Deconstructing Azure Access Management using RBAC
March 10, 2021Take a focused look at the basics of Azure RBAC (role based access control) -- the main mechanism in Azure for granting permissions to resources. Familiarize you with Azure AD identities and find out how to grant them access to your organization’s resources.
Infrastructure as Code Security Requires Programmatic Controls
March 9, 2021Empower develops with a programmatic approach to security. Here's what you need to know. The concept of shifting security as far left into development as possible is not new, and it is fairly easy ...
Static Lists Are The Wrong Way to Do Attack Surface Mapping
March 8, 2021When identifying and cataloging assets, static lists leave your organization vulnerable to constant changes across your attack surface.
CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065: Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Exploited in the Wild
March 2, 2021Four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers have been used in chained attacks in the wild.Update March 8, 2021: The Identifying Affected Systems section has been updated with informati...
Keep Your IAM Users Close, Keep Your Third Parties Even Closer
January 28, 2021Technical and legal controls that you take for granted when managing cybersecurity policy within your organization are usually out of reach when a third party is compromised.
Auditing iam:PassRole: A Problematic Privilege Escalation Permission
January 13, 2021How to determine which identities need iam:PassRole to help enforce “use it or lose it” least privilege.
Cloud infrastructure is not immune from the SolarWinds Orion breach
December 23, 2020Organizations exposed to the SolarWinds breach must identify exposed credentials and rotate them asap.
The AWS Managed Policies Trap
December 20, 2020These policies are simultaneously appealing and dangerous. Here’s how to use automated analysis of environment configuration and activity logs to avoid getting caught in the trap.
Who Holds the Keys to the Kingdom?
November 15, 2020Take a closer look at sensitive AWS Resources:secret strings and keys used in AWS, learn about the Resources and access control mechanisms relevant to them, delve into the challenges of tracking the permissions granted to them, and see ways in which automating analysis of environment configuration and logs in AWS can help.
CVE-2020-14882: Oracle WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
October 29, 2020A remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server has been actively exploited in the wild just one week after a patch was released and one day after a proof of concept was published.Upda...
AWS Identity Federation and Least Privilege – Friends or Foes?
October 7, 2020Learn how to address the challenges in basic and advanced implementations of AWS federation.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in CodeMeter Leave Managed Industrial Control Systems Open to Attack
September 29, 2020Six vulnerabilities in a popular license management product put industrial control systems at risk for remote attacks. Background On September 8, researchers at Claroty published their detailed anal...
