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Short Staffed? Try Using SOAR to Augment Your Security Team

The tech world is grappling with an imbalance between skilled technical talent availability and demand, with far-reaching impacts. Combined with tightened budgets, staff shortages can leave your organization vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks. Let’s look at just two of the industries being affected: higher education and state and local governments.

ISO 27002: Information Security Controls Explained

In the race to execute digital transformation strategies, the rear-view mirror never fails to shake off the looming cyber threats that are a significant stumbling block to any organizational objectives. Today, nearly 48% of organizations are experiencing more cyberattacks than the previous year.

CVSS: The Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Cybersecurity measures have become important in the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats. With organizations increasingly relying on digital technologies to drive their operations, the risk of cyberattacks becomes more likely, with potential consequences ranging from financial losses to reputational damages.

Add to Chrome? - Part 1: An Analysis of Chrome Browser Extension Security

Welcome to the wonderful world of browser extensions! These tools promise efficiency, entertainment, and customization at your fingertips. But could those promises come with any hidden danger? In this blog series, we provide an overview of SURGe research that analyzed the entire corpus of public browser extensions available on the Google Chrome Web Store. Our goal? To unravel whether these extensions facilitate a better browsing experience or represent potential threats lurking in plain sight.

AI Predictions Are Fueling Greater Cyber Up-Skilling Needs

It’s a Sunday morning and things are pretty quiet around the Fusilero household, which is especially noticeable now that the chaos of the holiday season has passed and the kids are back at school. So, I’m catching up on my reading and research – starting with Splunk Predictions 2024.

Another Year of RATs and Trojan Stealer: Detection Commonalities and Summary

In 2023, Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and Trojan Stealers were some of the most prevalent types of malware in the cybersecurity landscape. RATs and Trojan Stealer malware represent significant cybersecurity threats, as they’re often employed to conduct espionage, surveillance, and data theft, which emphasizes the critical need for robust defenses.

Security Insights: Jenkins CVE-2024-23897 RCE

The recent identification of CVE-2024-23897 in Jenkins versions up to 2.441 has significantly heightened concerns within the cybersecurity community, particularly focusing on the implications for public-facing Jenkins servers. Jenkins servers are important for many organizations as they are used in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automating stages of software development and deployment.

Security Insights: Tracking Confluence CVE-2023-22527

On January 16th, 2024, Atlassian released an advisory highlighting a critical vulnerability within certain versions of Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. This issue, tracked under the identifier CVE-2023-22527, involves a severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability stemming from a template injection flaw in out-of-date software versions. The risk is significant, with unauthenticated attackers potentially gaining the ability to execute arbitrary code on affected installations.

Retail in the Era of AI: An Industry Take on Splunk's 2024 Predictions

Macro technology trends have always impacted and influenced every aspect of the retail industry. From the days of catalog ordering and cash only transactions to today’s personalized, always-on omnichannel experiences where contactless payment has become the norm - the world of retail is almost unrecognizable.