Vulnerability management for remote workforce

Businesses always have had some remote workforce, but the current pandemic has resulted in an increased remote workforce. For most organizations nearly 90-100% workforce is now operating remotely (mostly work from home [WFH] cases). Functioning of this remote workforce is critical for business continuity. This has resulted in many sudden adjustments for IT and Security […]

Improving efficacy of AI/ML model to predict exploitability score for vulnerabilities

In an earlier blog, I talked about how machine learning can help predict exploitability score for a vulnerability. In this blog, I will elaborate on some of the finer aspects before comparing with an alternative means available. From a machine learning angle, it is important to identify & include relevant features and use a balanced […]

Predicting exploitability for a vulnerability as first step towards weaponization

Every piece of code is a potential source of vulnerabilities. This could be operating systems, containers, databases, web servers and the list just goes on. It also includes hardware devices like L2 / L3 network devices, healthcare devices, IOT devices and more. To further compound things, the rate at which vulnerabilities are discovered is growing […]

Improving Trust & Security in Open Source projects

In an earlier blog article last month, we talked about the top used open source projects from Census II report and security vulnerabilities in these projects. The exposure from using open source projects is real and certainly not insignificant. In this article, we will look at a companion report from Linux Foundation namely the “Improving […]

FOSS vulnerability creep

It is estimated that Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes nearly 80-90% of any given piece of modern software. All sectors (public/private/tech/non-tech) have heavy reliance on software. It is imperative then to ensure health and security of open source software. Linux Foundation founded the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) back in 2014. CII members provided […]

To err is developer (err human), no “secrets” there!

Developers are in a constant race against time to deliver new features and capabilities in software. Things are hastened with philosophies like “release early, release often”. This constant rush means that developers are bound to inadvertently make mistakes along the way. Developers are human after all. Hence, the focus needs to be on having the […]

Security shifts left

RSA recently published “20 Predictions for 2020”. These are spot on and interesting. While these predictions cover the complete security landscape, I would like to draw attention to one specific prediction here, “#5 – Security shifts left”. The basic idea with “security shifts left” is to ensure that DevOps teams perform required steps during CI/CD […]

Need for machine curated vulnerability intelligence

It is my pleasure to share this blog article authored by Rohit Ghai, who we are fortunate to have as our advisor. Rohit is renowned in the industry and he currently serves as President, RSA Security. Recruiting machines to fight the vulnerability crisis A central pillar in any cyber resilience strategy is the idea of […]

A deep dive into US GAO Critical Infrastructure Protection report

In our earlier blog US Electric Grid is “becoming more vulnerable to cyberattacks” says US GAO, we talked about US GAO assessment report [GAO-19-332] pertaining to Critical Infrastructure Protection at Electric Grids. In this blog, we will do a deep dive to better understand specifics from the report. For a high level overview of the […]