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It's Here! The New Nucleus Security User Interface

At Nucleus Security, our goal has always been to deliver an intuitive and scalable vulnerability management platform. A critical part of this mission is ensuring that its user interface (UI) evolves to meet our customers’ needs. I’m pleased to announce that we recently rolled out an updated UI—an important first step in a series of planned improvements aimed at enhancing our users’ experience with the Nucleus platform.

The Essential Role of CIEM: Stopping Multi-Cloud Identity-based Threats

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multi-cloud environments to take advantage of the flexibility and scalability of different cloud platforms. However, this shift has also introduced a major security challenge: the rise of identity-based threats. With 82% of data breaches now involving cloud-stored data, securing cloud identities has become a critical need. The complexity of managing identities and permissions across multiple cloud platforms only amplifies the risks.

Rackspace Breach Linked to Zero-Day Vulnerability in ScienceLogic SL1's Third-Party Utility

On September 24, 2024, Rackspace, a managed cloud computing company providing cloud hosting, dedicated servers, and multi-cloud solutions, reported an issue with their Rackspace Monitoring product in the ScienceLogic EM7 (ScienceLogic SL1) Portal. Rackspace utilizes the ScienceLogic application as a third-party tool for monitoring certain internal services.

Not All Synthetic Data is the Same: A Framework for Generating Realistic Data

A common misconception about synthetic data is that it’s all created equally. In reality, generating synthetic data for complex, nuanced use cases — like healthcare prescription data — can be exponentially more challenging than building a dataset for weather simulations. The goal of synthetic data isn’t just to simulate but to closely approximate real-world scenarios.

PII Data Classification: Key Best Practices

PII (Personally Identifiable Information) refers to data that can directly or indirectly identify an individual, such as names, addresses, or phone numbers. Protecting PII data is critical, as exposure can result in identity theft, financial fraud, or privacy breaches. With businesses collecting vast amounts of PII, proper PII data classification has become essential to safeguarding sensitive information and complying with data protection regulations.

LLM Security: Leveraging OWASP's Top 10 for LLM Applications

Large Language Models (LLMs) transform how organizations process and analyze vast amounts of data. However, with their increasing capabilities comes heightened concern about LLM security. The OWASP Top 10 for LLMs offers a guideline to address these risks. Originally designed to identify common vulnerabilities in web applications, OWASP has now extended its focus to AI-driven technologies. This is essential as LLMs are prone to unique LLM vulnerabilities that traditional security measures may overlook.

AWS Launches Improvements for Key Quarantine Policy

Recently, AWS expanded the scope of their AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantine policies (v2 and v3) to include new actions. This policy is used by AWS to lock down access keys that they suspect have been compromised. A common example of this process in action is when AWS automatically applies the quarantine policy to any keys found by scanning public GitHub repositories. This proactive protection mechanism can stop compromises before they happen.

All in on flexible and efficient integrations

Our users secure products and services developed by dozens of distributed technical teams. They rely on tools like Detectify to prioritize and triage vulnerability findings onward to development teams to remediate. This process is anything but straightforward, which is why we’re excited to see our users utilize our integration platform in ways that help them work efficiently alongside their tech teams.

Cyberattacks in the education sector up 258% last academic year

Cybercriminals are targeting educational institutions, attracted by the vast amount of sensitive data they handle: student and employee personal information, research, and intellectual property. With tight technology budgets and often weak defenses, many of these organizations are easy prey for increasingly complex cyberattacks, putting their reputation and operations at risk.

The Importance of Security in a Hybrid Work Environment

As hybrid work models become more and more prevalent among businesses, more are adopting hybrid work environments to maximize flexibility and productivity. Unfortunately, however, this creates unique security challenges which must be managed. One critical aspect of hybrid working environments is ensuring sensitive information remains safe. Since more employees work from various locations than before proper security measures - like secure file cabinet locks - must be put in place to safeguard valuable assets such as files.