Many are familiar with how GitLab leverages Falco in its Package Hunter project to detect threats through system call monitoring. However, fewer may be aware of a powerful GitLab plugin for Falco that ingests audit events directly from GitLab, transforming them into actionable fields within Falco. By integrating GitLab audit event fields, you can create Falco rules to detect potential threats in real time and send alerts through your configured notification channels.

As the adoption of cloud-native technologies like containers, Kubernetes, and microservices have evolved, traditional security solutions have struggled to keep up. According to the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT), the average time it takes an attacker to perform reconnaissance and complete an attack is just 10 minutes. To help teams outpace attackers, cloud-native application protection platforms have emerged.

The term LLMjacking refers to attackers using stolen cloud credentials to gain unauthorized access to cloud-based large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT or Anthropic Claude. This blog shows how to strengthen LLMs with Sysdig. The attack works by criminals exploiting stolen credentials or cloud misconfigurations to gain access to expensive artificial intelligence (AI) models in the cloud. Once they gain access, they can run costly AI models at the victim’s expense.

We’re officially in the final days of 2024, a year so eventful it feels difficult to remember half of what happened. We had the Olympics in Paris, which turned the world into fans of sharpshooting, breakdancing, and the pommel horse; a solar eclipse visible in totality from the US for the first time since 1979; and a monthslong, very impassioned rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

Securing operations in the cloud can seem daunting. To protect your organization, you need to have the proper preventative and reactive safeguards in place at every step of the software development cycle. But it doesn’t have to be as complex as it sounds. This blog outlines how to secure the entire software development lifecycle, emphasizing the “shift left” approach, which aims to catch vulnerabilities and issues early in the development process to reduce both risks and costs.

While working on Amazon Bedrock APIs and developing detection mechanisms for Sysdig customers, the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) discovered an unusual behavior in the way some of these APIs were logged in CloudTrail. Specifically, failed Bedrock API calls were logged in the same manner as successful calls, without providing any specific error codes. The lack of error information in API responses may hinder detection efforts by generating false positives in CloudTrail logs.

The phrase “Forging the Proverbial Bulletproof Container” carries both metaphorical and practical significance, particularly in the areas of technology and security. It reflects the idea of building robust, resilient systems that can withstand both internal and external threats. But in the current world of modern, cloud-native software development — where containers have become the backbone of application deployment — the term takes on a literal meaning as well.

Kubernetes 1.32 is right around the corner, and there are quite a lot of changes ready for the Holiday Season! So, what’s new in 1.32? Kubernetes 1.32 brings a whole bunch of useful enhancements, including 39 changes tracked as ‘Graduating’ in this Kubernetes release.

Cloud security operates on a different paradigm compared to traditional IT security. For example, it involves multiple contextual layers such as cloud services, containers and Kubernetes that require specialized insights. The challenge is even harder when the organization is affected by compliance requirements, and is compounded by the sheer volume of data that becomes a major concern for any organization. Failing to effectively manage it leads to costly inefficiencies and risks.