Comply Investigations - Tanium Tech Talks #59

Tanium now helps you investigate exact findings on endpoint vulnerability and compliance scans. A common frustration between IT scanning and remediation teams is the back-and-forth over getting every detail right on the fix. Maybe the machine is patched, but it is still missing the proper registry flag. Tanium has solved this by giving you full visibility into EXACTLY what was or was not in the correct state for BOTH vulnerability and configuration compliance scanning. See each test, pass or fail, and the actual values from the compliance scan on the endpoints.

FBI: 870 Critical Infrastructure Organizations Were the Victim of Ransomware in 2022

The FBI’s newly-released report shows just how ransomware continues to plague critical infrastructure sectors, despite the U.S. government’s recent efforts to stop these attacks. You’ll probably recall the news about ransomware attacking the Colonial Pipeline and other U.S. critical infrastructure (CI) to the point that the government was stepping up their efforts to stop these attacks and even conducting congressional hearings on what to do about the problem.

"We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet."

This MIT Technology Review headline caught my eye, and I think you understand why. They described a new type of exploit called prompt injection. Melissa Heikkilä wrote: "I just published a story that sets out some of the ways AI language models can be misused. I have some bad news: It’s stupidly easy, it requires no programming skills, and there are no known fixes.

Tips for an Effective Vulnerability Assessment

So, you (or your friendly neighborhood MSP) have just finished a vulnerability scan as part of a vulnerability management program and/or in preparation for penetration testing. But one ominous question looms: What next? Sorting through hundreds of thousands of vulnerability logs can be daunting, and determining which ones are worth investigating further is even less of a trivial task.