We are excited to welcome Windows hosts to the Teleport Access Plane. For the past 5 years we’ve helped refine our Access Plane for Linux hosts, providing short-lived certificate-based access, RBAC and developer-friendly access to resources. As we’ve rolled Teleport to larger organizations, we found that people wanted the same convenience and security of Teleport but for Windows hosts.
Editor's Note: As leader of our customer success team, Yadhu works directly with our users and their leadership to solve real-world technology problems. This blog is the first of a new series featuring how our customers are using the Forward Enterprise platform to deliver business value. Enterprise IT teams around the world are frustratingly familiar with the process of vendor contract reconciliation, the annual process of ensuring that the support contracts for devices in the network are accurate.
On December 9, 2021, a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j 2.x was discovered. This vulnerability is of great concern because if it’s successfully exploited, attackers are able to perform a RCE (Remote Code Execution) attack and compromise the affected server. Since we are a cloud-based Software Composition Analysis (SCA) provider, we have useful customer data that gives insight into the scope of the Log4j vulnerability.
On December 9th 2021, Apache published a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) for Apache Log4j being referred to as “Log4Shell.” This vulnerability has been classified as “Critical” with a CVSS score of 10, allowing for Remote Code Execution with system-level privileges. If you are currently working to identify instances of this vulnerability, Tripwire can help.
