Taking action on your attack surface requires a complete overview of what is exposed. This includes details such as open – and previously open! – ports, DNS records, and when the asset was last seen. These details help security teams respond more effectively to issues as they occur in production. It’s now possible for Surface Monitoring customers to drill down into an asset with the new Details page, which you can access by selecting an asset from the Attack Surface view.

It’s well known that there’s a pervasive cybersecurity skills shortage. The problem has multiple ramifications. Current cybersecurity teams often deal with consistently heavy workloads and don’t have time to deal with all issues appropriately. The skills shortage also means people who need cybersecurity talent may find it takes much longer than expected to find qualified candidates. Most people agree there’s no single way to address the issue and no fast fix.

Earlier this month, the United Nations (U.N.) released its latest Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR2022). For those of us who assess risk for a living, it is a sobering read.

Ethical hacking is a field within cybersecurity where security experts assume the role of an unauthorized user and attempt to gain access to a private network or computer. These exercises aim to help targets identify any security vulnerabilities that could be exploited in a real cyberattack. Cybersecurity professionals utilize non-invasive methods, such as risk assessments, audits, and security questionnaires, to discover security risks.

Trustwave Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is one of the most important cybersecurity offerings available in the market today, it’s also the reason why Trustwave is rolling out two new levels of service that will enable Trustwave and our business partners fortify the security posture of any business, regardless of size.

In a certificate-based authentication, a user or machine proves their identity to the servers and networks with a certificate that is digitally signed by a certificate authority, a trusted centralized entity responsible for issuing and managing certificates. Many popular servers support certificate-based authentication, but people often opt-in for a password or key-based authentication to avoid certificate management overhead.

For many years and across industries, enterprise risk management (ERM) has always been an important part of any successful business operation. Organizations of all types and sizes face a number of external and internal factors that make it uncertain whether they will achieve their goals; ERM can bring that uncertainty to lower levels. Understanding the risks to your organization can help you make better decisions about how to reduce those risks; that’s where risk management comes in.

Running penetration tests of a mature web application is always a great challenge. Systems are usually well hardened, and scanners fall short of flagging anything interesting, requiring an experienced security engineer to identify vulnerabilities using advanced exploitation methods. On the other side, some applications are going for their first release ever or release after a major code change.

Styra Academy, our online training portal for free courses on OPA, Rego and Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DA), has a new course available: OPA Performance. The primary purpose for OPA within applications is, of course, fine-grained authorization — that is, who can do what and what can do what. Each user request typically requires one or more authorization decisions to be made.

I’m excited to announce the Styra DAS integration with HashiCorp Terraform Cloud via run tasks is now generally available to Styra DAS users! Users can now enforce cloud resource policy guardrails at every step of the DevOps process, including right before Terraform Cloud applies changes to your cloud resources.