This blog was originally published on MSSP Alert on September 20, 2024 Cybersecurity platformization is usually discussed as it relates to large organizations. But cybersecurity service businesses stand to benefit as much from platformization as enterprises — if not more so.

Attack surfaces in the cloud are expanding at a breakneck pace. Cloud security has reached an unprecedented level of complexity — ranging from misconfigurations and vulnerabilities to advanced threats and compliance challenges, all while malicious actors are increasingly using generative AI to target your cloud infrastructure.

Managing sensitive data while meeting compliance and security standards is an ever-growing challenge for organizations. Today, secure data management is a top priority, especially in industries like healthcare, finance, and fintech. This focus is expected to intensify in the coming years. To address these needs, privacy vault solutions like Databunker, Skyflow, and Piiano have emerged. Each offers unique capabilities tailored to specific use cases.

Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service for Windows domain networks. Active Directory serves as a centralized database which stores information about network resources, including users, computers, and services. It plays a significant role in network management and security, providing a framework for user authentication, authorization, resource management, and policy enforcement. This allows organizations to manage permissions and access rights across the entire network efficiently.

Passwords are frustrating. Whether it’s forgetting, resetting, or getting locked out, we’ve all been there.

As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, cybercriminals are gearing up too. This year, alongside the usual suspects, we're seeing some crafty new scams, so let’s take a look at some of the ones you should be most careful of during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday. AI-Generated Fake Reviews AI has allowed scammers to flood product pages with well-written and convincing fake reviews of products.

The Swiss National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned of a QR code phishing (quishing) campaign that’s targeting people in Switzerland via physical letters sent through the mail, Malwarebytes reports. The letters purport to come from the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), asking recipients to scan a QR code to install a new app for severe weather warnings.

While most security teams now have systematic processes in place for identifying vulnerabilities and responding to targeted threats, large-scale security incidents that affect many organizations globally are now an increasingly common occurrence. The Crowdstrike outage in July, while not specifically a security incident, demonstrated how targeted breaches or failures in our security infrastructure can have a ripple effect across entire industries and disrupt critical aspects of everyday life.

An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges and perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated privilege escalation vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-9474.