Every day that an application is anything less than ‘fully secure’ is a day for a potential data breach. Consumer data, sensitive business information, monetary transactions, and business reputation; everything is at stake. Investing in effective web application security is the best and only way to mitigate the risk of financial losses and reputational damage for businesses. This blog presents a comprehensive blueprint for implementing best practices in application security.

In a new threat briefing, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs details an exploitation campaign targeting organizations running Fortinet’s FortiClient EMS which is vulnerable to CVE-2023-48788. We are designating this campaign Connect:fun because of the use of ScreenConnect and Powerfun as post-exploitation tools – our first-ever named campaign.

A craftsman requires the appropriate skills and tools to work in tandem in order to create a masterpiece. While tools are an important enabler in the process of creating the best piece of work possible, the process also requires relevant experience and expertise on the part of the craftsman. Much like craftsman’s toolbox, a pen tester’s toolbox has wide variety of pen tester tools to work with based on the business objective.

Some of the challenges when adopting DevOps security, also known as DevSecOps, are placing too much focus on tools rather than processes, cultural resistance, weak access controls and poor secrets management. While implementing DevOps security comes with its challenges, there are several best practices organizations can follow to make its implementation as effective and seamless as possible, including proper change management, combating secrets sprawl and following the principle of least privilege.

The internet has become an indispensable part of daily work, enabling greater flexibility, productivity, and communication. However, connecting to the internet introduces new challenges, particularly in terms of security. With cyber threats evolving constantly, organizations face the daunting task of protecting their users and network from a multitude of risks, including phishing websites, malware downloads, and access to sites that violate acceptable use policies.

If you spend quite a bit of time in the command line, working with Docker images and containers locally to build and test them, you might be in the mood for some power-user Docker commands. We're skipping the basics and diving straight into the lesser-known yet highly effective commands that can significantly improve your Docker experience.

With Teleport 15.2, we’ve added a preview for Teleport Workload Identity. Teleport Workload Identity lets teams bootstrap and issue identities to services across heterogeneous environments and organizational boundaries. A core value of Teleport comes from having a central access platform, and we believe that humans and machine access need to join and access using the same zero-trust best practices.

Gartner identified security technology convergence as one of the key trends both in 2022 and 2023 as a necessity to remove complexity in the industry. Especially for Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR), simplification continues to resonate with cyber teams overwhelmed by too many tools and the continuous cutting and pasting from one tool to another.

This is the final post in a series about shadow IT. In this series, we’ve detailed how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and cybersecurity approaches for securely managing it. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download Managing the unmanageable: How shadow IT exists across every team – and how to wrangle it.

Account takeover (ATO) fraud poses a serious and personal threat, especially when it compromises something as critical as your bank account. Imagine the shock and helplessness of discovering you’re suddenly barred from accessing your own financial resources. This violation isn’t just about unauthorized transactions or financial losses; it’s a profound breach of your privacy.