The number of newly discovered software vulnerabilities is constantly on the rise, and organizations are struggling to keep up with patching efforts. This is leading to a growing vulnerability backlog and slowing down development and the release of new products. But this growing backlog and the stress it causes is unacceptable. There’s a new way to manage vulnerabilities.
Five years ago this month, the WannaCry ransomware attack encrypted an estimated 230,000 systems running Windows in private and public sector organizations globally, including high-profile companies like FedEx, the NHS and Honda. The financial impact was substantial; Symantec estimated WannaCry caused about $4 billion in losses
Cybersecurity attacks aren’t aimed solely at individual organizations anymore. In a growing number of cases, these incidents are affecting numerous companies within supply chains. Just look at some of the recent cyber events, including the attacks against Solarwinds and Kaseya, and vulnerabilities such as the one discovered in Log4j in late 2021. These incidents reveal weaknesses within supply chains that can lead to repercussions for hundreds or thousands of companies.
In previous posts we’ve expounded on the importance of using a dynamic rather than a static software bill of materials (SBOM), and how these SBOMs can translate into stronger cyber security. Now we want to share our vision of what a dynamic SBOM needs to be. Rezilion’s Dynamic Software Bill of Materials, now generally available for on-premises and cloud environments, is designed to help organizations actively manage security across the entire software development life cycle (SDLC).
By: Ofri Ouzan, Security Researcher, Rezilion The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered several vulnerabilities in the `networkd-dispatcher` that are identified as CVE-2022-29799 and CVE-2022-29800 and dubbed as Nimbuspwn. The vulnerabilities were identified by listening to messages on the System Bus while performing code reviews and dynamic analysis on services that run as root.
The days of security seen as the bane of software developers are over—or at least they should be. Building strong security into products cannot be an afterthought at a time when vulnerabilities are leading to wide scale cyber attacks. The fact is, security can and should be a competitive advantage for companies producing software.
In a previous post, we described why a software bill of materials (SBOM) needs to be dynamic in order to be valuable for organizations. One of the biggest sources of that value is the enhanced security that dynamic SBOMs can deliver for organizations An SBOM creates a foundational data layer on which further security tools, policies and practices can be built. The U.S.
The software bill of materials (SBOM) is being widely touted as a way to ensure the security and integrity of software products. This is an accurate assessment, but not all SBOMs are created equal. Specifically, those that are dynamic are far more useful and effective than those that are not. In fact, SBOMs that are not dynamic—able to easily and automatically account for the constant change swirling around the software landscape—are of minimal use.
