Vulnerability management is becoming increasingly important to companies due to the rising threat of cyber security attacks and regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-731 and more. Vulnerability management is a comprehensive process implemented to continuously identify, evaluate, classify, remediate, and report on security vulnerabilities.
Owners and operators of Operational Technology (OT) environments are being increasingly tasked with providing more information and security controls for their OT Environments, whether those demands are driven by the board, executive orders, or new regulations. One of the biggest fallacies that we encounter when our customers begin monitoring their OT environment is the idea that OT systems are air gapped and completely isolated from IT systems.
This is part 2 of Trustwave’s 2022 Cybersecurity Predictions blog series. In 2021, the cybersecurity industry was truly tested. Most notably, we uncovered the deeper fallout from the SolarWinds attacks, combatted the proliferation of advanced ransomware gangs and a surge in vulnerability exploitation, and saw fragile supply chain and critical infrastructure more targeted by attackers than ever.
Threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics and techniques in the attack lifecycle and infiltrate company infrastructure. While most organizations are already performing vulnerability management based on CVEs by MITRE, few have considered the powerful correlations between threat intelligence, CVEs and the ATT&CK® framework. In this blog we highlight the benefits of bringing them together to drive focused remediation and improve cyber defense.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued a directive to federal agencies and other public bodies requiring them to take steps to reduce their risk of exploited vulnerabilities. CISA highlights the startling finding that hackers are exploiting up to 290 different vulnerabilities in these agencies.
Over the past few years organizations have been shifting security tools and practices left to ensure that application security is addressed from the earliest stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC). These efforts also increasingly cover open source components, which comprise up to 80% of our software products.
Exchange admins now have another exploit to deal with despite still reeling from a number of high profile attacks this year including ProxyLogon and ProxyShell. A new high severity Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit for on-premise Exchange Servers has been published and is being actively exploited in the wild.
New software and assets introduced into your network are, by default, configured to be multifunctional and convenient to use, but they’re not always the most secure. IT teams also make constant changes to systems’ configurations, leading to inevitable security gaps. Maintaining secure configurations in assets and software is essential for organizations that want to avoid potential cyberattacks or face costly audit penalties.
The most common application vulnerabilities will come as no surprise to cyber security experts. If we know about them, why do they persist?
We’re pleased to announce improved support for.NET applications in Snyk Open Source, allowing developers to fix vulnerabilities in.NET dependencies with the help of actionable advice and automated pull requests! As of the time of writing, NuGet, the Microsoft-supported and de-facto standard package manager for.NET, has 276,266 unique packages, downloaded on average more than a billion times a week!
