I share a birthday with the Log4j event. However, unlike this event, I’ve been around for more than one year. On December 9th, 2021, a Tweet exposed a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a widely-used piece of open-source software. The announcement made headlines everywhere, and cybersecurity was suddenly put in the spotlight. It was a wake-up call for many because, in an instant, software that had been considered secure was suddenly at tremendous risk.

Today Bytesafe announced that the Bytesafe Security Platform is now available globally in AWS Marketplace. Bytesafe allows enterprises to increase their software supply chain security posture with automated best practices - and a unified workflow for security and developer teams. Reduced risk and protected assets - without slowing down developers.

Continuing our series about potential attack scenarios, learn how a very easy configuration mistake on GitHub can lead to a major security breach.

War, economic instability, external threats, and global politics affect the energy sector of a country or region. In addition, cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can cripple the strained energy market. Europe is facing a severe energy crisis, and European governments are getting prepared for this winter by managing the demands and keeping energy reserves. The EU (European Union) also accelerated the work to improve critical infrastructure defence and resilience.

There’s no denying that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential security measure that significantly improves an organization’s cyber posture. However, there is no silver bullet in cybersecurity. Though multi-factor authentication proves extremely helpful, determined and resourceful cybercriminals can still find techniques to bypass it. Let’s look at some frequently-used methods cyber-attackers leverage to bypass MFA.

Airtel’s latest initiative prioritizes digital onboarding methods to assist online customer onboarding for its payments bank to create an account simply by doing a face match eKYC check on mobile devices. Airtel Payments Bank is the country’s first Payments Bank to offer this service, and it foreshadows India’s shift toward complete digital banking.

In a market projected to grow to $288.30 billion by 2030, data centers will expand to facilitate more data-driven workloads, including AI and big data. Much of this expansion continues to occur in the cloud, as companies seek to reap the benefits of low-cost infrastructure that they can spin up as needed. In fact, research shows that cloud workloads represented 94% of all data center workloads worldwide in 2021.

Modern organizations are adopting a cloud-native approach to their application development. While this approach provides many benefits, it also makes organizations face several challenges, including the challenge of securing the application with a completely different approach. In this blog, we will discuss how software changes and how organizations should think about securing it.