Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Authorities that lay down compliance regulations often update them in order to keep them relevant. However, for organizations that fall under the purview of these regulations, it can be a challenge to keep up with the updates and ensure that they stay compliant.

In the Godfather Part II, Michael Corleone says, “There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” This lesson Vito Corleone taught his son Michael is just as applicable to IT security configuration management (SCM).

When configuring an email client application or an email server to send to relay emails, many questions come to one’s mind, such as which SMTPs should be used, what is the purpose of each of these ports, which are standard ports, which ports allow secure communication and many more.

Small and medium businesses are the backbone of many economies, yet they often do not have the same level of cybersecurity as larger businesses. This is because they think that they are too small to be a target, or they believe that their cybersecurity measures are adequate. In this blog post, we will discuss why SMBs are doing cyber security wrong – and how to get it right!

Cyberattacks often target the retail sector, although many of these threats are aimed at the e-commerce channel, businesses have also reported incidents where in-store Wi-Fi access points and even IoT devices are exploited as attack vectors. This is reflected in several studies, which reveal that, together with the education sector, the fashion industry was one of the hardest hit last year and 60% of retail companies are at risk of suffering an attack.

On today’s episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Jason Barnes — the former Head of Global Security Operations at Netskope and current Senior Director at Charter Communications.

The team at LimaCharlie continues on its mission to develop the concept of Security Infrastructure as a Service. We added three new team members during the month of June with more coming! We also hosted a webinar on securing your CI/CD pipeline built around some new capabilities we added which allow for the ingestion and monitoring of GitHub audit logs. You can watch a recording of that webinar here: SecDevOps & LimaCharlie - Automating and auditing of GitHub access

At 2022’s AGConf (1Password’s annual employee conference), every employee received a goodie box to celebrate the event and the company’s successes over the past year. Our theme this year was “space”, so the goodie box included a kit for a Lego rocket ship (very appropriate considering our own CEO is a Lego aficionado).

As many threat actors and groups seek to utilize recently discovered vulnerabilities, the Cyberint Research Team found several XFiles stealer campaigns, in which Follina vulnerability was exploited as part of the delivery phase. Follina is one of the most widespread vulnerabilities discovered throughout 2022. The vulnerability allows a threat actor to perform a remote code execution (RCE) through malicious Word documents. XFiles stealer is a vastly used info stealer that took off during the end of 2021.