Our SOC Performance Report found that it takes an average of seven months to fill open SOC positions, and 55% of those doing the hiring are struggling to find qualified staff. As a result, SOC resources are strained, putting the team at risk for fatigue and burnout, which can cause them to miss critical alerts. Research has shown this is a widespread issue, too, as most SOCs waste an average of 10,000 hours annually validating unreliable and incorrect alerts.

Looking to advance your career in the ever-growing cybersecurity field? If so, obtaining the proper certification is a great way to show your knowledge and set yourself apart from the competition. Ever-evolving cyber threats have made it essential for organizations to have an in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity and its best practices. As such, cybersecurity certifications have become highly sought-after qualifications for professionals in the field.

Containerised deployment is widely becoming a standard in every industry, ensuring these containers are protected at every level with a high level of accuracy is one of the most important tasks. Some industry vendors rely solely on the manifest files to provide them with a list of components, others have to manually convert the container image to a TAR archive before scanning, and even then they may only work on the application layer instead of evaluating the entire filesystem.

On January 30, 2023, QNAP Systems Inc. disclosed a new critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to inject malicious code on QNAP NAS devices that were exposed to the internet. QNAP has stated that the vulnerability is a SQL Injection flaw being tracked as CVE-2022-27596 and can be abused in low-complexity attacks by unauthenticated malicious remote threat actors without requiring user interaction.

Recent breaches at Uber and Slack highlight the risks of storing secrets in plaintext on disk. But that’s just the way it works, right?

The advent of cloud applications led to a new generation of phishing attacks (named OAuth phishing or consent phishing) where, rather than stealing the user credentials, threat actors aim to obtain an authorization token via a rogue cloud app that allows them to perform harmful activities on the victim’s cloud environment.

With the rise of OpenAI’s GPT-3, ChatGPT and Codex products, as well as GitHub’s CoPilot and numerous competitors, today we’re seeing developers experimenting with AI to help augment their development workflows. While at first these efforts focused on more commonly used programming languages, such as Javascript and Python, the AI use cases are now expanding to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) configurations.

Regardless of how last year went, a few things probably come to mind that you’d like to leave in 2022. Maybe it’s a bad habit you’d like to drop or a mindset you’d like to change. But speaking of ditching bad habits, some poor cloud application security practices shouldn’t carry over to 2023 either!

Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, targeted, and complex. When it comes to sophisticated attacks, one of the most commonly seen tactics is Lateral Movement. During lateral movement, many attackers try impersonating a legitimate user by abusing admin tools (e.g., SMB, SAMBA, FTP, WMI, WinRM, and PowerShell Remoting) to move laterally from system to system in search of sensitive information.