In today’s IT environments, operating systems blend into each other. In on-premises and hybrid or public cloud scenarios, Windows clients connect to Linux-based web servers and Kubernetes containers or microservices. There are several Windows-friendly SSH clients available to keep these connections secure.
What comes to mind when you think of security “out-of-the-box?” You’re probably looking for something that will keep users as secure as possible while minimizing implementation friction points to your users. And with ransomware, malware, and phishing threats spreading faster and costing businesses more each year, IT teams must take a full-stack approach to defend against external attacks and internal vulnerabilities, while keeping the business running.
Cloud accounts continue to be a valuable target for cybercriminals: not only do the resources of a compromised IaaS environment grant an immediate profit for the attackers, but the same infrastructure also provides a trusted environment to launch attacks against other targets.
The technical term jailbreaking implies that a locked-down electronic device has been changed to remove restrictions and allow the installation of unauthorised software. Although the term contains breaking, it doesn’t involve breaking anything physically.
We’re happy to announce the open beta of C/C++ security scanning in Snyk Open Source, enabling development and security teams to find and fix known security vulnerabilities in their C/C++ open source code and libraries! Used across various industry verticals and prominent within the gaming, hardware/IoT, and communications industries, C/C++ continues to have a major impact on software development and the technology space as a whole.
Since January 2020, Microsoft Azure SQL DB has grown nearly 3x in popularity. This rapid growth comes as no surprise as Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings have many benefits in the migration strategy from traditional SQL Server database workloads. The Microsoft PaaS offering, Azure SQL Database, takes care of mundane tasks once performed by Infrastructure Engineers such as patching operating systems and applying SQL Server updates or critical security patches.
A decade ago, many were reluctant to move to the cloud. Many felt like they would have to relinquish controls they had within their perimeters. That sentiment has since reversed, where organizations have become more comfortable with cloud technology. The newest concern is about corporate data leaving the cloud, especially as employees expect to work from anywhere. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have enabled people to stay productive from anywhere, but have also amplified security gaps.
In our last blog post How to Pass a FedRAMP Audit for SaaS Providers: Part 1 , we looked at what FedRAMP is and why it matters for SaaS providers. We also discussed a success story with one publicly traded Teleport SaaS customer who used Teleport to pass their FedRAMP audit.
Gartner made an interesting prediction just a few years ago: “Through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.” Practically every single cloud security failure can be fairly described as a misconfiguration of one kind or another. The 2025 end is kind of arbitrary, really; the prediction is likely to be true until the end of time. In my previous article, I discussed targeting these misconfigurations at their root.