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Azure Deployment Scripts: Assuming User-Assigned Managed Identities

NetSpi Technical

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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GUEST ESSAY: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework update extends best practices to supply chain, AI

The Last Watchdog

Here are the core components the security community knows: Govern (GV): Sets forth the strategic path and guidelines for managing cybersecurity risks, ensuring harmony with business goals and adherence to legal requirements and standards. Importantly, it better incorporates and expands upon supply chain risk management processes.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why internal IT teams are ill-equipped to adequately address cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

Related: The case for augmented reality training Because of this, cybersecurity investments and regulatory oversight are increasing at an astounding rate , especially for those in the financial services industry, bringing an overwhelming feeling to chief compliance officers without dedicated security teams. Open are slim to none.

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NSA on Authentication Hacks (Related to SolarWinds Breach)

Schneier on Security

The actors leverage privileged access in the on-premises environment to subvert the mechanisms that the organization uses to grant access to cloud and on-premises resources and/or to compromise administrator credentials with the ability to manage cloud resources.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Here’s why companies are increasingly turning to MSSPs for deeper help

The Last Watchdog

Managed Security Service Providers, MSSPs, have been around for some time now as a resource to help companies operate more securely. By one estimate, companies are on track to spend $77 billion on MSSP services by 2030, up from $22 billion in 2020. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Dealing with the return of computing workloads to on-premises datacenters

The Last Watchdog

However, a “back-migration,” as Michiel De Lepper , global enablement manager, at London-based Runecast , puts it, is also ramping up. This is because certain workloads are proving to be too costly to run in the cloud — resource-intensive AI modeling being the prime example.

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3 tips for mitigating cloud-related cybersecurity risks

Tech Republic Security

Find out why cloud computing is leading IT security pros to reevaluate their in-house cybersecurity practices as well as resources provided by managed service providers.