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SecurityScorecard

A Day in the Life of a CISO - Presenting to the Board Chairman

Nov 18, 2024 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
It’s 7:30 AM when I check my inbox, and right at the top is an urgent email from Alex, our Chairman of the Board: “I need an update on how we’re stacking up against our competitors on security.” Not just a quick overview—he’s asking for specifics on how our cybersecurity posture compares to our peers, the improvements we’ve made, and a detailed look at our progress since our last board meeting.
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Torq

Take Control with Torq's AI Data Transformation

Nov 18, 2024 By Brian Higgins In Torq
Data interoperability is the backbone of building reliable and efficient hyperautomated workflows. However, manipulating and formatting massive amounts of data from various sources — especially in complex JSON files — can feel overwhelming and consume significant time and resources, particularly for those still gaining technical expertise. Teams often lack or have maxed out dedicated resources to wrangle this data.
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jfrog

CVE-2024-10524 Wget Zero Day Vulnerability

Nov 18, 2024 By Goni Golan In JFrog
While researching CVE-2024-38428 in GNU’s Wget, our team found a new 0-day vulnerability. The vulnerability, later assigned CVE-2024-10524, may lead to various types of attacks – including phishing, SSRF, and MiTM. These attacks can have severe consequences such as resource restriction bypass and sensitive information exposure. Upon discovering this vulnerability, our team responsibly disclosed it to the Wget maintainers. A patch was released on November 11 and is included in Wget 1.25.0.
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Why SASE vs SSE misses the point for IT leaders

Nov 18, 2024 By Xalient In Xalient
As high-profile breaches dominate headlines and decimate share prices, demonstrating your ability to protect client data has become the latest IT imperative getting boardroom attention, along with a host of new analyst and vendor-created labels for the ‘perfect’ solution. We want to help those who are short on time and resources cut through the bewildering landscape of buzzwords and gold standards by offering some practical, vendor-agnostic advice on where best to start and how to get the biggest wins in reducing their firms' exposure to risk.
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wallarm

Taming API Sprawl: Best Practices for API Discovery and Management

Nov 18, 2024 By Wallarm In Wallarm
APIs are the backbone of interconnected applications, enabling organizations to innovate, integrate, and scale rapidly. However, as enterprises continue to expand their digital ecosystems, they often encounter a common and complex challenge: API sprawl. Unchecked, API sprawl can lead to increased security risks, inefficient resource utilization, and the frustrating experience of redundant or hard-to-locate services across teams. Postman details the explosive growth in APIs in their State of API report.
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CloudCasa

Unlocking the Benefits of Rook vs. Ceph in Kubernetes and How CloudCasa Simplifies Storage Class Migration

Nov 18, 2024 By Da Li In CloudCasa
Ask Our Experts In the rapidly evolving world of Kubernetes, managing storage efficiently can be a challenging task. As more organizations adopt Kubernetes for their cloud-native applications, the need for scalable, resilient, and automated storage solutions becomes critical. This is where Rook and Ceph come into play, offering powerful storage capabilities tailored for Kubernetes environments.
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veracode

Software Liability Comes to the EU: Navigating New Compliance Challenges

Nov 18, 2024 By Chris Wysopal In Veracode
The European Union has taken a significant step by introducing a directive to update the EU’s civil liability law that extends the definition of "defective products" to include software. These pivotal liability rules hold manufacturers accountable for harm caused by software vulnerabilities, urging them to prioritize cybersecurity and compliance. Here’s how manufactures should think about navigating these new compliance challenges.
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Pentest People

Meeting Compliance With Threat Intelligence

Nov 18, 2024 By Pentest People In Pentest People
Threat intelligence is the process of gathering, analysing, and applying information about current and potential cyber threats to help organisations protect themselves proactively. It involves monitoring threat actors, attack patterns, vulnerabilities, and global cyber activity to provide actionable insights. Unlike traditional reactive approaches to cyber security, threat intelligence enables businesses to anticipate threats and tailor their defences accordingly.
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Arctic Wolf

The Role of Pretexting in Cyber Attacks

Nov 18, 2024 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
A threat actor sends an email to a user at an organization claiming to be from the IT department. They need a password to a critical application, and the email is convincing – it mentions aspects of the application that would only be known to the user, it brings up a recent update email that was sent out company wide, and it even closes with a friendly, “Hope to see at next week’s happy hour!” in the sign-off.
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Arctic Wolf

Follow-Up: Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls Actively Exploited (CVE-2024-0012)

Nov 18, 2024 By Andres Ramos In Arctic Wolf
On November 18, 2024, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) released updated information on an actively exploited vulnerability impacting PAN-OS, the operating system that powers PAN firewalls. Originally disclosed last week as a remote command execution vulnerability, this flaw has now been reclassified as an authentication bypass flaw and assigned CVE-2024-0012.
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