Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The abuse of Google Drive to deliver malicious content continues, and two recent examples remind us how the flexibility of this cloud storage tool can be easily weaponized by malicious actors. And the spectrum of content that can be distributed, and victims that can be targeted is surprising.

In part two of a four-part series, Clint Pollock, principal solutions architect at Veracode, details how to use Veracode from the command line in the Cloud9 IDE to submit a static pipeline scan. Check out the video and step-by-step instructions below. It’s Clint Pollock, principal solutions architect, back for part two of our four-part series on using Veracode from the command line in Cloud9 IDE.

“Why focus on building your personal brand?” This was the first question that Elana Anderson, Chief Marketing Officer at Veracode, asked during her presentation Plotting the Course for Your Personal Brand at the recent Executive Women’s Forum (EWF). Anderson, a lifelong student of marketing, and a former analyst at Forrester Research, has a deep understanding of the importance of both corporate and personal brands and the steps necessary to both build and maintain a brand.

If the UK Government gets its way, IT service vendors and other cloud-based service providers may soon be required to adopt new measures to strengthen their cybersecurity, amid rising concerns about supply chain risks. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has floated plans to make mandatory compliance with the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Assessment Framework, which provides guidance for organisations responsible for vitally important services and activities.

Cloud-native transformations come with many security and troubleshooting challenges. Real-time intrusion detection and the prevention of continuously evolving threats is challenging for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes. Due to the ephemeral nature of pods, it is difficult to determine source or destination endpoints and limit their blast radius. Traditional perimeter-based firewalls are not ideal fit for Kubernetes and containers.

CloudFabrix solution provides a holistic approach for enterprises to implement proactive operations with the objective of eliminating/reducing critical incidents and improving customer satisfaction. The solution primarily relies on applying regression/forecasting models on any time-series data to detect and forecast anomalies. One of the unique features of the solution is the ability to convert unstructured data such as logs/incidents/alerts into time-series data to be used for running prediction models.

On Saturday November 13th, hundreds of thousands of recipients received an email from the FBI with the subject line of “Urgent: Threat actor in systems.” Thankfully for the recipients, it turned out the threat described in these emails wasn’t real as, unfortunately, the FBI had suffered an external email breach resulting in fake warning messages being sent out.

A few months ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a draft framework for ransomware risk management. But it's not the only publication on such threats, as the institute has also produced a guide recently on how MSPs should protect data from ransomware and other data loss events.

DevSecOps stands for Development, Security and Operations. This is a practice aimed to automate or design security integration throughout the software development lifecycle or workflow. Nowadays, collaborative frameworks and projects that share security protocols from end to end are really common, so DevSecOps practices attempt to emphasize building infrastructure with a strong security foundation and stable automation workflow and phases. Watch the video below to learn more about Securing DevSecOps.

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) enterprise recently announced that Splunk is the winner of its third prize challenge in the Artificial Intelligence Applications to Autonomous Cybersecurity (AI ATAC) Challenge series.