Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks. However, you would not be able to access the restaurants more sensitive data such as their financial, employee, or tax records. What are APIs?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The individual Web Apps are isolated from one another by executing in their own containers on the shared Virtual Machine: Like many AzureRM services, App Service allows you to assign Managed Identities to the individual Web Apps. Managed Identities are great and admins should absolutely use them.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

In this three part blog series we are exploring attack paths that emerge out of Managed Identity assignments in three Azure services: Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, and Function Apps. You should absolutely be using Managed Identity assignments in Azure instead of storing or accessing credentials. Intro and Prior Work.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2022

In this three part blog series we have explored attack paths that emerge out of Managed Identity assignments in three Azure services: Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, and Function Apps. In Part 1 we looked at attack paths that emerge out of Automation Account Managed Identity Assignments and Run As configurations.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

A pair of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel disclosed this week expose major Linux operating systems that could let a hacker either gain root privileges on a compromised host or shut down the entire OS altogether. Further reading: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Red Hat, Others Confirm Flaws.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 6, 2022

In this three part blog series we will explore attack paths that emerge out of Managed Identity assignments in three Azure services: Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, and Function Apps. But first, what exactly are Managed Identities? But what if that task requires some sort of privilege to perform? Intro and Prior Work.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2021

Take identity management—arguably one of the most important defenses against cyber threats—for example. Still, according to Gartner’s recent Security and IAM Adoption Trend Survey 76% of enterprises report that they want to get more out of their identity management programs. Never stop evaluating and auditing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Threat Detection and Response customers. One of the primary ways that adversaries gain access to environments is through valid credentials.

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Google Security

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog describes one set of signals for use by system administrators or endpoint detection agents that should reliably flag any access to the browser’s protected data from another application on the system. This blog will also show how the logging works in practice by testing it against a python password stealer.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2022

How to Control Root-Level SSH Access. Why is it a bad practice to allow root-level SSH access? Once you have access to the root account, you have complete system access. This chaos could have been avoided had the organization elected not to trust their admins to properly manage the keys to the kingdom.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. “Luckily, we fought them off well and they did not gain access to any important service.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On January 25, 2024, Microsoft published a blog post that detailed their recent breach at the hands of “Midnight Blizzard”. In this blog post, I will explain the attack path “Midnight Blizzard” used and what Azure admins and defenders should do to protect themselves from similar attacks.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

But according to a blog post this week from Sophos, attackers from the Nefilim ransomware gang recently infiltrated an unnamed company in part by compromising the admin account of a deceased employee who had passed away three months earlier. And on those occasions in which an employee dies, that same practice should apply.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2019

This new capability removes the compromise between encryption and storage efficiency, providing the granular access controls security professionals have come to expect from Thales combined with the industry-leading data reduction technologies from Pure Storage. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data. The host writes encrypted data to the FlashArray.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is the first of a blog series on DevSecOps. This first blog is an overview and subsequent blogs will take deeper dives into different aspects of the process. Repositories require authorization and authentication as well as auditing and logging for least-privilege and need-to-know access to the repository.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 30, 2019

As I noted in my last blog post , containers, which are now pervasive in enterprises, are ephemeral, and microservices frameworks like Kubernetes treat them as such. So, in this and my next few blogs, I will share some questions you might want to ask as you go about securing your data in a microservices environment. Data security.

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McAfee

APRIL 14, 2020

However, the flexibility of being able to access cloud products from any device or location also means higher risk of potential security threats. Privilege user threats: Abuse of privilege user roles or permissions can result in insider threats that pose a greater risk to organization’s data.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 12, 2023

