In our 2021 Security Predictions, the WatchGuard’s Threat Lab team anticipated that authentication would be the cornerstone of strong security. “With billions of usernames and passwords ripe for the picking on the dark web and the prevalence of automated authentication attacks, we believe that any service without MFA enabled will be compromised in 2021,” said WatchGuard CSO Corey Nachreiner.
Following up on our Simulating Filesystem Tree with Billions of Files series, let's imagine that we want to create a filesystem with 1 billion inodes in memory. At this scale, every single byte used to represent the inode will use 1GB of memory. Just with the inode numbers, each with 8 bytes, will use at least 8GB of memory. If we consider, conservatively, that each inode will use approximately 50 bytes of space, it will not be feasible to store this information in memory.
The number of machine identities for which organizations are responsible has “exploded” in recent years, according to Security Boulevard. These machine identities include devices and workloads. But they also include application programming interfaces (APIs). Organizations use APIs to connect the data and functionality of their applications to those managed by third-party developers, business partners, and other entities, per IBM.
The U.S. Federal Government needs to improve its information security risk management policies to keep pace with the dynamic threats to Federal networks and supply chains.
Vulnerability management is becoming increasingly important to companies due to the rising threat of cyber security attacks and regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-731 and more. Vulnerability management is a comprehensive process implemented to continuously identify, evaluate, classify, remediate, and report on security vulnerabilities.
In this blog, we’ve analyzed data from Netskope customers that include security settings of over 1 million entities in 156,737 Google Cloud (GCP) projects across hundreds of organizations (see Dataset and Methodology for more details on the dataset). We will specifically look at the configuration of service accounts, see what’s commonly occurring in the real world, and analyze how multiple security misconfigurations can lead to escalation of privileges and lateral movement.
In part three of a four-part series, Clint Pollock, principal solutions architect at Veracode, details how to use Veracode from the command line in the Cloud9 IDE to submit a software composition analysis (SCA) scan. Check out the video and step-by-step instructions below. It’s Clint Pollock, principal solutions architect, back again for part three of our four-part series on using Veracode from the command line in Cloud9 IDE.
