A new critical vulnerability has been disclosed by Atlassian in a security advisory published on October 4th 2023 in its on-premise Confluence Data Center and Server product. A privilege escalation vulnerability through which attackers may exploit a vulnerable endpoint in internet-facing Confluence instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and gain access to the Confluence instance.

An Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is a technology that can automatically detect and control security attacks, both known and unknown. The focus of this system is threat prevention — though a related technology, IDS, works to better detect threats. Let’s take look at how IPS prevents intrusions and the most common ways IPS can work.

Last year, we talked about different techniques for using Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, and Splunk Enterprise Security to detect modern financial crime using risk scores with aggregated rules and the power of the Splunk platform.

The Infosec App for Splunk is your starter security pack. It's designed to address the most common security use cases, including continuous monitoring and security investigations. The new Infosec Multicloud App for Splunk is designed by our field team to help customers that have a cloud environment. In addition to views of security posture across cloud providers, the app includes a billing dashboard for a high level overview of costs spread across your various cloud providers.