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NIS2 Directive and cyber risk management

The NIS2 Directive, published in December 2022, sets out a series of measures for improving cyber risk management throughout the European Union. All EU member states must apply the Directive as part of national law by October 2024. By the same date, all applicable organizations must comply with the measures set out in NIS2.

Using Mitre Att&CK with threat intelligence to improve Vulnerability Management

MITRE ATT&CK® is a globally accessible knowledge base of 14 adversary tactics and over 500 techniques based on real-world observations. The first model was proposed in 2013 and publicly released in 2015 which has been gathering momentum over the last couple of years.

Control your role! Kubernetes RBAC explored

Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach for controlling which actions and resources in a system are available to different users. Users are assigned roles that grant them permission to use particular system features. Kubernetes has a robust built-in RBAC implementation for authorizing user interactions with your cluster. Setting up RBAC allows you to define the specific actions that users can perform on each Kubernetes object type.

Snyk's 2023 State of Open Source Security: Supply chain security, AI, and more

The 2021 Log4Shell incident cast a bright light on open source software security — and especially on supply chain security. The 18 months following the incident brought a greater focus on open source software security than at any time in history. Organizations like the OpenSSF, AlphaOmega, and large technology companies are putting considerable resources towards tooling and education. But is open source software security actually improving? And where are efforts still falling short?

CVE-2023-35078: Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile

On July 24th, 2023, Ivanti released a security advisory detailing a remote authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-35078) affecting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 10, allows unauthenticated access to specific API paths, which could allow a threat actor to obtain personal identifiable information (PII) such as names, phone numbers, and other mobile device details.

How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as "Zenbleed"

A new flaw in AMD's Zen 2 processors is detailed in this blog post (archive.org snapshot) today, July 24, 2023. The 'Zenbleed' flaw affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, from AMD's EPYC data center processors to the Ryzen 3000 CPUs, and can be exploited to steal sensitive data stored in the CPU, including encryption keys and login credentials.

ISO 27002 puts Threat Intelligence center stage

The ISO 27000 series is an industry standard that has long defined and dictated base-level requirements for organizations’ information security management systems (ISMS). Through more than a dozen standards, the framework helps organizations demonstrate management commitment to their ISMS as they regularly review and improve their systems and procedures.

ModSecurity v3: DoS Vulnerability in Four Transformations (CVE-2023-38285)

ModSecurity is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) engine maintained by Trustwave. This blog post discusses an issue with four transformation actions that could enable a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by a malicious actor. The issue has been addressed with fixes in v3.0.10. ModSecurity v2 is not affected.