According to research done by ARMO, 100% of Kubernetes clusters that were tested contained at least one misconfiguration, while 65% had at least one high-severity misconfiguration. 50% of clusters had 14 or more failed security controls. According to Redhat research from 2023, 45% of respondents experienced security incidents or issues related to containers and/or Kubernetes due to misconfigurations.

In a recent security breach, a threat actor with stolen credentials was able to access Okta’s support case management system. That support case management system contained several HAR files, or HTTP Archive files, in support tickets. A HAR file is a JSON-based file format that records and stores detailed information about the interactions between a web browser and a website.

Just a little over a year ago, Vanta went global with the opening of a European headquarters in Dublin as well as an office in Sydney. And over the past several quarters, we’ve accelerated international momentum by scaling investments across the product and business, from opening our EU data centre to rolling out localised product capabilities, in-region technical support, and more.

Octo Tempest threatens global organizations, ransomware activity spikes in September, and Quasar RAT evades detection with DLL sideloading.

In the past month, the Netskope Threat Labs team observed a considerable increase of SharePoint usage to deliver malware caused by an attack campaign abusing Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to deliver a malware named DarkGate. DarkGate (also known as MehCrypter) is a malware that was first reported by enSilo (now Fortinet) in 2018 and has been used in multiple campaigns in the past months.

Unlike in the 1800s when a safety brake increased the public’s acceptance of elevators, artificial intelligence (AI) was accepted by the public much before guardrails came to be. “ChatGPT had 1 million users within the first five days of being available,” shares Forbes.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF) is a robust, adaptable method for managing and mitigating information security risks within government agencies and organizations working with government systems. It integrates security, privacy, and cyber supply chain risk management into the system development life cycle.

On October 31st, Atlassian disclosed a significant security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-22518, affecting all versions of Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server software. This vulnerability, rated with a critical severity score of 9.1 in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), has the potential to result in substantial data loss if exploited by threat actors. Its critical nature arises from its capacity to inflict severe consequences on an organization’s data integrity.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 is a compliance requirement that all Department of Defense (DoD) Contractors (aka, the Defense Industrial Base) will soon have to meet. See my blog Why is CMMC a Big Deal? for more information about the legal implications of CMMC. The CMMC official mandate is expected to be released from rulemaking in the first quarter of 2024 and be in full implementation in the first quarter of 2026.

When I bring up the topic of security ratings to my CISO colleagues, I typically get one of two reactions. The first half complains about misattribution of issues along with reporting fix times (although accuracy has improved). But the other half understand how to leverage this technology to their benefit to make their jobs easier and their organizations safer. Read below to get under the hood of how to leverage the evolving application of this technology to secure your supply chain.