Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In a significant stride towards strengthening cybersecurity practices and protecting the nation’s digital future, the White House has issued a formal National Cybersecurity Implementation Plan, and named the 5 pillars that it believes are critical to successfully implementing its cybersecurity strategy.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on various technology solutions to drive their success. However, managing multiple point solutions can become overwhelming, often requiring different partners or Managed Service Providers (MSPs). At Xalient, we understand these challenges and have developed a robust partner ecosystem to simplify and enhance the technology experience for our customers.

Imagine, if you will, that you are the esteemed ruler of a vast digital dominion, and your applications are the lifeblood of your realm. Yet, in the boundless expanse of cyberspace, there lurk dragons of the most fearsome kind—cyber threats, data breaches, and hackers. You require a champion, a Managed Application Security Provider (MASP), to safeguard your kingdom. But how, pray tell, does one select the right one?

Microservices security is a growing concern for businesses in the face of increasing cyber threats. With application layer attacks being a leading cause of breaches, it’s more important than ever to safeguard the HTTP-based communication between microservices within a Kubernetes cluster. Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to address this specific challenge, but Calico WAF offers a unique solution.

PCI version 4.0 was released in March 2022, and all organizations that must be compliant with the regulation have a deadline of March 31, 2024 to do so. So, what does the new version say about pen testing? According to Requirement 11 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), pen testing is required for organizations and entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data.

We recently published a blog post detailing how threat actors could leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT to assist in attacks targeting operational technology (OT) and unmanaged devices. In this blog post, we highlight why healthcare organizations should be particularly worried about this.

The aviation industry relies on a complex web of players and digital systems to fly passengers safely around the world. Billions of data points flow across this vast interconnected ecosystem – from cloud-based ticketing apps and customer experience portals, to third-party vendors and technology systems, to airport ground operations and in-flight aircraft.

An application’s attack surface is the sum of points where it might be vulnerable to bad actors. It consists of all the paths in and out of the application. Identifying vulnerabilities is vital to mitigating threats because any access point is a potential entry point for an attack. An attack surface analysis, which is critical to this mitigation strategy, is the process of identifying and assessing the potential vulnerabilities and risks in a software system or network.

Deserialization is the process of converting data from a serialized format, such as JSON or binary, back into its original form. Swift provides multiple protocols allowing users to convert objects and values to and from property lists, JSON, and other flat binary representations. Deserialization can also introduce unsuspecting security vulnerabilities in a user’s codebase that attackers could exploit.

As your organization's attack surface expands—spanning across the cloud, remote locations, and interconnected digital supply chains—the potential for cyber risk exposure grows. Implementing a proactive cybersecurity exposure management program can enhance your understanding of your organization's cyber risk posture and facilitate informed decision-making about how to best allocate investments and resources.