TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s no secret that digital supply chains are increasingly under attack as hackers look to use this vector to get access to company networks and confidential information. But that also means businesses have to figure out ways to secure their assets even when they sit outside of the attack surface they would traditionally focus on.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In fact, manufacturing was one of the sectors most impacted by extortion attacks last year, according to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, as reported in the 2023 Unit 42 Extortion and Ransomware Report. Attacks against OT systems can have a significant impact, including physical consequences such as shutdowns, outages, leakages, or worse.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Think about how technological advances have influenced consumers to gradually shift their focus from products to platforms, transactions to experiences, and data to decisions. At the same time, the influx of new technologies and new business models is introducing myriad vulnerabilities and expanding the threat surface area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Detectify , a security platform that employs ethical hackers to conduct attacks designed to highlight vulnerabilities in corporate systems, today announced that it raised $10 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners. Teams will be notified if attacks on vectors like hosts, domains or DNS records are detected, Carlsson says. .

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Darktrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Today Darktrace announced the acquisition of best-in-class Attack Surface Management company Cybersprint. Read this blog to learn why this is hugely exciting for both our companies, our customers and the wider security industry.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Organizations are evolving to meet the demands of cloud and hybrid work, but this acceleration leads to an expansion in their unmanaged attack surface. No industry showed a reduction in attack surface risks. Meanwhile, their attack surface continues to grow at alarming rates.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Traceable AI , a startup offering services designed to protect APIs from cyberattacks, today announced that it raised $60 million in a Series B round led by IVP with participation from BIG Labs, Unusual Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and several undisclosed angel investors. undocumented) and “orphaned” (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Both have backgrounds in product management — Scharfstein worked at Google, and Dhesi held roles at Facebook, DoorDash and Square. The surface area of these attacks have been growing as people innovate and create new schemes — there’s more ways for people to phish you.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Companies that defend APIs from outside attack have been particularly fruitful, lately, with startups such as Ghost Security and Corsha raising tens of millions of dollars in capital. “The products available required endless tuning and rule-writing and returned piles of false positives. Image Credits: ThreatX.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Production lines, networks, call centers: every aspect of your organization is being revolutionized in different ways by technology such as AI, automation, edge computing and the many flavors of cloud. Like any major technology transformation project, it requires expertise in planning, design, implementation and project management.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 20, 2024

Reducing point product complexity, what the industry calls platformization , and embracing the power of artificial intelligence may hold the solution. Against a backdrop of ever-increasing risks and expanding attack surfaces, significant cybersecurity incidents are continuing.

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Ivanti

JUNE 20, 2023

Increases in attack surface size lead to increased cybersecurity risk. Thus, logically, decreases in attack surface size lead to decreased cybersecurity risk. While some attack surface management solutions offer remediation capabilities that aid in this effort, remediation is reactive.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Unfortunately, understanding the struggles of the IT “engine room” didn’t impress other managers who were more focused on the end business and could care less if we had to creatively manage the nightly batch processing window to be open for business the next morning, as long as we managed it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The company offers an insurance product as well as a service that monitors your attack surface. Stoïk targets SMEs specifically as they are quite vulnerable when it comes to ransomware and other cyber attacks. But what we’re going to sell is the insurance product. The startup recently raised a $4.3 million (€3.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

CEO Greg Martin said that the capital will go toward expanding the team, building Ghost’s product, and launching pilots with potential customers. But increasingly, apps and APIs have become attack vectors. Eric Cornelius, chief product officer, was the deputy director of the U.S.

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Tenable

AUGUST 30, 2023

When Tenable Nessus was launched in 1998, the attack surface consisted of only traditional IT devices — desktops, workstations, network equipment, etc. With the emergence of new technologies, the modern attack surface has expanded and threat actors are taking advantage of these new areas to infiltrate countless networks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

A lot of information can be gleaned about a surface area just by taking the ground temperature data. Now, with a new $5 million injection in seed funding, he hopes to launch Hydrosat’s first surface temperature analytics product for customers. Air Force and Department of Defense.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2023

But while organizations look to incorporate elements of generative AI to strengthen efficiency and productivity, others are worried about controlling its usage within the enterprise. Today, it is, as they create a mysterious new risk and attack surface to defend against. Privacy leaks?

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Ermetic has developed an end-to-end cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) and is a thought leader in cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM). What impressed us about Ermetic is the elegantly integrated multi-cloud CNAPP product the company has built, with an intuitive user experience made for the cloud-native world.

