The past few years have witnessed a rapid surge in the use of SaaS applications across various industries. But with this growth comes a significant challenge: managing security and assessing risk in application connectivity.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses proactively seek innovative ways to optimize their networks, enhance operational efficiency, and reduce costs. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) emerges as a transformative technology that leads the charge. NFV revolutionizes traditional, hardware-based network functions by converting them into flexible, software-based solutions.

Networks today are different from what they were ten years ago, and one could argue that depending on the organization you work for, these networks are different from those just a few years ago. The rise of hybrid networks has made troubleshooting these networks that much more complex. Before, it could have been a hub and spoke design from your end users to the resources they need to access in one of the data centers.

Depending on what the world’s threat actors are up to and whether their activity is detected, CISA may issue a cybersecurity advisory (CSA) every few days or have nothing for a month. It’s hard to predict, and you never know what’s coming your way. One thing is certain: If you managed cybersecurity for a critical infrastructure entity and this #StopRansomware: BianLian Ransomware Group CSA landed in your inbox, you would probably want to take swift action.

On May 31, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs uncovered a significant incident where threat actors exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer software, which resulted in unauthorized access to and exfiltration of private data, as well as privilege escalation. MOVEit Transfer is a widely adopted managed file transfer (MFT) solution that enables organizations to securely exchange files with their business partners and customers.

During a red team assessment for a client, Charles Fol and Dany Bach from LEXFO, discovered a heap overflow bug in Fortigate’s SSL VPN that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution on Fortigate instances. This vulnerability is reachable without authentication, and can be used to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems, which could lead to a complete compromise of the system.

Last month, Corelight had the distinct privilege of joining Cisco, NetWitness, Palo Alto Networks, Arista, and our internet service provider, MyRepublic, to provide availability and network security overwatch to the Black Hat Asia network in Singapore. This marked our first appearance in the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC).