This document discusses the security implications of cloud computing and summarizes a presentation by Ben Masino of Alert Logic. It notes that web application attacks are now the number one source of data breaches, but less than 5% of security budgets are spent on application security. It also outlines some of the challenges in defending applications and workloads in the cloud, including a wide range of attacks at every layer of the stack and vulnerabilities introduced through rapidly changing code and third party tools. The document then provides an example of a data exfiltration attack against a textile company, where the attacker was able to access critical systems and steal financial and design data by exploiting known PHP flaws and leveraging captured credentials.
DevSecCon Talk: An experiment in agile Threat ModellingzeroXten
ThreatSpec aims to close the gap between development and security by bringing the threat modelling process further into the development process. This is achieved by having developers and security engineers write threat specifications alongside code, then dynamically generating reports and data-flow diagrams from the code.
I'm Ian. I do that geek thing.
This is an introductory deck on why an SDL or quality/secure software program is a good idea.
I can be found here:
http://gorrie.org
@gorrie
Web App Security Presentation by Ryan Holland - 05-31-2017TriNimbus
Web App Security - A presentation by Ryan Holland, Sr. Director, Cloud Architecture at Alert Logic for the Vancouver AWS User Group Meetup on May 31, 2017.
Web applications are commonly used to transmit, accept and store data that is personal, company confidential and sensitive.
More enterprises are spending more time testing web applications, but many still do not integrate security testing into an application's overall test plan.
In this presentation, we explore ways to integrate security testing into an end-to-end test plan, exercise security features in unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests.
Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the CloudMarkAnnati
Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Cloud
Presented by Marija Strazdas - Sr. Solutions Engineer, Alert Logic
Presented to the Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group on Jun 5 & 21
https://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Amazon-Web-Services-Meetup-Group/
Summary/Themes:
- Understanding your attack surface is critical to deploying the right security controls.
- Attack surface in the cloud environments is significantly different than on-premises
- Dominant cloud exposures are often misunderstood
Next Dimension and Veeam | Solutions for PIPEDA ComplianceNext Dimension Inc.
Chris and Sean from Veeam discuss Availability, Disaster Recovery, and updating records per PIPEDA legislation. Veeam also discusses their solution to ransomware.
DevSecCon Talk: An experiment in agile Threat ModellingzeroXten
ThreatSpec aims to close the gap between development and security by bringing the threat modelling process further into the development process. This is achieved by having developers and security engineers write threat specifications alongside code, then dynamically generating reports and data-flow diagrams from the code.
I'm Ian. I do that geek thing.
This is an introductory deck on why an SDL or quality/secure software program is a good idea.
I can be found here:
http://gorrie.org
@gorrie
Web App Security Presentation by Ryan Holland - 05-31-2017TriNimbus
Web App Security - A presentation by Ryan Holland, Sr. Director, Cloud Architecture at Alert Logic for the Vancouver AWS User Group Meetup on May 31, 2017.
Web applications are commonly used to transmit, accept and store data that is personal, company confidential and sensitive.
More enterprises are spending more time testing web applications, but many still do not integrate security testing into an application's overall test plan.
In this presentation, we explore ways to integrate security testing into an end-to-end test plan, exercise security features in unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests.
Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the CloudMarkAnnati
Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Cloud
Presented by Marija Strazdas - Sr. Solutions Engineer, Alert Logic
Presented to the Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group on Jun 5 & 21
https://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Amazon-Web-Services-Meetup-Group/
Summary/Themes:
- Understanding your attack surface is critical to deploying the right security controls.
- Attack surface in the cloud environments is significantly different than on-premises
- Dominant cloud exposures are often misunderstood
Next Dimension and Veeam | Solutions for PIPEDA ComplianceNext Dimension Inc.
Chris and Sean from Veeam discuss Availability, Disaster Recovery, and updating records per PIPEDA legislation. Veeam also discusses their solution to ransomware.
Microsoft has announced the BlueKeep vulnerability, a wormable Remote Desktop vulnerability that has a high potential of being exploited in legacy operating systems.
Be warned, this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with no authentication required. Protect yourself from what people are calling the next WannaCry.
Four Network Security Challenges for the Cloud GenerationAboutSSL
Users are everywhere and need quick access to data and cloud applications around the clock. Your network protection must balance security, performance, complexity, and cost. Symantec Web Security Services protects you with uncompromised network security, delivered from the cloud.
