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Friday Flows Episode 27: Disabling AWS User from Hunters Alert with Jira Prompt

We're excited to bring you another workflow from the Tines library and to introduce your new Friday Flows host Cameron Higgs! The legendary Blake Coolidge is handing over the reins for a season but he'll be back on your screens before too long. In this episode, Conor Dunne walks Cameron through a workflow that pulls leads related to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment flagged by Hunters and searches for users with unauthorized permissions.

What is Hashing and How Does It Work in Cyber Security?

Hashing transforms a key or set of characters into a unique value from the original input, all for cybersecurity data validation and integrity checking. Hashing is a one-way process based on creating a value to associate with a specific data set. Security solutions providers like IDStrong use the highest level of hashing and encryption to protect their users' information. Organizations like IDStrong understand how critical safeguarding their consumer’s credentials is.

The Challenges of Full Network Visibility and How a Network Digital Twin Can Help

In today’s complex IT environments, maintaining full network visibility is a daunting task. Network segmentation, while essential for security, often complicates the process of obtaining a comprehensive view of the entire network infrastructure. Federal IT departments charged with the responsibility of keeping networks mission-ready, face significant hurdles in visualizing connectivity, ensuring security zone segmentation, and performing complete path searches across segmented domains.

Introducing Teleport VNet

Simplify Secure Access with Teleport VNet! Discover how Teleport VNet revolutionizes connecting to TCP applications through Teleport. This video guide walks you through: What is VNet and how it works Setting up VNet on macOS using Teleport Connect Connecting to TCP apps seamlessly Using VNet with tsh command-line tool Troubleshooting tips and best practices Learn how VNet automatically proxies connections, enhancing security without compromising ease of use. Perfect for DevOps, sysadmins, and anyone working with remote TCP applications.

Friday Flows Episode 28: Use AI to create cases and act on CrowdStrike alerts

In today’s Friday Flows, Conor Dunne, from the Tines Labs team, walks us through a new story using AI to create cases and act on CrowdStrike alerts. As is the case with many alerts, there’s a lot of information, but it’s not always very clear. He first uses AI to simplify & normalize the data. Once that is done & a case is created, we can also use AI to act as a security analyst and respond with one of four actions: Suspend a user account Isolate a host Block a URL Alert the security team using PagerDuty.

Australian Cyber Security Strategy for Hardening

Australia aims to be the world leader in cyber security by 2030 using the Australian Cyber Security Strategy that was released on 22 November 2023. With the cost of cybercrime on Australian businesses growing by up to 14% per annum, the Cyber Security Strategy seeks to improve cyber security, manage cyber risks and better support citizens and Australian businesses to manage their cyber environment by using six cyber shields and actions to be taken.

Reveal Your Network's Hidden Weaknesses with KnowBe4's BreachSim Data Exfiltration Simulator

As cyber threats evolve, the target has become crystal clear: your data. A staggering 90% of ransomware attacks now include a data exfiltration component. With this in mind, KnowBe4 has introduced a robust free tool, BreachSim, to identify your network's vulnerabilities and shore up your cyber defenses. Financial losses, reputation damage, intellectual property theft, regulatory repercussions and operational disruptions are just a few of the harsh consequences of data exfiltration assaults. KnowBe4 BreachSim can help you nip these risks in the bud.

How to de-risk patching third party software packages

There are several steps your organization must take to protect itself from potentially exploitable packages. First, you’ll need to carefully review and triage the package vulnerabilities that present risk to your organization, then you’ll need to patch each one. Patching a package may sound easy, but doing so without breaking your product can be tricky. ‍ Before patching, you may review the changelog between versions. Opening the changelog, however, could further the patch dread.