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Why External Attack Surface Management Matters

Organizations face a growing number of external cyber threats that are becoming increasingly sophisticated and harder to detect. With the rise of remote work and cloud-based technologies, organizations’ attack surface has expanded significantly, making it difficult for security teams to maintain a strong defensive posture.

How Corelight Transforms Data Security with Normalyze

When organizations need to know not only what type of malicious activity potentially occurred within their networks and clouds but also gather the remnants of that activity as evidence — they turn to Corelight. Corelight's customers include Fortune 500 companies, major government agencies, and large research universities. Based in San Francisco, this open-core security company was founded by the creators of the widely-used network security technology, Zeek.

Expand visibility around authentication and application anomalies with Corelight's new LDAP analyzer

Comprehensive visibility into network protocols is a hallmark of Zeek (and therefore Corelight) data. That's why we are very happy to announce that with our v27.2 release we are supporting a new analyzer for the LDAP protocol. You likely know LDAP as a workhorse for carrying directory information across the network. While it's an open standard, it's most often seen as part of several server implementations, especially Microsoft's Active Directory, OpenLDAP, and others.

NBA Fan Data Was Recently Exposed By a Third-Party Data Breach

The NBA is a national sports league that manages many different leagues under its umbrella of organizations. The league has the NBA 2K League, NBA, Basketball Africa League, the WNBA, and the NBA G League. Each of these different organizations trusts the company with their information, and each one could have been exposed in the recent data leak by the company.

Royal Ransomware on the Rise: Everything You Need to Know

On March 2nd, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) – #StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware. We highly encourage everyone in a security role to read the Advisory, as it contains recent and historically observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Royal ransomware.

The Need for More Cybersecurity Legislation

In this video, Keith Christie-Smith shares his opinion on the current state of cybersecurity legislation and why he believes that more legislation is necessary. He argues that there are still many verticals where more legislation is needed and that organizations should be mandated to apply the most stringent cybersecurity policies and frameworks available. He also discusses the importance of organizations doing as much as possible from a cybersecurity perspective to protect themselves and their clients.

The Benefits and Risks of Using Government Databases for ID Verification in Fraud Prevention

In today’s digital world, identity theft and fraud have become increasingly common occurrences. It is no secret that fraudsters are getting more creative, making it more challenging for businesses and individuals to protect themselves. However, with the advent of technology, there are various ways to mitigate these risks, such as using government databases for ID verification.

Mend CLI

The Mend CLI tool is a great way to embed a Mend scan into any script, like adding it to your pipeline, because it runs and returns results directly in the command line. It can scan proprietary source code or open source libraries from the command line, and return known security vulnerabilities in the open source, or potential security issues in your proprietary code. This is an initial video overview of how to use the Mend CLI to scan your source code

The Value of Network Redundancy

Corporate IT infrastructure has become crucial to the success of the modern business. Disruption in the availability of corporate applications and services will impact employee productivity and business profitability. Companies are responsible for the resiliency of their own IT systems and this includes ensuring the constant availability of critical business applications for employees, customers, and partners.

Everything you might have missed during Security Week 2023

Security Week 2023 is officially in the books. In our welcome post last Saturday, I talked about Cloudflare’s years-long evolution from protecting websites, to protecting applications, to protecting people. Our goal this week was to help our customers solve a broader range of problems, reduce external points of vulnerability, and make their jobs easier. We announced 34 new tools and integrations that will do just that.