Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security analysts have long been challenged to keep up with growing volumes of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, but their struggles have recently grown more acute. Only 46% of security operations leaders are satisfied with their team’s ability to detect threats, and 82% of decision-makers report that their responses to threats are mostly or completely reactive — a shortcoming they’d like to overcome.

Detecting when an unauthorized third party is accessing your AWS account is critical to ensuring your account remains secure. For example, an attacker may have gained access to your environment and created a backdoor to maintain persistence within your environment. Another common (and more frequent) type of unauthorized access can happen when a developer sets up a third-party tool and grants it access to your account to monitor your infrastructure for operations or optimize your bill.

Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the most important parts of the modern digital business. Unfortunately, when it comes to cybercrime, it can also be one of the weakest. The Cybersecurity newsletter, The Hacker News, have highlighted this in detail, noting interest from across the digital industry in addressing the holes created by misconfigured SaaS setups.

In yet another example of VPN appliance vulnerabilities being actively exploited by threat actors, 20 April 2021 saw the publication of a critical Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance vulnerability, CVE-2021-22893, allowing an authentication bypass that leads to an unauthenticated threat actor gaining the ability to remotely execute arbitrary code on a PCS gateway.

Today we’re excited to announce a new product tier—Snyk Team—designed to help development teams empower themselves to build applications securely, together! No development team wants to write an application that gets hacked—but many don’t have the skills or budget to use the application security tools currently offered in the market.

Security operations is now a critical business function tasked with securing digital transformation initiatives, to effectively mitigate evolving attacks and expanding attack surfaces, handle complexity and tool proliferation while teams are continuing to be virtual and distributed.

Social Engineering, in the context of cybersecurity, is the use of deception to convince individuals into relinquishing their personal information online. This information is then exploited in cyberattacks. Most social engineering campaigns target employees because they could be manipulated into gateways to an organization’s sensitive data. The success of these campaigns relies on a lack of cybersecurity awareness training in the workplace.