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Lacework

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Over the past several weeks, Lacework has observed a significant uptick in AWS instance credential compromises that were traced to Grafana server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. This sampling could be representative of a much larger attack surface across all cloud infrastructure. Why Grafana? What is SSRF?

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2024

Frequently asked questions about CVE-2024-3094, a supply-chain attack responsible for a backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used library found in multiple Linux distributions. Has Tenable released any product coverage for these vulnerabilities? As of March 29, Tenable Research is investigating product coverage.

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Tenable

JANUARY 16, 2024

An authenticated attacker with low level privileges could exploit this vulnerability if they are able to access NetScaler IP (NSIP), Subnet IP (SNIP), or cluster management IP (CLIP) with access to the appliance’s management interface. and later releases of 13.0 NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway 13.1 before 13.1-51.15

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

The WAN architecture must cater to the needs of office and remote workers with parity in terms of routing policies, security profile, and management of the WAN.” . “COVID-19 has accelerated a trend toward a massively distributed enterprise moving network functionality to the edge of the network,” IDC analysts advise.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Frequently asked questions about two vulnerabilities affecting ConnectWise ScreenConnect Background The Tenable Security Response Team has put together this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding two vulnerabilities impacting ScreenConnect, a Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution from ConnectWise.

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Tenable

JULY 12, 2022

With the introduction of Nessus Expert, you can now protect against new, emerging cyberthreats across cloud infrastructure and understand what's in your external attack surface. Yet, developers aren’t following security best practices before pushing to production, which increases risk.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

According to Cisco, the vulnerability exists due to the “improper separation of authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) between the remote access VPN feature and the HTTPS management and site-to-site VPN features.” In addition, either SSL VPN or IKEv2 VPN must be enabled on at least one interface.

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Tenable

APRIL 17, 2024

This CPU contains fixes for 239 CVEs in 441 security updates across 30 Oracle product families. Severity Issues Patched CVEs Critical 38 21 High 188 79 Medium 196 122 Low 19 17 Total 441 239 Analysis This quarter, the Oracle Commerce product family contained the highest number of patches at 93, accounting for 21.1%

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2024

The attack surface. There are options that help companies manage disparate tasks, projects, and resources. It means rock-solid identity management so that systems, data, and applications are accessed by the right people – and IP addresses – at the right time. Anti-virus. Authentication. Data at rest. Data in motion.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In our latest executive advisory, Navigating the Evolving Threat Landscape: Resilient Cybersecurity Tactics for CISOs , we highlight a couple attacker trends, what they mean, and what you can do about them. The bottom line: attackers are becoming more tenacious and resilient to defense. And, they deserve to be.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Censys’ attack surface management platform continuously discovers businesses’ internet assets and monitors them, identifying security issues and preventing oversights from becoming vulnerabilities by ensuring that assets are protected by integrating with existing security solutions. .

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Tenable

JANUARY 3, 2023

External attack surface management (EASM) is difficult and oftentimes confusing, especially in a world of poor inventory controls and a growing attack surface. And external, public-facing assets tend to be the most vulnerable because they are the most accessible to external attackers.

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Tenable

MARCH 20, 2024

In this post, we dive deeper into four strategies to gain complete IT, OT and IoT asset visibility, and how Tenable’s exposure management platform can improve your security posture. Discover assets and monitor risks OT and IoT environments comprise a diverse range of devices with varying management methods and communication protocols.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Also, Uncle Sam says it’s time to prep for deepfake attacks. government, which this week published an 18-page guide titled “ Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations ," intended to help organizations defend themselves from deepfake attacks. For more information about deepfake attacks: “ Does your boss sound a little funny?

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Prisma Clud

MARCH 20, 2024

GigaOm named Prisma Cloud a Leader in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Container Security , and now Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). Identity and access management (IAM) in the cloud is challenging. Especially as organizations deal with entitlement sprawl and managing machine identities.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Their 2024 forecasts include: A bigger security role for cloud architects; a focus by ransomware gangs on OT systems in critical industries; an intensification of IAM attacks; and much more! Thus, organizations will accelerate their efforts to consolidate cloud security products and vendors.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Based on investigations conducted by our Unit 42 team, we know that threat actors are carrying out end-to-end attacks faster, from initial compromise, all the way to data exfiltration in just a matter of hours. Considering that companies take an average of 5.5 All of these tools have different consoles and store data separately.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Critical Additionally, Fortinet patched three other vulnerabilities in FortiOS and FortiProxy, including a fix for the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack: CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity Advisory CVE-2024-23113 Fortinet FortiOS Format String Vulnerability 9.8 Exploitation was corroborated through the analysis of the SSL VPN crash logs.

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