Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing software systems has never been more critical. Cyber threats continue to exploit systemic vulnerabilities in widely used technologies, leading to widespread damage and disruption. That said, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) helped shape best practices for the technology industry with their Secure-by-Design pledge.

TL;DR: The new EU cybersecurity directive, NIS2, is already reshaping how software suppliers do business through stricter vulnerability management requirements in procurement contracts. This shift is gaining momentum, and more companies will need to adapt. Aikido helps automate compliance reporting and vulnerability tracking to meet these new demands. Start your free compliance journey here, or read on to understand what this means for your business.

In late November and December 2024, Arctic Wolf observed evidence of a mass compromise of Fortinet FortiGate. While the initial attack vector was unknown at the time, evidence of compromise (with new users and SSL profiles) was consistent across compromised devices. On January 14, Fortinet released a formal statement and patch. The vulnerability is an Authentication Bypass via crafted requests to Node.js websocket module and issued CVE-2024-55591. The CVSSv3 score is 9.6.

Snyk’s Security Labs team aims to find and help mitigate vulnerabilities in software used by developers around the world, with an overarching goal to improve the state of software security. We do this by targeting tools developers are using, including new and popular software solutions. With the meteoric rise in AI tooling – specifically the fast-growing field of AI-enabled development environments – we have been including such software in our research cycles.

We’ve asked Outpost24’s CISO, Martin Jartelius, what 2025 is likely to hold for organizations using attack surface management (ASM) tools. Here’s what Martin had to say about what he predicts for ASM in 2025, as well as some thought on how the CISOs role might change.

On Wednesday, January 8th, Ivanti disclosed two severe vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices. Ivanti Connect Secure is an external-facing SSL VPN used to secure remote access to corporate networks. Ivanti Policy Secure is an internal network-access control solution designed for regulating access within an enterprise’s network. The critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.0) CVE-2025-0282 allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) through a stack-based buffer overflow.

Enterprise networks frequently experience changes in endpoint devices, software, and files, which can introduce risk to the organization. To mitigate this, companies can implement foundational security controls like file integrity monitoring (FIM), which tracks changes to essential files and helps restore them if unauthorized. Additionally, organizations may use these controls to monitor for vulnerabilities introduced by new devices. However, FIM alone is not enough.