Applications
Stay up-to-date with the latest security technologies and best practices to secure software applications, identify vulnerabilities, and protect your code from potential threats. As software development accelerates, robust application security is essential to safeguard against exploits and breaches.
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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades
SAML is an open standard facilitating the communication and verification of credentials between identity providers and service providers for users everywhere. In 2005, the open standard consortium OASIS released SAML 2.0 to broad appeal. As smart mobile devices boomed, so did the number of web applications and the need to address never-ending logins. SAML was…
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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security
The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has long been essential for IT service management and remote access. Still, in the wrong hands, RDP attacks and vulnerabilities related to remote desktop software are a severe threat. Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. Because…
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Russia, China May Be Coordinating Cyber Attacks: SaaS Security Firm
A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. SaaS Alerts, which helps managed service providers (MSPs) manage and protect customers’ SaaS apps, mentioned the finding in conjunction with the release of its annual SaaS Application Security…
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Three Ways to Protect Unfixable Security Risks
How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? How can an industrial recycler safely secure its $400,000 hard drive recertification rack with control software that only runs on Windows XP? These are not uncommon risks. The devices themselves can’t be secured, but that doesn’t…
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Hiding Devices Using Port Knocking or Single-Packet Authorization (SPA)
Invisibility sounds like something out of a fantasy novel, but if done properly, we can use it to hide computers, gateways, or individual PCs by implementing specific firewall techniques like port knocking or single-packet authorization (SPA). The effectiveness of the technique has a lot in common with the traditional fantasy concept of invisibility and will be…
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Best Facial Recognition Software for Enterprises
Facial recognition software (FRS) is a biometric tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan human facial features to produce a code. It compares this code with its existing database to determine if an individual will be granted or denied access to a piece of information, equipment or premises. The technology…
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Microsoft Blocks VBA Macros by Default, Temporarily Shuts Down MSIX Protocol
Microsoft is shutting a couple of security holes, including one that has been a favored target of attackers for years and another that the enterprise software giant recently learned could be exploited to install a malicious package. At the same time, the federal government is now adding another Microsoft flaw to its list of known…
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Zoom Security Issues Are a Wakeup Call for Enterprises
Video conferencing vendor Zoom has seen its fortunes soar amid the remote work boom of the last two years, and other cloud collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex have seen demand skyrocket too. The sharp increase in demand put a focus on security shortcomings in Zoom’s architecture – “Zoombombing” became a thing –…
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How Hackers Compromise the Software Supply Chain
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without a new vulnerability demonstrating the fragility of the software interdependencies that make up the software supply chain. A large part of software development leverages the benefits of open-source platforms and third-party vendors to deliver results on time. A wide range of people and organizations maintain those…
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5 Trends in Patch Management
The profile of patch management has risen considerably in the last year due to the number of major breaches that have taken place where basic patches had been overlooked. News stories repeatedly note that the organizations impacted by breaches had often failed to install high-priority security patches from the likes of Microsoft Exchange, Fortinet, and…
