CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure agency, has recently released a report on Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The agency recognizes that MSPs play a critical role for businesses, providing IT services that would otherwise be too costly or too time-consuming and resource-intensive.
While October is famous for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we provide resources and recommendations for our customers, really every month should focus on this business-critical topic. Given the frequency of Ransomware attacks, all industries need to be increasingly vigilant. This includes many aspects of cybersecurity, such as user training, endpoint security, network security, vulnerability management, and detection and response to incidents.
The Tsunami malware is back! Although it appeared for the first time several years ago, the Sysdig Research Team has just discovered a new sample of Tsunami malware targeting Jenkins and Weblogic services deployed in Kubernetes clusters. The Tsunami malware is a backdoor that gives the attackers full control over the infected systems. Indeed the targeted machines, once infected, communicate with an IRC server waiting for new commands to be executed.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the massive increase in using cloud computing services. As the world progresses through its online evolution, cloud computing services have become more of a necessity. However, along with businesses, cybercriminals have also seen this virtualization as a means of snagging more prey. The rapid increase in cloud computing services has made organizations face novel security challenges.
The JFrog Security research team has recently disclosed two denial of service issues (CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137) in Netty, a popular client/server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. In this post we will elaborate on one of the issues – CVE-2021-37136.
One of my first tasks after leaving NSA for private industry in the early 90s was to write my new company’s information security policy. I’m not sure my previous job as a cryptanalyst left me qualified for this, but I was viewed as the security guy. So, I attacked the task with vim and vigor. That first information security policy I wrote was a thing of beauty. I scoured the Orange Book and other resources to find every security requirement that might help us prevent a security incident.
Over the last year, many of us have been introduced to the term “Software Supply Chain”. For better or worse, it is now part of our defense vernacular and won’t be going away any time soon. If anything, it has consumed us in many ways and has been the cause of many nights of lost sleep. Well, that could just be us on the SURGe team here at Splunk.
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, this week’s theme, Cybersecurity First, is all about making security a priority. To do this, many security operations teams are leaning into threat intelligence to understand specifically where and how to focus their efforts to better protect their organizations.
