Malware as a Service is the unlawful lease of software and hardware from the Dark Web to carry out cyber attacks. The threat actors who use this service are provided with botnet services and technical support by the MaaS owners. This service opens doors to anyone with minimal computer skills to use and distribute pre-made malware. The data that is stolen is often sold to the highest bidder or left for the service subscribers. MaaS is an illegal version of Software as a Service (SaaS).

Is your security tool an island? Does it do its singular task with little more to offer than what it says on the package? Too many security offerings behave as singular entities, forcing you to constantly perform task switching to complete a job. If you are using a robust tool, then you may not be taking full advantage of its capabilities. Many capabilities of a good tool can be broadened with the use of an Application Programming Interface (API)

It may be the shortest month, but February brought no shortage of bad behavior by cybercriminals. In our latest cyber attack roundup of the ever-thriving world of cybercrime, we look at a disturbing theft from one of the United States’ most secretive government organizations, a long-running ransomware tie-up for a major media company, a never-ending nightmare for a security-minded internet company, and the latest of many breaches for one of the backbones of the modern web.

Intelligent Orchestration takes the complexity out of DevSecOps by delivering the right tests, at the right time, to the right people. The modern software development life cycle is characterized by rapid DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Facebook delivers between 50,000 and 60,000 Android builds each day. Amazon reportedly deploys new software to production every second, and the Netflix DevOps team deploys new releases 100 times each day.

February’s product update includes many exciting announcements from Vanta. We announced Custom Frameworks and Controls and other improvements to the Vanta experience: ‍ ‍