Deploying Zero-Trust Networks in the Era of COVID-19: A Guide for Service Providers

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed business continuity inadequacies at many organizations, and highlighted the slow pace of progress in digital transformation. This new reality necessitates a departure from a traditional network-centric security model that assumes every device and user within the network should be trusted.

Website Security Checklist | How to secure your site in 2021?

Website security should be a concern for any business owner because attackers are becoming much more sophisticated and are always looking for ways to get into customer databases even without exploiting the victim directly. In this blog, we are sharing a website security checklist to help website owners improve their websites against the most common cyber attacks.

Weekly Cyber Security News 30/07/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24 . Quite a serious data breach which could have repercussions, perhaps not as bad as if it happened in other countries where gun crime is more prevalent, nevertheless it is still a concern.

Bring Xray Out of the Box with Dependency and Binary Scanning

Shifting left security means you, the developer, catching and fixing vulnerabilities and license violations early in the SDLC. That’s why Xray scans binaries pushed to Artifactory by your builds, and alerts you when there are issues with your dependencies. But catching them earlier, even before checking in code, can be important for developers shifting left.

How to Spot C2 Traffic on Your Network

Attackers often hide their command and control (C2) activity using techniques like encryption, tunneling in noisy traffic like DNS, or domain generation algorithms to evade blacklists. Reliably spotting C2 traffic requires a comprehensive network security monitoring capability like open source Zeek that transforms packets into connection-linked protocol logs that let analysts make fast sense of traffic. Corelight’s commercial NDR solutions generate this Zeek network evidence and also provide dozens of proprietary C2 insights and detections.