It’s no secret that Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to grow by leaps and bounds as organizations modernize their IT infrastructure by migrating apps and workloads to the cloud. And due to the AWS shared responsibility model of cloud security, a deep and broad ecosystem of security vendors has also grown up alongside AWS.

Back in 2019, OWASP released its first API Top-10 list. It quickly gained widespread acceptance and acknowledgment from the industry about the challenges faced in protecting APIs. Since then, growth in APIs has continued, and the threat landscape also evolved rapidly. OWASP has released an updated API Top 10 2023 with quite a few changes from 2019 to address the changes and provide new insights and recommendations.

For folks who are responsible for threat detection of any kind for their organizations, the cloud can often be a difficult area to approach. At the time of writing, Amazon Web Services contains over two hundred services, while the Azure cloud offers six hundred. Each of these services can generate unique telemetry and each surface can present defenders with a unique attack path to handle. Adding to this complexity is the diversity of cloud workload configurations, as well as varying architecture models.

Originally published June 1, 2022 In mid-2022, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs developed R4IoT, a proof-of-concept that showed how IoT devices could become entry points for IT and further OT ransomware attacks. The original blog post, below, explains how we came to create R4IoT and why. Our 2023H1 Threat Review included ample evidence that cross-device attacks like R4IoT are now a reality.

Let's face it: Managing cybersecurity for multiple clients as an MSP can feel like navigating a maze, full of pitfalls and traps. Just when you think you have one security issue managed, another one pops up.

From the inception of the Internet, data security has become a paramount concern.