Protecting data is more mission-critical to businesses than ever before. Nearly every business process is tied to data, meaning that security teams need to streamline their monitoring, detection, and investigation processes. Centralized log management gives security teams the resources they need when they need them. Understanding how to use your log management solution for security monitoring can help you successfully mitigate risk and reduce cost.

A new adversary simulation tool is steadily growing in the ranks of popularity among red teamers and most recently adversaries. Brute Ratel states on its website that it "is the most advanced Red Team & Adversary Simulation Software in the current C2 Market." Many of these products are marketed to assist blue teams in validating detection, prevention, and gaps of coverage.

On Sept. 29th 2022, cybersecurity organization GTSC publicized a report outlining attacks they have seen in the wild targeting as-yet unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. When successfully exploited this combination of vulnerabilities results in an authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack. Until a patch has been issued, Microsoft has posted a security bulletin detailing a workaround.

The Splunk Vulnerability Disclosure SVD-2022-0604 published the existence of an attack where the dashboards in certain Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise versions may let an attacker inject risky search commands into a form token.

With the easy availability of tools and knowledge, cyberattacks have run rampant, putting pressure on organizations to better defend themselves. Security is a continuous process that grows over time — exactly why organizations need to create a strong foundation. Two important questions every organization has asked themselves: Where do we start, and have we done enough?

Cyber hygiene has become a highly visible topic in all business segments. Creating software and new features happens at a very fast pace — requiring lots of internal processes and operations to keep this up to date. However, it's also very important to be concerned with the fundamentals of information security in order to keep the company's digital assets protected. In this post, we'll discuss in detail the concept of cyber hygiene and some good practices to follow.