Safeguarding the Digital Realm Understanding CyberAttacks and Their Vital Cou...cyberprosocial
With the digital world becoming an essential aspect of our connected environment, there is always a risk of cyberattacks. The phrase "CyberAttacks" refers to a broad category of malevolent actions directed towards computer networks
DevOps Indonesia "How Security with DevOps can Deliver more secure software"
Leveraging Vulnerability Management Beyond DPR (Discovery - Prioritization - Remediation) by Mr. Faisal Yahya
How to avoid cyber security attacks in 2024 - CyberHive.pdfonline Marketing
Technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Among these challenges, the threat of cyber security attacks looms large. This poses significant risks to individuals, businesses, and governments alike. The importance of adopting robust security measures cannot be overstated. please visit: https://www.cyberhive.com/insights/how-to-avoid-cyber-security-attacks-in-2024/
Risk and Threat Assessment Report Anthony WolfBSA 5.docxjoellemurphey
Risk and Threat Assessment Report
Anthony Wolf
BSA/ 520
May 11th, 2020
Jeffery McDonough
Running head: RISK AND THREAT ASSESSMENT REPORT
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RISK AND THREAT ASSESMENT REPORT
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Risk and Threat Assessment Report
The rise of innovation and technological advancement has affected the aspects of technology in different ways. Improvement of software and operating systems gives hackers a reason to strive and develop more complex forms of overweighing security measures on those applications. Traditional application security best practices and secure coding are often recommended in protecting different applications against runtime attacks.
Runtime application self-protection is an emerging application in the protection of software applications, data, and databases. The increase in attacks has triggered the development of security technology that is linked or build into an application runtime environment. Besides, database deployment is safeguarded by run time application self-protection that can control the execution of applications, detecting, and preventing real-time attacks. The threats and risks associated with operating systems, networks, and software systems are significant concerns to users.
The internet has changed how people do their businesses. With the growth of e-commerce and other online transactions, there has been a subsequent increase in internet risk threats that are commonly occasioned by hacking and malware attacks. There are different types of e-commerce threats and might be accidental, deliberately done by perpetrators, or occur due to human error. The most prevalent threats are money theft, unprotected services, credit card fraud, hacking, data misuse, and phishing attacks. Heats associated with online transactions can be prevented or reduced by keeping the credit cards safe. Consumers/customers should be advised to avoid carrying their credit cards in their wallets since they increase the chances of misplacement. Each buyer should be cautious when using their you’re their online credit information.
The advancement in technology has seen an increase in online transactions. The practice of doing business transactions via the internet is called e-commerce. Their growth has subsequently lead to the rise in internet risk threats that are commonly occasioned by hacking and malware attacks. E-commerce is the activity of conducting transactions via the internet. Internet transactions can be drawn on various technologies, including internet marketing, electronic data exchanges, automated data collection systems, electronic fund transfer, and mobile commerce.
Online transaction threats occur by using the internet for unfair means with the aim of fraud, security breach, and stealing. The use of electronic payment systems has a substantial risk of fraud. It uses the identity of a customer to authorize a payment like security questions and passwords. If someone accesses a customer's password, he will gain access to his accounts and ...
Cyber Security is a crucial and rising part of concern in the present age with a rapid increase in the graph of digitization. And with an increase in the activities in cyberspace, there is also an increase in the cyber-crimes. Handling the huge volumes of data with security has become an inevitable need of the hour. Antivirus software, Firewalls, and other technological solutions help to secure this data but are not sufficient enough to prevent the cybercrooks from destructing the network and stealing confidential information. This paper mainly focuses on the issues and challenges faced by cybersecurity. It also discusses the risks, cybersecurity techniques to curb cyber-crime, cyber ethics, and cyber trends.
Mitigating Risk in Aging Federal IT SystemsBeyondTrust
Securing aging outdated infrastructure from external and insider threats is difficult at best. But, wherever you are today on the path to modernization, there are impactful steps you can take to further mitigate risk.
In this presentation from his webinar, BeyondTrust’s Senior Federal Engineer, Shunta Sanders, explores:
- The kinds of risk legacy Federal IT solutions pose to security
- Tactics Federal IT professionals are using to combat cyber risk
- 4 best practices to secure environments today, and post-modernization
You can watch the full, on-demand webinar here: https://www.beyondtrust.com/resources/webinar/mitigating-risk-aging-federal-systems/
When you’re planning to move to the cloud and manage a hybrid environment, security is a top concern. But cloud is not necessarily less secure than a traditional environment. In fact, it may be possible to deliver even greater security in a hybrid cloud environment because it offers new and advanced opportunities.
In this eBook, you’ll discover how hackers are using traditional tactics in new ways to attack the cloud. You’ll also find out how the cloud can help you increase security with innovative approaches designed to detect threats long before they threaten your enterprise.
Strengthening security posture for modern-age SaaS providersCloudflare
Businesses become more resilient in times of crises. This is especially true for SaaS businesses that are facing unprecedented challenges in this environment. While some are catering to a surge in traffic, others are figuring out innovative solutions to retain their customers. In addition, increasing malicious attacks are straining the resources of these SaaS businesses.
Now more than ever, it is important for SaaS providers to deliver an uninterrupted experience. One that is fast, secure, and reliable to their customers in a cost effective manner.
