Third-party assessment organizations, or “3PAOs,” play a crucial role in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, more commonly known as FedRAMP. 3PAOs assess the offerings of cloud service providers (CSPs), to help those CSPs satisfy their FedRAMP compliance obligations. Moreover, the 3PAOs’ input allows U.S. federal agencies to make informed, risk-based decisions about the CSPs those agencies might want to use.

Server hardening refers to the actions performed to reduce the server OS and application attack surface. this is done by changing the default configurations of the system’s components (servers, applications, etc.) and removing unnecessary components. Out of the box, Server OS are more function-oriented rather than for security, which means that unnecessary functions are enabled. Default, insecure configurations reflect a potential attack vector.

If you’re a business executive or a risk leader, you’re likely familiar with “proxy season,” the time of year when public companies hold their annual general meetings. During these meetings, investors have the opportunity to vote on important issues such as the election of board members and executive compensation.

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report: Focus on Finance. The report examines the edge ecosystem, surveying finance IT leaders from around the world, and provides benchmarks for assessing your edge computing plans. This is the 12th edition of our vendor-neutral and forward-looking report. Last year’s focus on finance report documented how we secure the data, applications, and endpoints that rely on edge computing (get the 2022 report).

A system administrator plays a prominent role in maintaining your IT operations, ensuring system performance, and keeping your organization compliant with enterprise data security requirements. System administrators have complete control over the ins and outs of your databases and, in many cases, its underlying physical infrastructure. That’s why you need to pay close attention to admins’ actions to prevent privilege abuse and preserve enterprise data privacy and integrity.

Welcome back to our ongoing series on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). In our previous posts, we’ve covered the various requirements of this critical security standard. Today, we’re going to delve into Requirement 4, which focuses on protecting cardholder data with strong cryptography during transmission over open, public networks.

The JFrog Security research team has recently discovered two security vulnerabilities in X.Org libX11, the widely popular graphics library – CVE-2023-43786 and CVE-2023-43787 (with a high NVD severity CVSS 7.8). These vulnerabilities cause a denial-of-service and remote code execution. X11’s latest versions contain fixes for these vulnerabilities.

Recent ransomware attacks on European organizations have attracted significant attention, primarily due to the involvement of threat actors with Russian connections or origins. Of particular concern is the latest attack on an IT service provider, which has had a profound impact on Swedish companies, government agencies, and municipalities.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news, and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team.

Many organizations have made the decision to use Microsoft products. Their users appreciate the integrated applications provided by M365 and have grown comfortable with them over years of use. However, many administrators find Microsoft products unnecessarily complex to configure and maintain. In addition, some security and governance capabilities are either difficult to configure or simply don’t exist with Microsoft.