As most of our customers know, every single company – customer or not – gets free and unlimited access to their own company’s Scorecard. This view allows them to see the complete details of their scorecard and a high-level view of five other scorecards. SecurityScorecard provides this free access because we know that when companies engage with their scorecard, their scores improve, their attribution becomes more accurate, and our customers lower their own cyber risk.

Directory traversal vulnerabilities (also known as path traversal vulnerabilities) allow bad actors to gain access to folders that they shouldn’t have access to. In this post, we are going to take a look how directory traversal vulnerabilities work on web servers written on C/C++, as well as how to prevent them.

What is an SSH bastion and how is this different from an SSH jump server or an SSH proxy? In this post, we’ll answer this question and will show you how to set it up using two popular open source projects. Both Teleport and OpenSSH support bastions, and they are extremely similar as they are both single-binary Linux daemons. Both require a simple configuration file usually stored somewhere under /etc/.

For individuals not completely immersed in the world of IT and cybersecurity, it can be hard to keep up with the latest terms and acronyms.

It’s been a week. A long week. After the most recent Board of Directors meeting, your senior leadership tasked you with finding a security analytics solution. Over the last month, you’ve worked with leadership to develop some basic use cases to determine which solution meets your security and budget needs. You started your research, but everything on the market seems really overwhelming. The Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools have the capabilities you want - and then some.

There is a fine line between security and stability. So, how do you keep your IT assets running while maintaining a stringent security posture?

The first quarter of 2022 will be remembered as one of the most interesting quarters of the past years. A historical war changed cyber warfare rules entirely, New lethal groups made their debuts, causing major damage. Conti Group Leaks and Lockbit2.0 taking over provided us with many insights and paved the way to a new era.

If you haven't heard the gospel of risk-based alerting (RBA) in a SIEM context, by the end of this sermon you'll see why you’ll want it running in your environment yesterday, whether you're an analyst, an engineer, or in leadership.