Blog (FR)

Spring 2020 Product Release

28.mai.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.mai.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.mai.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.mai.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.

Responsible disclosure: Multiple stored XSS vulnerabilities discovered in ServiceNow ITSM by Outpost24

05.mai.2020

Hugo van den Toorn, Manager Offensive Security at Outpost24

During a web application pentest by our Ghost Labs OffSec team in March last year, we discovered multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on the widely popular ServiceNow IT Service Management software. After informing our customers, we reached out to the vendor (ServiceNow). In collaboration with them, the vulnerabilities are quickly triaged and remediated in later versions of the product. To remediate we urge users of the ServiceNow platform to upgrade to the latest stable version. We would like to thank ServiceNow’s security team for their swift and adequate response.

Fix now: High risk vulnerabilities at large, April 2020

22.avr.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

With much of the world in lockdown, and many of us on enforced work from home measures due to COVID-19, keeping on top of the latest vulnerabilities may have fallen off your radar. But as the pandemic has unleashed a wave of cyber attacks to exploit remote workers and scam anxious customers, strengthening your cyber hygiene should be a priority.

A CISO’s guide to boosting security awareness and morale in turbulent times

01.avr.2020

Charlie Eriksen, CTO Adversary

During uncertain times, it’s more important than ever for businesses to install trust amongst their employees to ensure they are maintaining the same strict levels of security as the pandemic has become a hotbed for cyberattacks. CISOs and business leaders are having to scale back staff amidst an outbreak when moving to different working patterns and they’re looking to their existing teams to fly the security flag for their wider businesses.

So what can CISOs do to get the best from their staff during this outbreak to ensure security standards are maintained and we can start hiring again?

Cybersecurity tips to keep your employees and business safe amid Coronavirus outbreak

24.mar.2020

Outpost24 cyber security experts have shared their practical tips for businesses and employees whilst we come to terms with this global health emergency, coronavirus. Whilst dealing with this unforeseen tragedy and trying to maintain a ‘business as usual’ methodology we want to help security professionals to effectively facilitate working from home patterns and sharing of information safely which could affect your security exposure during these uncertain times.

Risk based vulnerability management: reduce and prioritize remediation efforts with likelihood of an actual attack

23.mar.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

With too many vulnerabilities to deal with and too little time (and resource) all you need is perspective. As Gartner put it nicely ‘a vulnerability is only as bad as the threat exploiting it and the impact on the organization’, the trick here is to prioritize remediations with a framework that focus on likelihood of an actual attack rather than perceived risk

What’s in a risk score? Implementing a Risk based remediation strategy using machine learning

17.mar.2020

Simon Roe, Product Manager Outpost24

The biggest challenge for vulnerability management today lies in prioritization. With organizations being pressured on time and resources to effectively remediate vulnerabilities, it’s important to turn to a risk based remediation strategy. With Outpost24 Farsight we provide organizations the ability to do just that.