CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

Tomorrow, April 11 is Identity Management Day. This day serves as an annual reminder to increase awareness and education for leaders, IT decision-makers and the general public on the importance of identity management. The dangers of improper management of digital identities are at an all-time high.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In the digital age, where enterprises thrive on collaboration and smooth connectivity, user identities and access privileges management has become critical. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Also, as more companies […] The post What Is SCIM Provisioning?

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 28, 2024

Cleartext credentials are commonly targeted in a penetration test and used to move laterally to other systems, obtain sensitive information, or even further elevate privileges. NetSPI discovered a cleartext Azure Access Token for a privileged Managed Identity. Additionally, we’ll cover how the finding was remediated.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Identity Governance and Administration, also known as IGA in cybersecurity or identity security, is a strategic approach to security that aims to help companies reduce cyber risk, manage digital identities and access privileges, and comply with government regulations to secure sensitive information.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Identity remains a key target of attackers. Breaches leveraging identity for initial access or even privilege escalation and lateral movement are on the rise. The increased complexity of modern identity systems only intensifies the challenge of securing the identity perimeter. The advantages are clear and twofold.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

Once obtained full-access permission to storage accounts, an attacker within the cloud environment can access information in storage accounts, including Azure functions’ sources, and manipulate their code to steal and exfiltrate an access token of the Azure Function App’s assigned managed-identity and escalate privileges.

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of containerized applications, Azure Container Registry (ACR) is one of the more commonly used services in Azure for the management and deployment of container images. One of those features is the ability to run build and configuration scripts through the “Tasks” functionality.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 14, 2024

As Azure penetration testers, we often run into overly permissioned User-Assigned Managed Identities. This type of Managed Identity is a subscription level resource that can be applied to multiple other Azure resources. The last item on that list (Deployment Scripts) is a more recent addition (2023).

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 12, 2023

User access review is an essential component of any organization’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. This includes the […] The post What Is User Access Review?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

Explosion of Machine Identities Creating Cybersecurity ‘Debt’. The expansion of digital initiatives has created an explosion of human and machine identities, often tallying hundreds of thousands per organization. If these digital identities go unmanaged and unsecured, they can represent significant cybersecurity risk….

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“By compromising and replaying a token issued to an identity that has already completed multifactor authentication, the threat actor satisfies the validation of MFA and access is granted to organizational resources accordingly,” the team wrote in a blog post. ” Read next: Top Password Managers.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The 2024 Duo Trusted Access Report: Navigating Complexity , gives us a chance to use the topic of complexity as a backdrop to examine trends (existing and emerging) in both access management and identity. To do this, we have also delved into identity sprawl and protection , a concept that might still be considered emerging to some.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

The virtualization giant warns that a threat actor can exploit the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-22972 (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8), to obtain admin privileges and urges customers to install patches immediately. The CVE-2022-22972 flaw affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize Automation.

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NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This research time has given us a few key areas to look at in the Azure Batch service, that we will cover in this blog. This in-between space allows users of the service to spin up pools that have the necessary resource power, without the overhead of creating and managing a dedicated virtual system.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As defined by Jericho Systems, privilege management also referred to as Privileged Account Management (PAM) is “the practice of controlling and administering digital user identities and the rights of those identities to perform actions on specified resources.” The post What is Privilege Management?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The looming threat of ransomware has forced organizations to not only evaluate their entire cybersecurity programs, budget, and roadmap, but also critically evaluate their Identity and Access and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

This data strongly indicates that password management and 2FA are crucial for any organization or startup to become more secure from web attacks. We’ve shared some helpful guidance on password security at Zigrin Security blog. From the chart, it is evident that many intrusions exploit the basic (mis)management of identity.

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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.

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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?

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NetSpi Technical

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of containerized applications, Azure Container Registry (ACR) is one of the more commonly used services in Azure for the management and deployment of container images. One of those features is the ability to run build and configuration scripts through the “Tasks” functionality.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2023

Here are a few of the top security weaknesses that threaten organizations today: Poor risk management. A lack of a risk management program or support from senior management is a glaring weakness in your cybersecurity strategy. Anemic asset management. Spotty patching. Weak access controls. No disaster plans.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

Why Are We Still Separating Credential Management and Machine Identity Management? A fragmented identity management landscape. In a widely distributed business and computing environment, where identities are now the new perimeter to defend, controlling the access to data is crucial. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

The list of impacted products includes: VMware Workspace ONE Access (Access) VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) VMware Cloud Foundation vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. The CVE-2022-22972 flaw affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize Automation.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

To do this, organizations can establish an identity-based Zero Trust strategy. In an identity-centric approach, human and machine identities are at the core of security policy creation, with access controls and policies based on assigned attributes. Securing your devices is key to securing cloud access. “If

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2022

How to Overcome Common SSH Machine Identity Risks with Automation. Prevent breaches by automating the collection of risk intelligence required to quickly identify and respond to SSH machine identity risks, weaknesses or security events. brooke.crothers. Thu, 06/09/2022 - 12:14. Collecting Risk Intelligence. Streamline Operations.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. Apple is expanding which identity providers can be used with its implementation of OpenID.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Introducing BloodHound 4.3 — Get Global Admin More Often Discover new attack paths traversing Microsoft Graph and seven new Azure Resource Manager objects. Let’s talk about: More Managed Identity Attack Paths The seven AzureRM services mentioned above share a common feature: they all support managed identity assignments.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This data is managed by different entities, such as primary care facilities, acute care facilities and within associated applications that collect, store and track health data, creating numerous exposure vulnerabilities. The vast majority of breaches are the result of poorly managed access controls. Dealing with policy-based access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager contain a remote code execution vulnerability due to server-side template injection. In Mid-April, the virtualization giant reported that threat actors are actively exploiting the critical vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager. in severity.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A dynamic authorization defines the relationship between identities – human identities and machine identities – and the digital assets to be accessed. The basic principle behind authorization is that any identity, as secure it might be, is not to be trusted implicitly to access any digital asset. Mobile device, laptop?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft documentation says: This is a privileged role. Searching for the Role Fails Correction: while this page does not show this role, the Entra PIM role management page does (Figure 4). UPDATE: While the Entra “Roles and administrators” table hides this (and other) roles, the Entra PIM roles management table shows this role.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

to obtain admin privileges and urges customers to install patches immediately. The CVE-2022-22972 flaw affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize Automation. The CVE-2022-22972 flaw affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize Automation. states VMware.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

You need to consider if principals are meant to have the level of control they have and if they are essential for the enterprise identity infrastructure’s operability. In this blog post series, we will explain how we define Tier Zero and explain what common assets we recommend to be part of Tier Zero.

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NetSpi Executives

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Our top resources this year spanned from Blockchain to Attack Surface Management. How to Use Attack Surface Management for Continuous Pentesting Point in time testing is so 2023. Escalating Privileges with Azure Function Apps Dive into privilege escalation with Karl Fosaaen.

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