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. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations and security incidents in Kubernetes environments, these are 5 key components of the control plane that demand special attention. Organizations are no strangers to security incidents in their Kubernetes environments. For instance, they can affect the Kubernetes control plane. kube-apiserver.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Container Security and Cloud Native Best Practices. This makes the base image the most important one to secure. . There are different types of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Microsoft Azure), and below you’ll read more about their specific best practices of container security. . Alexa Cardenas.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

How to Stop Outages in Your Kubernetes Clusters [Case Study]. First you might discover—unsurprisingly—a lack of synchronicity between your InfoSec and platform development teams. Prevent outages: Venafi Jetstack Secure. That’s where Venafi Jetstack Secure comes in. brooke.crothers. Mon, 08/01/2022 - 12:00.

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Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

With application environments becoming dynamic, there is a desperate need for security tooling, including firewalls, to do the same. Secure Firewall Cloud Native is the latest addition to the Secure Firewall family , modernizing the way enterprises and service providers secure applications at scale.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2023

Researchers at Orca Security have found a design flaw in the Google Cloud Build service. But the security researchers claim that Google’s fix only limits the discovered Privilege Escalation (PE) vector and organizations are still vulnerable to the larger supply chain risk. First, let’s have a look at the problem.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2022

What Security Controls Do I Need for My Kubernetes Cluster? The majority (88%) of IT decision makers are exploring Kubernetes and containers, according to 2021 data from New Relic. However, as with any technology, new security concerns are emerging. A Red Hat survey of Kubernetes adoption and security showed that.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Cyber Attackers Tap Cloud Native Technologies in Russia-Ukraine War. As part of our research efforts, we regularly deploy honeypots, i.e., misconfigured cloud native applications based on Docker and Kubernetes or other widely used applications such as databases,” according to Aqua. brooke.crothers. Fri, 03/18/2022 - 16:58.

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InfoWorld on Security

JANUARY 21, 2021

One risk in deploying fleets of powerful and flexible clusters on constantly changing infrastructure like Kubernetes is that mistakes happen. Even minute manual errors that slip past review can have substantial impacts on the health and security of your clusters. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks madhav Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:55 Application programming interfaces (APIs) power nearly every aspect of modern applications and have become the backbone of today’s economy. Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents. What are APIs?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. You can strengthen your cybersecurity defenses by using reliable antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs).

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

How to enhance the security across a Kubernetes Infrastructure and mitigate the risk of cyber attacks. The security risks surrounding containers are well-known. Indeed, the problem is that the Kubernetes infrastructure itself presents its own security risks. By David Bisson. Take clusters, for instance.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 19, 2021

ve probably also heard of DevSecOps , which extends DevOps principles into the realm of security. In DevSecOps, security breaks out of its ???silo??? s often more challenging for developers to figure out is how to apply DevSecOps in practice. DevSecOps places a DevOps spin on basic security concepts. DevSecOps, defined.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Certificate Self Service: Freedom for Your Team and Cohesion for Your Business. If you are a machine owner, it might feel like you are relearning a skill every time you need to do something with an identity —such as a TLS certificate— on your machine. . Scott Carter. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 09:26.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Significant API proliferation has turned into significant API sprawl, which increases operational and security challenges for organizations. Several factors contribute to API sprawl including: Adoption of cloud-native design patterns and microservices architectures. Use of API-enabled cloud infrastructure. How did we get here?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. I recently unwrapped these developments in a discussion with Liviu Arsene, senior security analyst at Bitdefender , which has been closely monitoring this trend. Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It was easy to see this coming. Cryptojacking was born.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Container security is the combination of cybersecurity tools, strategies, and best practices that are used to protect container ecosystems and the applications and other components they house. Container runtime security A container runtime is a type of software that runs containers on the host operating system(s).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. These cybercriminals are known for their creativity and ability to target cloud environments, as they introduced new techniques in 2020 that hadn’t been seen before. Also read: Top Container Security Solutions.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Whether or not you relate to the above frustrations, manual processes are linked to a greater risk of errors—especially for critical security functions like machine identities. Let’s say your organization has 10,000 certificates and team members are renewing each of them once a year. Manual processes are also costly.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

At last week’s Black Hat USA, NYC-based financial technology firm Two Sigma Investments took the virtual stage to outline why their existing solution didn’t cut it, the work needed to create an in-house security information and event management (SIEM) system, and the project’s implications. Deploying the Homegrown SIEM.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2022

This attack on PyPI’s ‘ctx’ has the potential to be extremely damaging to companies globally…With the open source solution being downloaded over 20,000 times a week, it’s easy to see how an attack like this might spread rapidly,” Judd said. Wed, 05/25/2022 - 17:24. Python package compromise. Both of the impacted libraries have been removed.

