Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

A Useful Cybersecurity Guide Made Specifically for Small Businesses

Starting a small business can be a challenging task. You become responsible for many things simultaneously, such as handling different business operations, establishing partnerships with others, paying salaries and taxes, and trying to profit from your products or services. The last thing you want to occur is a cyberattack on your business. Some people believe that cyberattacks aren’t a huge threat to small businesses.

How Firstup extends security organizational wide with Datadog and AWS

n this video, learn how Datadog’s integrated solutions can increase visibility and improve collaboration between DevOps and security teams in real time. In this session, you will learn how Chad Upton, Vice President of Infrastructure at Firstup, uses Datadog Cloud Security Management to bring together cloud security and observability to enable their engineers to continuously maintain security and compliance best practices across their AWS assets. You’ll also get the chance to hear from Ray Zaman, Solutions Architect at AWS, on how to easily surface and remediate misconfigurations of your AWS environment with Cloud Security Management.

Bytesafe - now available in AWS Marketplace

Today Bytesafe announced that the Bytesafe Security Platform is now available globally in AWS Marketplace. Bytesafe allows enterprises to increase their software supply chain security posture with automated best practices - and a unified workflow for security and developer teams. Reduced risk and protected assets - without slowing down developers.

What We've Learned About Reducing Open-source Risk Since Log4j

I share a birthday with the Log4j event. However, unlike this event, I’ve been around for more than one year. On December 9th, 2021, a Tweet exposed a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a widely-used piece of open-source software. The announcement made headlines everywhere, and cybersecurity was suddenly put in the spotlight. It was a wake-up call for many because, in an instant, software that had been considered secure was suddenly at tremendous risk.

Introduction to Web Application Security: Why It's Important to Keep Your Website Safe

As web applications become more complex and interconnected, the security of these applications becomes increasingly important. In this article, we will discuss web application security, why it is crucial, and how you can test your web applications for security vulnerabilities. By taking measures to secure your website, you reduce the risk of cyberattacks, protect your data from unauthorized access, and save you and your business time and money.

Cloud Threats Memo: Cyber Espionage Exploiting Google Drive for C2 Infrastructure

Another day, another legitimate cloud service exploited for a cyber espionage campaign… Researchers at ESET recently discovered Dolphin, a previously unreported backdoor used by the North-Korean threat actor APT37 (AKA ScarCruft and Reaper) against selected targets. The backdoor, deployed after the initial compromise using less sophisticated malware, was observed for the first time in early 2021, during a watering-hole attack on a South Korean online newspaper.

Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2022

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.