On Thursday, May 12, 2022, Zyxel released a patch advisory for an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in their line of Firewall products tracked as CVE-2022-30525. The exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a threat actor to modify specific files and execute code remotely on a vulnerable appliance. Proof of Concept (PoC) exploit code for this vulnerability has been made publicly available via multiple sources.

We are thrilled to announce that Arctic Wolf has made the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, the company’s tenth annual ranking of the most game-changing private companies using technology to advance their industry. This list identifies fast-growing, innovative start-ups and Arctic Wolf is recognized for its revolutionary role in bringing security operations to organizations of all sizes, leading the few cybersecurity companies included on this year’s list.

Another day, another data breach has become a common refrain, in a world saturated with data breaches and other types of data exposures. But over the past few years, a subtle change in the nature of breaches has taken place. We documented some of this change in our analysis of the 100 largest breaches in the 21st century, highlighting that breaches were getting larger and more likely the result of misconfigurations.

Do you know where your users are going on the Internet? Do you know what they’re doing on the public Internet? How are you protecting your enterprise and your users from their cloud activities? These simple questions belie complex problems that can keep security and compliance practitioners up at night. One of the related challenges that organizations face today is controlling access to corporate and private file sharing applications such as Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox.

Software testing is notoriously hard. Search Google for CVEs caused by basic CRLF (newline character) issues and you’ll see thousands of entries. Humanity has been able to put a man on the moon, but it hasn’t yet found a proper way to handle line endings in text files. It’s those subtle corner cases that have a strong tendency of being overlooked by programmers.

Kubernetes is a tool used by many developers and DevOps administrators to deploy and manage containerized applications, and it has become a default tool for container orchestration in many organizations.

If you are an application developer or security analyst, you likely spend a lot of time thinking about your customers’ security. IT operations teams have found many ways to help secure login portals by implementing dual authentication and Single-Sign-On (SSO) portals. Many IT organizations have learned to use SSO and Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to help secure their codebase and employee data. This method is great, assuming that all users are compliant with 2FA.

Zero trust is everyone’s favourite topic at the moment. But underneath its appealing phrasing lies a significant amount of market confusion over exactly what it is. Allow me to bust some myths.

No matter how advanced your Security Operations Center (SOC) is, pre-built Playbook Packs from Splunk can augment your analysts with automation that scales with your organization’s maturity. SplunkⓇ Enterprise Security (ES) users can achieve this scalable automation by using a pre-built Risk Notable Playbook Pack in Splunk SOAR.

The UK’s first cybersecurity strategy was launched in 2009 and outlined that whatever the shape of the cybersecurity mission, it made no sense to silo it away from other aspects of national security. To be effective, it had to be able to take advantage of high-grade intelligence and other security capabilities. The strategy outlined how the country needed to invest more in getting the public and private partnership really working.