MITRE ATT&CK™ (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge) is a framework for understanding attackers’ behaviors and actions. We are pleased to announce that AlienVault USM Anywhere and Open Threat Exchange (OTX) now include MITRE ATT&CK™ information. By mapping alarms to their corresponding ATT&CK techniques, we are assisting in prioritizing analysis work by understanding the context and scope of an attack.
A complete security program involves many different facets working together to defend against digital threats. To create such a program, many organizations spend much of their resources on building up their defenses by investing in their security configuration management (SCM), file integrity monitoring (FIM), vulnerability management (VM) and log management capabilities. These investments make sense, as the resources listed above can all help protect the organization.
The discovery of a significant container-based (runc) exploit sent shudders across the Internet. Exploitation of CVE-2019-5736 can be achieved with “minimal user interaction”; it subsequently allows attackers to gain root-level code execution on the host. Scary, to be sure. Scarier, however, is that the minimal user interaction was made easier by failure to follow a single, simple rule: lock the door.
Today we are very excited to announce our latest release — Sysdig Secure 2.3! In this version of Sysdig Secure, we have invested heavily in hardening the compliance posture of Kubernetes, Docker configurations, and container images. We have released a set of features that provide compliance focused image scanning, guided remediation, compliance dashboards, and more.
Threat hunting is a regularly-occurring activity in any high-performance SOC. But for less savvy organizations, it’s a must-have activity that can mean the difference between a malicious hack or a normal, uneventful day. With the stakes so high, it’s time to look at the history of threat hunting, what it looks like today, and the future of threat hunting – particularly as adversaries become more advanced every day.
“We’re under attack” may be the three least favorite words of every cybersecurity professional out there. Luckily, for USA Today, this doesn’t happen often, however, last year one of our 115 media markets was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Over the last century, our technology devices have gone from being clunky systems that require tons of human interaction, to modern machines that seem to have a mind of their own. Our phones can do things like autocomplete sentences before we finish typing, suggest purchases based on sites we’ve visited in the past, and even predict our schedules on any given day based on our prior habits. This is all possible due to the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
We recently had the opportunity to share the lessons we have learned about container security from deploying Kubernetes and OpenShift in the field. If you don’t have time to watch the full recording of our conversation, here are a few highlights.
