Cloud misconfigurations can cause devastating financial and reputational damage to organizations. Yet, such undesirable circumstances can be avoided by understanding the common misconfiguration errors and mitigating them before malicious actors can exploit them. Ava Chawla, AlgoSec’s Global Head of Security provides some valuable insights on cloud misconfigurations and offers useful tips on how to avoid them.
At LimaCharlie, we believe that open-source tools have a crucial role to play in the security industry. This conviction stems, in part, from our company history: LimaCharlie started out as an open-source endpoint detection and response (EDR) project. But beyond that, we think that the future of cybersecurity will be marked by the values of open-source tech; by a trend towards greater openness and transparency.
Everything on the internet has a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that uniquely identifies it — allowing Internet users to gain access to files and other media. For instance, this article has a unique URL that helps search engine optimization (SEO) crawlers index it for users to find. The first definition of the URL syntax is in the 1994 Request for Comments (RFC) 1738. Since then, the structure of URLs has gone through many revisions to improve their security.
This is the fourth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. With new headlines every day about organizations that have been targeted by cyberattackers, it’s not surprising that 75 percent of organizations assume they’re likely to have a breach in the next three years.
With over 300 vendors exhibiting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 (which is the long and official conference name), there was no shortage of early-stage vendors (230 at the silver and startup sponsor level) to visit for the 7000 attendees. Observability and security solutions were popular for the early-stage exhibitors.
Earlier this year, Splunk sponsored the report, "SOC 2025: The Future of Security Operations Centers" from Securosis, which is based on previously published blogs by analyst and president Mike Rothman (now with Techstrong Research).
Homomorphic encryption brings a whole new paradigm to encrypting data. In this article, I’ll explain homomorphic encryption, including.
Compliance is an essential aspect of every organization, and in business terms, it entails ensuring that organizations of all sizes, and their personnel, comply with national and international regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX. When guaranteeing compliance, many firms frequently overlook security. Gary Hibberd states that compliance with laws or regulations is only the starting point for cybersecurity.
Every year has been an unfortunate year for online privacy for the past few years. Data breaches and social engineering attacks are at an all-time high, and the concept of online data privacy is challenged to its core, with millions of users being affected every month. IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report highlighted that the average data breach cost increased 2.6%, from USD 4.24 million in 2021 to USD 4.35 million in 2022.
