The security of your organization’s data and systems is at the top. As a leading provider of operating systems and applications, Microsoft understands the criticality of safeguarding its customers’ sensitive information. With products like Windows, Windows Server, Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise, and Microsoft Edge, they strive to offer secure solutions that inspire confidence.

Consider the following scenario: you are asked by your leadership to find dedicated time for threat hunting activities within your network. After some time, access to the shiny new tool of choice is granted and you are super excited to get started. You log into the tool and are greeted with a lovely search bar; how do you proceed from here? The tool presenting the blank search bar is undoubtedly powerful and feature packed.

This post covers updates that could impact your development workflow. An imminent change is set to occur within the Microsoft ecosystem, explicitly involving the Microsoft author-signing certificate for NuGet packages. Scheduled for deployment as early as August 14th, 2023, this impending alteration warrants your attention to ensure the seamless continuation of your packaging and installation processes.

Vulnerability management (VM) is the process of detecting, prioritizing, remediating, and auditing security vulnerabilities in systems and software. This critical process minimizes the organization’s “attack surface” by installing the most current software updates and properly hardening computer configuration.

Financial institutions, banks, accounting firms, credit unions, and hedge funds may struggle to stay compliant and protect themselves from cyberattacks’ rising frequency. While data security may be top of mind for financial organization teams, they can gain peace of mind and set themselves up for long-term growth by partnering with a managed cloud services provider.

When it comes to analyzing your attack surface, you’re probably assessing vulnerabilities, monitoring your firewall, tracking email security, and managing your identity and access management. But there is one part of the attack surface that often gets overlooked, and for that reason threat actors are targeting it with increased frequency, causing it to jump to the top of the initial access methods list: the human element.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is a U.S. federal law regulating consumer credit information collection, dissemination, and use by consumer reporting agencies. Understanding the FCRA is vital for organizations directly utilizing consumer credit information and individuals who want to exercise their rights over their personal credit information. Monitor your organization’s attack surface and stay FCRA compliant with UpGuard BreachSight >

This tutorial details how to manage secrets effectively using Azure Key Vault. You'll learn how to create secrets and access them in both virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters.

Bots are ubiquitous across the web. If your business has an online presence, it’s being targeted by automated attacks. So, it’s unsurprising to us at Netacea that in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security 2023, bot management is classed as an early mainstream technology – less than two years from reaching full maturity. The nature and purpose of bot attacks depends on many factors including industry, seasonality, and even the functionality of the target.