Access to these supporting Storage Accounts can lead to disclosure of Function App source code, command execution in the Function App, and (as we’ll show in this blog) decryption of the Function App Access Keys. Azure Function Apps use Access Keys to secure access to HTTP Trigger functions.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. Their dual-edged nature demands careful implementation and management.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will explain the unique data security challenges for Telcos and three ways how both Thales and Red Hat can help them protect against future API attacks. However, you would not be able to access the restaurants more sensitive data such as their financial, employee, or tax records. What are APIs?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Identity and Access Management in Multi-Cloud Environments. Multi-cloud consumption raises concerns about the operational complexity of successfully managing both encryption and the corresponding keys across multiple providers, each with their own consoles and APIs,” the Thales report states. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What Is Container Management? Container management controls and allows access to, and the promotion of, all the container images within a container. Other reasons for container management include securing the following: Container host. Registries, or container management stacks (shared containers). Network traffic.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2022

Back in February of 2020 Karl Fosaaen published a great blog post about abusing Managed Identity (MI) assignments, specifically those assigned to a Virtual Machine running in Azure. On May 15th, Marius Sandbu published a blog post where he talks about responding to an incident where a real adversary was abusing this exact scenario.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 1, 2018

We at Thales have blogged about the GDPR , its global impact, reach, and penalties. And, close behind that, in third place is “unauthorized access to containers.”. Layers should include not only perimeter security, but also, among others as prescribed by GDPR Article 32: Limiting access to data.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Organizations should develop robust incident response plans to manage operational risks effectively, ensure redundancy for critical systems, and conduct frequent assessments to identify and address vulnerabilities in their operational processes. The aim is to strengthen access controls and reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JANUARY 25, 2024

It underlines the necessity of understanding and managing the security risks associated with AI systems. Consider AI-specific risks in user interaction design, applying default secure settings and least privilege principles. Prioritize model interpretability for debugging, audit, and compliance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 18, 2019

appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. To learn more, read “ Securing data in the hybrid cloud ” by my colleague Mark Royle, and “ Leverage Your Cloud Investments with VMware Cloud Marketplace ” by our partner at VMware, Hari Ramakrishnan. The post Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

As more trusted privileged users hold access to more critical functions and information within organizations, the trust bestowed on them must be validated to address insider threats and thwart cyberattacks. Privileged Users. Privileged users and privileged accounts can be exploited to attack an organization from within.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

This new capability removes the compromise between encryption and storage efficiency, providing the granular access controls security professionals have come to expect from Thales combined with the industry-leading data reduction technologies from Pure Storage. Storage Costs of Encrypted Data. The host writes encrypted data to the FlashArray.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 26, 2021

Inappropriate Access Leads to Data Breaches . Inappropriate levels of access granted to employees, contractors, and partners is the leading cause of data loss, theft, and breaches. Despite increased IT security investments made in 2020, organizations remain susceptible to unauthorized access in data breaches. What Is RBAC?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A reasoned approach to managing digital sovereignty. The cloud is getting bigger and more complex to manage by the minute. Failed audits and cloud data breaches are common…. Tue, 09/13/2022 - 05:43. Sensitive data is stored across multicloud environments, and data storage and classification are major concerns.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2023

In this blog, we'll review Volt Typhoon, dig into how they evade detection, discuss CISA's protective recommendations, and see how Malwarebytes EDR can help eliminate such threats. This command line tool lets them gather details like drive letter, filesystem type, free space, and volume name without needing administrative privileges.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Experts discovered 73 gigabytes of data during a regular security audit of publicly available servers. “A massive 73 GB data breach was discovered during a regular security audit of publicly available servers with the Shodan search engine.” ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. citizens (i.e.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Together, the staggering list of vulnerabilities underscore the need for strong patch and vulnerability management practices — as well as strong cyber vigilance in general. permanent-redirect” annotation to inject code into the ingress controller process, which could lead to unauthorized access to critical data.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of the forthcoming new 2022 edition of ISO/IEC 27002 recommends having a topic-specific information security policy on "access control". Imagine if you were tasked to draft an access control policy, what would it cover? How about something along these lines, for starters: What is access control intended to achieve? Clause 5.1

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. Insiders with special access to an organization’s Kubernetes infrastructure may be able to abuse these privileges.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While the most common definition of a data breach is the unauthorized access, transition, reproduction, dissemination or sale of personal, confidential or privileged data, if data is mistakenly shared with an unauthorized user by an authorized user– that is also a breach. Get specific with contractual agreements.

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