Toil — endless, exhausting work that yields little value in DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) — is the scourge of security engineers everywhere. You end up with mountains of toil if you rely on manual effort to maintain cloud security. Your engineers spend a lot of time doing mundane jobs that don’t actually move the needle. Toil is detrimental to team morale because most technicians will become bored if they spend their days repeatedly solving the same problems.

The attacks came from all corners in the past month, as cybercriminals used administrative access codes, stolen internal data, laser-focused programming tools, and even humble job applications to worm their way into organizations' inner workings. Let's look at some of the strange and sinister innovations that shaped the world of cybercrime this April.

Data theft, denial-of-service, ransomware—the world of cyber threats has never been more dangerous, in large part because there’s never been more vulnerabilities.

In this blog, we outline the benefits of opting for a managed SOC instead of setting up and running your own in-house SOC.

Over the past week, threat actors have started scanning for and opportunistically exploiting CVE-2022-29464--a remote code execution vulnerability in multiple WSO2 products used to integrate application programming interfaces (API), applications, and web services. CVE-2022-29464 vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 and severity of Critical which allowed unauthenticated and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the following products.

While every sector of the economy experiences cyber attacks, the oil and gas industry is a particularly enticing target because there are inherent weaknesses in its rapidly expanding digital landscape. It's also an industry that can't afford to go offline at any time, which means cybercriminals can force quick action from those they attack.

Proactively finding and eliminating advanced threats through threat hunting is a growing necessity for many organizations, yet few have enough resources or skilled employees to do it effectively. For those who do have an active threat hunting program, the process is often manual and time consuming. With cloud security automation, however, you can implement rules that automatically adjust your security policies based on the latest threat data.

Cryptocurrency, the next generation of money. Adored by luminaries from Elon Musk to Snoop Dogg. Now the official currency of El Salvador, and a funding source for Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion. But is crypto really all that it seems? Cryptocurrency has tremendous potential to address a host of the world’s financial issues: from limited access to financial resources, to ineffective and costly payment and transfer services.

If you help to manage cloud environments, you’re probably familiar with the concept of identity lifecycle management. Identity lifecycle management helps you keep track of who is allowed to do what within your cloud. But merely understanding identity lifecycle management isn’t enough to administer modern cloud identities effectively. You also need a way to automate identity lifecycle management at massive scale.