Arctic Wolf has been recognized as a November 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Strong Performer for Vulnerability Assessment. Gartner categorizes the Vulnerability Assessment market as “vendors that provide capabilities to identify, categorize and manage vulnerabilities. These include unsecure system configurations or missing patches, as well as other security-related updates in the systems connected to the enterprise network directly, remotely or in the cloud.”

Ransomware remains a growing and increasingly problematic threat to organizations across all industries. Posing a significant and increasing threat throughout 2021, ‘Big game hunter’ ransomware campaigns, orchestrated by highly sophisticated organized cybercriminal groups, continue to compromise and extort high-value ransoms from victim organizations across all industries.

In the first half of 2021, average ransomware demands surged by 518%, while payments climbed by 82%. There has been a growing number of attacks in healthcare, with 560 healthcare facilities hit by ransomware last year in the U.S. alone. As new attacks generate headlines each week, we get real-world use cases for how ransomware proliferates in diverse ways, including social engineering attacks and exploitation of vulnerabilities.

As a solution architect at Teleport, I help potential customers get up and running with Teleport, but I am also a power user myself. In my time here, I have picked a few favorite features to help me be more efficient using Teleport, but they aren’t as widely known as they should be. This article hopes to change that and give some love to three little-known features that can enhance your usage of Teleport. I use them every day and hope that after reading this blog, you will too.

More organizations are turning their eyes to edge computing as cloud adoption reaches new heights. Experts predict there will be 55 billion edge devices by 2022 as latency and resilience demands grow and 5G makes these networks possible. While this growth is impressive, it raises several security concerns. Edge computing expands attack surfaces, and data centers lack the resources of traditional cloud infrastructure.

Dealing with hundreds of security alerts on a daily basis is a challenge. Especially when many are false positives that waste our time and all take up too much of our valuable time to sift through. Let me tell you how our security team fixed this, as we built security around the JFrog products. First, let me tell you a little bit about our team.

The high risk associated with newly discovered vulnerabilities in the highly popular Apache Log4j library – CVE-2021-44228 (also known as Log4Shell) and CVE-2021-45046 – has led to a security frenzy of unusual scale and urgency. Developers and security teams are pressed to investigate the impact of Log4j vulnerabilities on their software, revealing multiple technical challenges in the process.

The processing of data is a long-standing debate among governments, businesses, and tech giants alike. Major corporations are identifying data privacy violations and sharing how personal data should be handled and shared ethically. Government entities have framed their own laws on data protection and privacy to protect the personal data of their residents.

Following the Dec. 9, 2021, announcement of the Log4j vulnerability, CVE 2021-44228, CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ has provided customers with unrivaled protection and 24/7/365 vigilance in the face of heightened uncertainty. To OverWatch, Log4Shell is simply the latest vulnerability to exploit — a new access vector among a sea of many others.

This article explores how you can locate Insecure direct object references (IDORs) using Burp Suite. Primarily, there are two ways to test the IDOR flaw, manual and semi-automated. For automation, this article focuses on the Autorize Plugin in Burp Suite.