Oro Group. Gartner expects the market for SASE to reach $25 billion by 2027. What’s driving this trend?

More than 100K sites impacted by Polyfill supply chain attack

Polyfill.js is a popular open-source project that provides modern functionality on older browsers that do not support it natively; users embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. On February 24, 2024, a Chinese company named Funnull acquired both the domain and the Github account. Following that acquisition, the developer, Andrew Betts, tweeted on his X account a warning for all of his service’s users urging them to remove any reference to polyfill from their code.

CrowdStrike's One-Click Hunting Simplifies Threat Hunting for Security Teams

Adversaries are not breaking in; they are logging in. The CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report highlights an alarming trend: In 75% of cyberattacks detected in 2023, adversaries gained initial access through malware-free methods. This means they acquired valid credentials via techniques such as password spraying or phishing — or they simply purchased them off the dark web.

The Veracode CLI: End to End Testing with Static, Container, and Dynamic Scanning

In this blog, we’re going to examine the Veracode CLI tool. Available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, the imaginatively named binary veracode can perform a variety of functions across the SDLC. Installing the tool is easy, just follow the steps in the documentation.