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February 2024

10 GitHub Security Best Practices

The security landscape is constantly changing. As such, this blog has been updated to reflect the risks developers and security teams face today and how to overcome them. In our rapidly advancing, code-dominated digital landscape, safeguarding your codebase takes center stage. GitHub is the go-to platform for code sharing and version control in the developer community. However, given its widespread adoption, GitHub is not immune to many of the security challenges that developers face daily.

CrowdStrike Defends Against Azure Cross-Tenant Synchronization Attacks

As Microsoft Azure continues to gain market share in the cloud infrastructure space, it has garnered attention from adversaries ranging from hacktivist and eCrime threat actors to nation-state adversaries. Recent attacks on Microsoft by cloud-focused threat actors like COZY BEAR are becoming more frequent and garnering huge attention.

Pulumi VS Terraform: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your IaC Tool

In the cloud-native era, Infrastructure as Code (IaC; read more about it in this blog here) has become the de-facto standard for managing cloud infrastructure, and more. While Terraform has been around for almost a decade, and it had been the one-and-only cloud-agnostic option for a couple of years before competitors emerged, now the landscape is a whole lot more diverse: we've got AWS CDK, CDK for Terraform, and there is a relatively new kid on the block: Pulumi.

Social Engineering Masterstroke: How Deepfake CFO Duped a Firm out of $25 Million

Check out this one line for a moment...“duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations.” In a worrying display of social engineering sophistication, a multinational company was defrauded of $25 million through an intricately planned deepfake scam.

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager & ServiceNow Integration

In this video, we delve into the seamless integration of CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager and ServiceNow IT Service Management. Discover how this integration streamlines and automates end user privilege elevation requests by leveraging existing ServiceNow workflows. By enhancing security measures and operational efficiency, this collaboration between CyberArk and ServiceNow marks a significant advancement in managing and securing privileged access. Watch now to learn more about this powerful integration.

Securing Database Access: DPA Zero Standing Privilege Approach with Native HeidiSQL Utility

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of utilizing CyberArk DPA's capabilities to seamlessly connect to a Postgres database using the HeidiSQL client, leveraging the secure foundation of JIT access approach for enhanced security and efficiency.

PCI DSS and penetration testing

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a set of security controls created to ensure all companies that accept, process, store or transmit credit card data maintain an audit-ready environment. Version 4.0 was published in March 2022; organizations required to be compliant have until March 31, 2024, when compliance must be complete.

A Getting Started Guide to Veracode DAST Essentials

Web applications are one of the most common vectors for attacks, accounting for over 40% of breaches, according to Verizon's Data Breach Report. Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a crucial technique used by development teams and security professionals to secure web applications in the software development lifecycle.

Zero-day Vulnerability - Examples, Detection & Prevention [+ Monthly 0-day Reports]

Unknown threats are the real risk. One such example is, Zero-day vulnerability, having been used in real-time attacks but not yet disclosed by the software vendor. In 2023 alone, 3324 zero-day vulnerabilities were identified in websites protected by AppTrana WAAP, highlighting the urgency of understanding and addressing these risks. This blog delves into the essence of zero-day vulnerabilities, exploring how they operate and crucial best practices to defend against potential exploitation.

Cybersecurity in the Age of Regulation

Cybersecurity breaches are becoming more frequent and more impactful. Adversaries continue to grow stronger, and defenders aren’t always keeping pace. Add in the increasing number of nation-state actors in the threat landscape, and it’s hardly surprising that governments are starting to take a greater role in regulating security. On July 26th, 2023, the U.S.