Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was a busy year for the cyber security community. Emerging threats posed many challenges to security professionals and created many opportunities for threat actors. Behavior-based detection and proactive approaches such as attack simulation and security control validation becomes more important each day.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2023

A pentest framework, or penetration testing framework, is a standardized set of guidelines and suggested tools for structuring and conducting effective pentests across different networks and security environments. In some cases, this phase is also called the discovery, testing, scanning, or assessment phase.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 27, 2023

Penetration testing is a critical cybersecurity and compliance tool today, but it's also highly misunderstood. First, pen tests have materially changed in the last couple of years, and many CIOs and CISOs still think of pen tests the way they used to be. The differing opinions begin with the best ways to leverage pen testing.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

According to security experts at Fox-IT, a recently addressed flaw in the Cobalt Strike penetration testing platform could be exploited to identify attacker servers. The Java-based platform is composed of two components, the implant (the beacon) and a server (the team server). ” reads the advisory published by Fox-IT.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By Alfredo Hickman, head of information security, Obsidian Security. Each of these SaaS applications differs widely from the next and poses a unique set of security capabilities and challenges. At the end of the day, SaaS, similar to IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services, is another security operating domain.

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NopSec

APRIL 9, 2019

The Lines Are Blurring NopSec started as a penetration testing service delivery company at my kitchen table. The one-time security penetration testing baseline assessment then evolved into an on-going Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company focused on security vulnerability management (VM) and ongoing remediation workflow platform.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

Red teams and pen tests are point in time assessments. What if you could simulate an ongoing attack to test your teams’ readiness? Anyway, what if there was a way to simulate attacks on your networks. Yeah, there’s red teams. So why not just hire a Red Team?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cain and Alexander DeMine Overview Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) is a security technology which has been gaining popularity for large businesses securing their enterprise networks in recent years. Slow browsing leads to unhappy users and unhappy users lead to security products being removed. Authored By: Lance B.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Table of Contents What is penetration testing? How penetration testing is done How to choose a penetration testing company How NetSPI can help Penetration testing enables IT security teams to demonstrate and improve security in networks, applications, the cloud, hosts, and physical locations.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

You’re about to have your first Red Team experience, or maybe your first one in the CISO seat of your organization. What if I Have Specific Objectives for Red Teaming? How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? Who you provide advanced notice to is up to you.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2022

For as long as I’ve been working in security, initial access has generally looked the same. This observation has grown into more of a concern for me as I’ve watched teams struggle to detect even slight variations to the expected flow. We see adversaries using this technique with great deals of success, so we build detections for it.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S. Given its broader availability combined with the right exploit, wiper malware could cause massive destruction in a short period of time, said Derek Manky, chief security strategist and VP of global threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs. Trade Cyberthreats.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Penetration testing is a critically important cybersecurity practice, but one that many organizations lack the on-staff skills to do themselves. Fortunately, there are many pentesting services out there that can do the job for them across a range of budgets and needs.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Near the end of this article all the tactics and techniques used by the adversary are listed with links to the MITRE website with more information. In all the intrusions we have observed they are performed in similar ways by the adversary: from initial access all the way to actions on objectives. Network discovery and lateral movement.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

You’re about to have your first Red Team experience, or maybe your first one in the CISO seat of your organization. What if I Have Specific Objectives for Red Teaming? How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? Who you provide advanced notice to is up to you.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over the past twelve months, this abbreviation has resonated across innumerable headlines, business surveys and tech reports, firmly securing a position as the Collins English Dictionary’s 2023 Word of the Year. The security issues discussed above are not the only ones related to LLMs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2021

Today, most security control resources are deployed on threat detection and response products. Battery based home security systems, too, are often built with a secondary electrical power source to act as a failsafe if an intruder disables the battery or an owner simply fails to remember. Yet manual testing has drawbacks.

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NopSec

MAY 17, 2022

Active Directory provides a fairly elegant means to securely connect disparate domain resources; however, this comes at the cost of complexity. A mind-bending, security-defeating amount of complexity. However, the adversarial utility of NTLM in red teaming or penetration testing is diminishing with time.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) is a relatively new IT security technology that can automatically spot vulnerabilities in an organization’s cyber defenses, akin to continuous, automated penetration testing. As the industry develops, several vendors refer to advanced BAS solutions as security validation. Picus Security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2022

Threat actors are abusing legitimate adversary simulation software BRc4 in their campaigns to evade detection. The tool was specifically designed to avoid detection by security solutions such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and antivirus (AV). ” reads the description of the tool on its website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Super Bowl LV featured an enticing matchup between two powerhouse teams and two star quarterbacks. State-sponsored actors often use international events as practice against well-funded and modern security measures, or as an opportunity to flex some cyber muscle when allowing for modest attribution with just a pinch of plausible deniability.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

With almost every aspect of business becoming more digital, enterprise network security software minimizes the impact of cyberattacks — especially as guarding against them protects a company’s operations and safeguards its competitiveness in a fast-moving marketplace. Top network security tools. Network Security Product.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

MITRE ATT&CK catalogs the known tactics, techniques, and procedures of past advanced persistent threats , providing a roadmap for any red or blue team. And as a corporation, MITRE is sponsored by US federal agencies such as FAA, IRS, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and NIST.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

MITRE ATT&CK catalogs the known tactics, techniques, and procedures of past advanced persistent threats , providing a roadmap for any red or blue team. And as a corporation, MITRE is sponsored by US federal agencies such as FAA, IRS, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and NIST.

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