Since the 1990s, the federal government has been issuing guidelines and recommendations for security via their 800-Series Special Publications. While some of those guidelines became mandates, things have largely inched forward, instead of making any dramatic leaps. OMB’s new memorandum M-22-09, “Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles,” is changing this pattern, and setting deadlines for implementation across the government.
A core challenge for threat detection engineering is reproducing common attacker behavior. Several open source and commercial projects exist for traditional endpoint and on-premise security, but there is a clear need for a cloud-native tool built with cloud providers and infrastructure in mind. To meet this growing demand, we’re happy to announce Stratus Red Team, an open source project created to emulate common attack techniques directly in your cloud environment.
In January 2022, Microsoft disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability for Internet Information Server (IIS) identified as CVE-2022-21907, which they have subsequently reported as wormable. Through Microsoft, Corelight Labs was able to review a proof of concept for an attack against the vulnerability. This blog presents an open source detection method that Corelight Labs is releasing to detect exploit attempts of CVE-2022-21907.
The Splunk SURGe team loves to automate and simplify mundane tasks. Through rapid response blogs, we provide context and analysis on late breaking security events that affect everyone, not just Splunk customers. We are firm believers that through shared knowledge and experience we can help the masses better understand the threat landscape and how they can improve their security posture.