Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Beyond the disturbing images of the invasion of Ukraine that began February 24 are the invisible cyberattacks that preceded it and continue to be waged on Ukraine by Russian state-sponsored and other threat actors, which also threaten the West. Vedere Labs, Forescout’s threat intelligence and research team, is closely monitoring the evolution of cyber activities connected to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) is a cloud security solution used to manage identities and cloud permissions through the principle of least privilege (POLP). CIEM uses machine learning and analytics to detect anomalies in account permissions within multi-cloud environments.

A reverse proxy server (or reverse proxy) facilitates a user’s requests to a web server/application server and the server’s response. A load balancer receives user requests, distributes them accordingly among a group of servers, then forwards each server response to its respective user. From the brief definitions above, it’s clear that reverse proxies and load balancers have some overlapping functionalities.

We’re excited to announce that infrastructure as code (IaC) and container security are joining code and open source dependency security in the free Snyk plugin for JetBrains IDEs. As of today, developers using JetBrains IDEs can secure their entire application with a click of a button. Snyk Security for JetBrains increases code security and reduces time spent on manual code reviews by empowering developers to find and fix issues within their JetBrains IDEs.

If your enterprise is like most of Forward Networks’ customers, then your IT shop oversees a sizable cloud estate. You probably have hundreds of accounts, projects, or subscriptions across different cloud vendors. There are tons of related objects too — virtual machines, firewalls, transit gateways, subnets, and more. And cloud-native apps? Maybe you hundreds of those in use or development as well.

Security teams are being prevented from doing their best work. While understaffing and low budgets have always been challenges for any type of team, security teams are uniquely affected by repetitive, manual tasks, which in turn keep them from working on higher-impact projects that contribute to their organization’s overall security posture.

We are a couple of days late with the developer roll up for February but it is only because we are so busy! This is a huge update despite it being for the shortest month of the year, and we are not done yet: expect some even bigger announcements throughout March.

It’s that time of the year again. The annual and dreaded IT and security audit is ramping up. You just received the documentation list and need to pull everything together. You have too much real work to do, but you need to prove your compliance posture to this outsider. Using log management for compliance monitoring and documentation can make audits less stressful and time-consuming.