Observability (logs, traces, metrics) is a core tenet to building strong software systems. Logs are used to debug issues and check on system activity, traces provide valuable insights into system performance and architecture, and metrics allow engineering teams to closely track business metrics within their systems.

As businesses and health organizations seek to strengthen cybersecurity, they’re turning frequently to compliance frameworks to help prioritize, guide, and improve decision-making and implementation. Two of the more popular compliance frameworks are the NIST CSF and the ISO 27001. For IT teams seeking to better understand the difference between these frameworks, as well as which is the ideal tool for their business, here’s what to know.

The federal government enacted the FedRAMP regulation in December 2011 to enable executive agencies and departments to use an assessment method based on risk and cost-effectiveness when adopting cloud technologies. A FedRAMP readiness assessment is mandatory for cloud products and solutions providers seeking to receive an Authorization to Operate (ATO). FedRAMP ATO indicates that a provider’s hosted information and systems meet FedRAMP requirements.

At Bearer, we often get asked: “How do you detect and classify data just by scanning the source code?” To answer that, we need to answer two important questions.

Though Kubernetes has grown in popularity, it still has a steep learning curve that can make it hard to adopt the technology. Those who can’t get past this initial hurdle are often left behind in the fast-paced field of software development. This article will introduce YAML files for Kubernetes object configuration. YAML provides a way to declaratively configure your Kubernetes applications, and these declarative files allow you to effectively scale and manage your applications.

In our increasingly cloud-centric world, security teams are under pressure to perform effective cloud security monitoring to defend against fast-moving threats. That’s why Devo is pleased to announce the availability of approximately 50 cloud security detections for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to our Security Operations application. The new detections enable organizations to monitor their cloud infrastructure, look for areas of risk, or respond to threats as they emerge.

Created by threat intelligence specialists from Kroll and Redscan, the new report, Q4 2021 Threat Landscape: Software Exploits Abound, explores key insights and trends from over 3,200 cyber incidents handled worldwide in 2021. In early December 2021, Redscan’s analysis of the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the Common Vulnerability Database (CVD) repository of the U.S.

With the outbreak of the pandemic, companies and institutions around the world have fallen prey to cybercriminals who have lured their victims through COVID-19. During the first four months of 2020, INTERPOL detected 907,000 cases of spam emails, 737 malware incidents, and 48,000 malicious URLs, all received by just one company, using coronavirus as bait.

There’s no denying it: ransomware is now big business. Entire supply chains exist where organized criminals specialize in one or more parts of the crime. The growing popularity of Ransomware-as-a-Service significantly lowers the technical bar of entry for cybercriminals. Some specializations include gaining access to credentials, penetrating hosts, identifying data, delivering encryption payloads, and accepting and distributing the ransom money.

In Q4 2021, Kroll observed a 356% increase in common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) or zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited for initial access when compared to Q3 2021. With 2021 being a record year for vulnerabilities, this finding may not be surprising, but it underscores the risk to organizations in the wake of high-profile vulnerability notifications - and the speed with which cybercriminals are able to exploit weaknesses in companies’ defenses.