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How Outpost24 Secures the SDLC

13.Jul.2020

Eren Cihangir, Sales Engineer at Outpost24

At Outpost24, we’re committed to providing information security testing solutions to not only fit seamlessly into the SDLC, but also to enhance our customers’ experiences in implementing and maintaining their best practices to ensure their SDLC leads to a strong security posture and comprehensive resiliency around their full stack.

Fix now: High risk vulnerabilities at large, July 2020

02.Jul.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

In the world of vulnerabilities, we have seen a few interesting ones released in the last couple of weeks since our last Farsight risk-based vulnerability management blog in June, including some recently discovered by Palo Alto affecting D-Link Routers. Read on for more information on how to prioritize these vulnerabilities for patching to mitigate risk.

What are Security Misconfigurations and how to prevent them?

30.Jun.2020

Sergio Loureiro, Cloud Director

Misconfigurations are often seen as an easy target, as it can be easy to detect on misconfigured web servers, cloud and applications and then becomes exploitable, causing significant harm and leading to catastrophic data leakage issues for enterprises like the 2019 Teletext exposure of 530,000 data files which was caused by an insecurely configured Amazon Web Service (AWS) web server.

Fix now: High risk vulnerabilities at large, June 2020 part 2

17.Jun.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

In the world of vulnerabilities, we have seen a few interesting ones released in the last couple of weeks since our last Farsight risk based vulnerability management blog covering the CERT Top 10. Read on for more information on how to prioritize these vulnerabilities for patching to mitigate risk.

Social distancing times are social engineering times

12.Jun.2020

Martin Jartelius, CSO, Outpost24

Recently, we encountered an attacker who had taken efficient spear-phishing to an interesting and increased level of consistency and automation. We’ve also seen firsthand the speed at which this attacker learned from some initial mistakes to launch their successful attack which we identify in the examples in this blog.

Fix now: High risk vulnerabilities at large, June 2020

01.Jun.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

On May 12, 2020 CERT released an alert entitled top 10 routinely exploited vulnerabilities identified by U.S Government, we put them through our predictive risk based vulnerability prioritization tool Farsight to provide more context into the risk.

Spring 2020 Product Release

28.May.2020

We’ve delivered some major new product features in our spring release to help you manage vulnerabilities more effectively and maintain security hygiene across the full technology stack. At a glance we have seven new features and enhancements to highlight to customers

DBIR 2020 – Lessons learned from the misfortune of the collective

21.May.2020

Martin Jartelius, CSO at Outpost24

From hacking, malware to error, the 2020 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) by Verizon reveals the top attack vectors and most common culprits for data breaches, you guessed it – substandard cyber hygiene. Here our security expert provides a quick summary of the report findings and practical advice for preventing hacker pivots and lifting cyber hygiene.

A guide for meeting wireless PCI compliance

19.May.2020

John Stock, Wireless Security Manager Outpost24

PCI compliance is critical to any business processing cardholder information. Every day we hear about massive data breaches involving consumer cardholder information impacting big brand retailers, banks, and businesses with public-facing ecommerce/payment servers. So what is the PCI compliance standard and how can organizations protect point-of-sale data over wireless networks

Fix now: High risk vulnerabilities at large, May 2020

12.May.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

In the world of vulnerabilities, we have seen a few interesting ones released in the last couple of weeks since our last Farsight risk based vulnerability management blog. Various countries cyber security departments are warning citizen’s and business of the increase in phishing attack targeting people’s natural curiosity and fear surrounding COVID-19.