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RSAC insights: How the ‘CIEM’ framework is helping companies manage permissions glut

The Last Watchdog

Now comes an emerging security discipline to help companies get a grip on all of these permissions. It’s called “cloud infrastructure entitlement management,” or CIEM , not to be confused with security information and event management, or SIEM , which is something else altogether.

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UK NCSC warns of spear-phishing attacks from Russia-linked and Iran-linked groups

Security Affairs

The group also used fake social media or networking profiles that impersonate respected experts, and used supposed conference or event invitations as lures. .” reads the alert published by the UK Agency. In some attacks, the threat actors also used false approaches from journalists.

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Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

Security Affairs

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. “Phosphorus, an Iranian actor, has targeted with this scheme potential attendees of the upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit in Saudi Arabia.”

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Black Hat Asia 2022 Continued: Cisco Secure Integrations

Cisco Security

SecureX: Bringing Threat Intelligence Together by Ian Redden . Device type spoofing event by Jonny Noble . Continued Integrations from past Black Hat events. NetWitness PCAP file carving and submission to Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (formerly Threat Grid) for analysis. Device type spoofing event by Jonny Noble.

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5 Components of the Kubernetes Control Plane that Demand Special Attention in Your Security Strategy

Security Affairs

In its State of Container and Kubernetes Security Fall 2020 survey, StackRox found that 90% of respondents had suffered a security incident in their Kubernetes deployments in the last year. Why it needs to be secured. How to secure it. Why it needs to be secured. How to secure it. cloud-controller-manager.

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Why Focusing on Container Runtimes Is the Most Critical Piece of Security for EKS Workloads?

Security Affairs

In particular, they might consider limiting their use of ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings, as these assignments could enable an attacker to move to other cluster resources if they compromise a single user account. For more information about other aspects of Amazon EKS security, click here.

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10 Reasons to Trust Your Enterprise APIs

Cisco Security

Your team many find the resources and community support on Cisco DevNet as a great way to connect, secure, and automate APIs. Once you have an accountable team, make a plan , and communicate it throughout the organization. and protocols like OpenID Connect to secure the sharing of sensitive company and user information.

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