Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Today’s threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Attackers are constantly adjusting their tactics and finding new ways to infiltrate organizations with increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal valuable data. As such, businesses and IT professionals must remain up to date on the industry’s latest threat intelligence in order to better understand the current state of this cybersecurity landscape and know their enemies to shore up defenses.

Monitoring container traffic and extracting rich security-centric metadata provides SOC analysts an inviolable source of truth for threat detection and incident investigation. This data complements the deep visibility provided by container agents and broad visibility through monitoring audit logs.

This month, Microsoft announced two vulnerabilities in portmap, which is part of ONC RPC, on Windows systems. This blog will discuss Zeek detection packages for CVE-2022-24491 and CVE-2022-24497 developed by Corelight Labs.

As mentioned in SecurityScorecard’s (SSC) previous Zhadnost blog posts (part one and part two), the DDoS attacks against Ukrainian and Finnish websites do not appear to have a lasting impact, as the sites were back online within hours of the attack.

Many businesses use virtual private networks (VPNs) to provide secure remote access to their systems, but this has increasingly become a liability as more people switch to remote work. The greater demands placed on VPNs to offer safe access can expose organizations and employees to security vulnerabilities. In order to better protect their data and systems, organizations may need to seek alternatives to VPNs.

With cybersecurity asset compliance, it’s not enough to ensure your systems and processes are operating in accordance with security frameworks and regulations. Unless you can prove compliance, you’re still subject to failed audits and penalties. When you automate cybersecurity device assessment and policy enforcement with Forescout, passing compliance audits becomes a byproduct of security operations.

Now available: A free and easy way to learn about Humio and Corelight. As part of our alliance partnership with CrowdStrike and Humio, Corelight is excited to announce a new collaboration that allows our customers and the community to experience the value of evidence.