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Google Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Posted by Dan Lorenc, Priya Wadhwa, Open Source Security Team If you've been paying attention to the news at all lately, you've probably noticed that software supply chain attacks are rapidly becoming a big problem. Tekton Chains securely captures metadata for CI/CD pipeline executions. The boxes might be really big, but you can do it.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2021

ve probably also heard of DevSecOps , which extends DevOps principles into the realm of security. In DevSecOps, security breaks out of its ???silo??? s often more challenging for developers to figure out is how to apply DevSecOps in practice. DevSecOps places a DevOps spin on basic security concepts. DevSecOps, defined.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 9, 2020

Microservices are changing how organizations are doing business. Microservices 1 is a powerful technology that is the kernel for modern cloud architecture, and it’s going to drive how people build, manage and deploy secure apps. At this level, microservices are cloud native. My key takeaways from KubeCon.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Mercedes-Benz disclosed late last week that sensitive personal information of less than 1,000 Mercedes-Benz customers and interested buyers was made accessible on a cloud storage platform – an issue experts say security teams can prevent by working more closely with third-party providers to lock down cloud databases.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. This is precisely what secrets management ensures. What is secrets management?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2019

The lively interactions in our booth validated that the Vormetric product line is still highly relevant and solves many of today’s challenges as customers move controls closer to the data, and also migrate their data to the cloud. evidenced by the acquisition of White Hat Security by NTT during the show last week).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Unfortunately, most organizations are unprepared to protect this ever-expanding attack surface, according to findings from the fourth edition of the Salt Labs pioneering “State of API Security” report. More than half of survey respondents (54%) indicated they've had to slow the rollout of new applications because of API security concerns.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2021

Application Security for builders and creators?—?part Previously on Application Security for builders and creators?—?Alice Claire suggests the team to engineer security into their app with ShiftLeft. As you might know we are planning to use docker and host the micro-services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). queried Bob.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, our industry can do “better” as not all of the security news the past year has been positive. The historic amount of coverage that data breaches have produced in 2018 has exposed executives and consumers to the importance of security, like no year before.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The Houston, Texas office of cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you think you can audit your cloud-based IT infrastructure the exact same way that you assess security and privacy on a traditional on-premises network, you may be due for a reality check. link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Cybersecurity can be difficult to implement, and to make matters worse, the security professionals needed to do it right are in short supply. Managed IT security service providers (MSSPs) make life easier for organizations by providing outsourced expertise and tools at a fraction of the cost, time, and trouble of doing it yourself.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 14, 2022

So, InfoSec relies on the Venafi-Vault integration, which makes it easy for developers to access machine identities while at the same time providing InfoSec visibility into how they’re being used. Q: So, how does Venafi-Vault Wizard make this important integration easier to set up? Increasing visibility without slowing down developers.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Vulnerability management improves the security posture of all IT systems by locating vulnerabilities, implementing security controls to fix or protect those vulnerabilities, and then testing the fixes to verify vulnerability resolution. What Is Vulnerability Management? Should Vulnerability and Patch Management Be Used Together?

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a result, development operations (DevOps) professionals must continuously improve the overall resilience —along with the security posture — of workloads, software, and applications (Figure 1). At Cisco, we learned early on that application security processes were inhibiting our business agility. Only 20% is custom code.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The group is targeting various operating systems including: Windows, different Linux distributions including Alpine (used for containers), AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Defenders should reference this guide to understand how to better defend against attacks like those used by TeamTNT. 7z to decompress downloaded files. See figure 5.).

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Thank you to Hugo as well for his BloodHound PR to implement this feature — we went with a different implementation for the GUI and database structure but wish to credit Hugo as a co-author for BloodHound 4.3. Cristian’s PRs also add support for Storage Accounts, which we will be including in a future update. New Features in BloodHound 4.3

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