Adversaries’ persistent efforts to evade advancements in threat awareness and defense have shaped a cyber threat landscape dominated by their stealthy, fast-moving tactics. As they expand into the cloud environments where most organizations now operate, the need to hunt and remediate threats has become crucial.

The application security landscape is shifting as organizations move away from a fragmented ecosystem of point solutions towards a unified platform such as the Mend AppSec Platform. Leveraging these platform-specific strengths brings numerous advantages: streamlined workflows, a cross-product workflow engine, a consolidated data model that enhances security posture, and developers that can focus fully on innovation.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! How much?! Wow…

Software platforms are being used more and more by companies to run their operations, store private data, and talk to customers. Ransomware attacks are becoming more common because people depend on them so much. One of the scariest types of hacks is the CDK ransomware attack, which is aimed at companies that use software from CDK Global.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has quickly become popular and has changed the way businesses work by making them more scalable, flexible, and efficient. Cloud-based apps are convenient, but they also come with the duty of keeping them safe from cyber threats. As more businesses move private data to the cloud, security for SaaS has become very important. This is because the data is vulnerable to risks like cyberattacks, data breaches, and unauthorized access.

Envoy has carved out a critical role in cloud-native computing, becoming increasingly prevalent as the default ingress controller for Kubernetes. This high-performance proxy, developed by Lyft and now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s arsenal, is integral for companies scaling up their Kubernetes deployments. Envoy ensures efficient load balancing, security, and operational agility by managing external access to services within Kubernetes clusters,.

In a world where attackers are continually devising more sophisticated ways to breach enterprises, the value of automation has become critically important. To make matters worse, today's SOC is grappling with swivel chair movement across various security products, which sometimes includes a standalone automation product.

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The advent and widespread acceptance of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Microsoft Copilot, by organizations and even average consumers has created another surface threat area that cybersecurity teams must come to understand. To help with this process, Trustwave SpiderLabs conducted a Red Team exercise against a licensed version of Microsoft Copilot.

In many standard enterprise applications, consistent logging serves a multitude of purposes. It helps businesses identify and rectify errors, provides valuable analytical insights, and lets you test new solutions. However, this also makes log injections one of the most common ways hackers can hijack or even gain access to sensitive user information.