#105 - Cybersecurity in space with Tim Fowler, Offensive Security @ Black Hills Information Security

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we talk about cybersecurity issues as they relate to the space industry with Tim Fowler, Offensive Security Analyst at Black Hills Information Security. Tim's unique blend of curiosity, determination, and passion for problem-solving make him stand out in the cybersecurity world. As a frequent speaker on topics ranging from Information Security to Open Source software, Tim's mission is clear: to empower others to take control of their journey and make a positive impact in the world of cybersecurity.

How AI Could Have Positive and Negative Effects on Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence is a game-changer technology that has created a buzz in today’s market, which we believe you can agree on. How has AI become a game changer in such a short span of time? Well, the hype is real, and it is because of the revolutionary tools and technologies that come into the market. That’s the one side of the coin! What about the other side? Yes, with these modern AI technologies, there is a fear which we overlooked and that’s security.

How Time, Entitlements and Approvals (TEA) Can Secure the Keys to Your Cloud

A popular topic of conversation in my day-to-day work is how to secure privileged access to cloud management consoles and workloads. And that’s no surprise, considering more and more applications and workloads are migrating to the cloud. Up until recently, the answer has typically been clear when it comes to identity security and privileged access management (PAM). It’s simple: first, you manage credentials by securing them in a vault. The next step is to rotate them.

The Anatomy of an ALPHA SPIDER Ransomware Attack

Over the last two years, CrowdStrike Services has run several incident response (IR) engagements — in both pre- and post-ransomware situations — in which different ALPHA SPIDER affiliates demonstrated novel offensive techniques coupled with more commonly observed techniques. The events described in this blog have been attributed to ALPHA SPIDER affiliates by CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations.

Evaluating the differences: What businesses should know about PCI DSS v4.0 versus v3.2.1

In the realm of payment security, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) provides a critical framework that guides businesses to protect cardholder information against breaches and fraud. As the digital landscape evolves and cybersecurity threats become increasingly sophisticated, the PCI DSS sets guidelines and requirements for securing payment card data, with periodic updates to address emerging threats.

Account Takeover Attack Live Simulation

Account takeover attacks have increased by 354% y-o-y in 2023. What’s worse? It takes 11 months to solve an ATO breach. By that time, attackers would have laterally traversed your entire digital infrastructure, including databases. So, how do you protect your organisations against sophisticated ATO attacks that even bypass 2FA? In this live attack simulation, Karthik Krishnamoorthy (CTO) and Vivekanand Gopalan (VP of Products) demonstrate various ways in which account takeover can happen, along with practices to protect your websites and APIs against ATO attacks.

VMware vs KVM: A 5-Point Analysis

Following the boat-rocking acquisition acquisition of VMware by Broadcom at the end of 2023, uncertainty and skepticism has been looming among VMware customers as the changes were fast and drastic, impacting everyone in one way or another. While VMware still remains the virtualization leader and isn’t going anywhere (especially for large customers), a number of smaller organizations have been poking around to find whether realistic alternatives exist.

Get the AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Focus on Energy and Utilities

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Focus on Energy and Utilities. The report examines the edge ecosystem, surveying energy and utilities IT leaders from around the world, and provides benchmarks for assessing your edge computing plans. This is the 12th edition of our vendor-neutral and forward-looking report.

Integrating Calico Image Assurance (Vulnerability Management) with Azure DevOps Build Pipeline

In cloud-native software development, ensuring the supply chain security of containerized applications in Kubernetes (K8s) environments is of utmost importance. With the continuous evolution of threats, safeguarding your containerized applications at every stage is not a choice anymore; it is an absolute necessity. With Calico’s vulnerability management, you can scan container images across three pivotal application lifecycle stages: Let’s break down the scanning guardrails offered by Calico.

6 Security Risks to Consider with WebAssembly

Programs and apps are a manifestation of ideas in a digital format. If you can dream it in other languages, WebAssembly can deliver it to the browser. From games ported from Unity to PDF editing on the web and leveraging interactive data from Jupyter and Rust, WebAssembly’s use cases are countless. WebAssembly (Wasm) is gaining traction to deliver high-performance client-side code that often cannot be created or executed by JavaScript, at least not in a performant way.