Join this webcast to learn more about how ActiveCampaign leverages Cloudflare to deliver meaningful services to their end users.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Network Security.pdfCareerera
The world is abuzz with innovations to harness the power of global IT. Network security is one such invention contrived for the cyber and digital world that is woven by the web of the internet of things. Network Security covers many applications, including devices, processes, and technology. To put it in the most basic terms, it implies a set of rules and regulations employing both software and hardware technologies with the objective to safeguard the fundamental principles of cyber security - Confidentiality, Integrity, and Accessibility. There is a need for network security in every organization cutting across variance of sectors regardless of their size and structure. The principal motive is to secure the organization. Securing your network is what network security is all about. Private networks, like those within a firm, can be private or public. Preventing any misuse or illegal access to the network or its resources is part of network security. To access data relevant to them, each user is given a unique user ID and password. No user is allowed to enter the network without this authentication. The network administrator is in charge of the network's operations. As with any technical area, there are advantages and disadvantages of Network Security. We will learn all about them today here in this post.
Advantages of Network Security
Keep your data safe previously stated, network security prevents illegal access. A network holds a lot of sensitive information, such as personal customer information. Anyone who gains access to the network could jeopardize this critical information. As a result, network security should be in place to safeguard them. Protects against cyber-attacks the internet is the source of the majority of network attacks. There are professionals in this field, and then there are virus attacks. They can play with a lot of information available in the network if they aren't careful. Computers will not be harmed as a result of these attacks if network protection is in place. Accessibility levels different users have different levels of access to the security software. After the user's authentication, the authorization approach is used to determine whether the user is authorized to access a specific resource. You may have noticed that some shared documents have been password-restricted for security reasons. The software clearly understands who has access to which resources. Centrally Controlled Network security software, unlike desktop security software, is managed by a single user known as the network administrator. While the former is vulnerable to worms and viruses, the latter can prevent hackers from causing damage. This is due to the software being installed on a machine that does not have access to the internet. Updates from a central location are critical that anti-virus software be updated on a regular basis. You may not have enough security against attackers if you are using an older version.
As cyber attacks and network hacks become increasingly sophisticated, not only do you have to set up security infrastructure complete with firewalls, anti-virus software, malware scanners and intrusion prevention, but you have to maintain all this stuff daily. It’s a moving target and you don’t have the time to do it full time! Enter managed security, also known as cloud-based or hosted security. See this slideshow snapshot of the presentation.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Denial of Service
Crimeware
Physical Theft / Loss
Payment Card Skimmers
Everything Else
Cyber-espionage
Privilege Misuse
Miscellaneous Errors
POS Intrusions
Web App Attacks
Security risk is shifting to unprotected web applications
Web app attacks are now the
#1 source of data breaches
But less than 5% of data center security
budgets are spent on app security
Source: Verizon DBIR 2017
n= 1,935
UP 300% SINCE 2014
$23 to $1
Percentage of Breaches
10% 20% 30%
Source: Gartner
Web App Attacks
4. Vulnerabilities
+ Change
+ Shortage
Complexity of defending web applications and workloads
Risks are moving up the stack
1. Wide range of attacks at every
layer of the stack
2. Rapidly changing codebase can
introduces unknown vulnerabilities
3. Long tail of exposures inherited
from 3rd party development tools
4. Extreme shortage of cloud and
application security expertise
Web App
Attacks
OWASP
Top 10
Platform /
Library
Attacks
System /
Network
Attacks
Perimeter & end-point security tools
fail to protect cloud attack surface
Web Apps
Server-side Apps
App Frameworks
Dev Platforms
Server OS
Hypervisor
Databases
Networking
Cloud Management
5. Tame the Beast
Industry Challenge: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Known Good
Known Bad
Suspicious
Allow
Identify | Tune | Permit
Block
Drop | Reconfigure
Application Stack
Web Apps
Server-side Apps
App Frameworks
Dev Platforms
Databases
Server OS
Hypervisor
Hardware Classification Action
HUMAN EXPERT
REQUIRED
7. Customer X – Data Exfiltration
Company Profile
Textile Industry
$65M Annual Revenue
500+ Employees
4 Branch Offices (NA)
IT Dedicated Headcount – 14
Security Dedicated Headcount –
2
Hybrid Data Center (AWS &
CoLo)
8. Customer X – Data Exfiltration
Company Profile
Textile Industry
$65M Annual Revenue
500+ Employees
4 Branch Offices (NA)
IT Dedicated Headcount – 14
Security Dedicated Headcount –
2
Hybrid Data Center (AWS &
CoLo)
Attack Progression
Stalked company on LinkedIn and Google
Gained entry through PHP (KNOWN) flaws
Replaced PHP login to capture credentials
Leveraged credentials to access critical
system
Stole Financial, Design data & Roadmap
Undetected for 4 months – FBI Notification
Cost of Breech - $1.8M