Sedara attended Buffalo’s very own BSides conference in early June. BSides are cybersecurity conferences held across the world, often planned and hosted by grassroots organizers. They’re a great way to learn about the latest trends in the industry and network with both established and aspiring professionals. Several of our team members attended this year’s conference, and here are their takeaways.

In today’s interconnected business landscape, outsourcing to third-party vendors and service providers is an effective method for most organizations to improve operational efficiency and lower financial costs. However, as businesses form third-party partnerships, they inherit potential risks and increase the complexity of their third-party ecosystem, as any one vendor can become an attack vector that cybercriminals exploit to pursue a data breach.

It’s been an exciting year for Splunk Enterprise Security! In May, we celebrated being recognized as a Leader ten times in a row in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. We’re not stopping there. We’re excited to introduce the SIEM of the Future to keep the momentum going. Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0 is available now in a private preview.

TargetCompany’s Linux variant threatens ESXi environments with new methods, LilacSquid targets multiple sectors, and DarkGate malware switches from Autolt to AutoHotkey.

Node.js backend development continues to stand out in 2024 as a powerful and flexible runtime for building scalable and efficient applications, even more so with the rise of other runtimes such as Bun.

Online banking, while convenient, comes with cybersecurity risks. Bank accounts are susceptible to account takeover attacks, which happen when a hacker gains access to the account and changes the credentials. This prevents the account owner from accessing their bank account and allows the hacker to make unauthorized purchases or access other, linked accounts. According to the American Bank, account takeover fraud is expected to cause losses of more than $343 billion worldwide between 2023 and 2027.

We’re excited to announce that Snyk has now developed an AWS Marketplace add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), embedded directly into the AWS Management Console! Snyk joins a small number of approved ISVs around the globe, allowing customers to deploy a Snyk agent on Amazon EKS clusters using the same methods you would use to deploy native AWS services, either manually via the AWS Management Console or by using AWS’ command-line interface (CLI).

Let’s go straight to the TL;DR: we have just released a new Rego extension for the popular Zed editor! Providing both syntax highlighting and all the language server features of Regal that were previously available for editors like VS Code, or Neovim. The extension is available from the Zed extensions view, and you’ll find it by searching for “Rego”.