2020 will always be remembered as the year our lives changed dramatically due to the Coivd-19 pandemic. Here our panel of security experts look back at the lessons learned in the past 12 months and share their predictions for the key security challenges organizations will face in 2021.
Organizations face an ever-evolving threat landscape. With this in mind, it is imperative that organizations keep an up-to-date vulnerability management policy for remediating and controlling security vulnerabilities that may lead to a breach. A good vulnerability management policy should contain the following.
On October 29th, Detectify released a security test to detect a critical Oracle WebLogic Server RCE – CVE-2020-14882. Again in November, Oracle released an out-of-band security patch to fix a related RCE for Oracle Fusion Middleware. These vulnerabilities are currently being exploited by multiple botnets in the wild. Detectify scans your application for both of these vulnerabilities and will alert you if you are running a vulnerable version of Oracle WebLogic Server.
Ransomware is a serious security threat affecting companies of all sizes and industries. While the symptoms (an attack) can be extremely damaging and disruptive, the solution can be simple - proactive prevention through a heavy dose of security hygiene. Here we cover the basics of Ransomware and top tips for securing your organization against it.