A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is when a bad actor interrupts an established network conversation or data transfer. The attacker sits in the middle of the transfer path and then pretends or act as a legitimate participant in the conversation. In practice, the attackers position themselves between incoming requests and outgoing responses. As a user, you…
Penetration testing is the process of practically assessing security vulnerabilities in applications to establish if attackers can exploit them and compromise the systems. Generally, this helps researchers, developers, and security professionals to identify and address the vulnerabilities that would allow bad actors to attack or compromise the application or other IT resources. In practice, penetration…
As digital technologies advance and become more widespread, fraud is evolving, getting more sophisticated, and hard to detect. Over the past few years, the number of internal and external fraud cases targeting private, public, government, and other organizations has been on an upward trend. While the banking and healthcare sectors account for the most online…
Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools are software products that enable IT teams to define, standardize and automate the organization’s incident response activities. Most organizations use these tools to automate security operations and processes, respond to incidents, and manage vulnerabilities and threats. Generally, the SOAR solutions enable teams to collect valuable security data, identify,…
As networking continue to evolve and increase in size, the configurations are becoming more complex and challenging to manage using conventional manual methods. Besides the traditional local and wide area networks, we now have the cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking, and other technologies that widen the coverage and the number of connected…
Privilege escalation attacks occur when bad actors exploit misconfigurations, bugs, weak passwords, and other vulnerabilities that allow them to access protected assets. A typical exploit may start with the attacker first gaining access to a low-level privilege account. Once logged in, attackers will study the system to identify other vulnerabilities they can exploit further. They…
Microservices architecture provides flexibility, scalability, and the ability to modify, add, or remove software components without affecting other parts of the application. In addition to shorter software development cycles, smaller teams, and flexible programming language options, it allows you to scale or troubleshoot certain functions or services without interfering with the other components. Generally, the…
☁️ Cloud infrastructure has benefits such as flexibility, scalability, high performance, and affordability. Once you subscribe to a service, such as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you do not have to worry about the high capital and maintenance costs of an equivalent in-house data center and associated infrastructure. However, traditional on-premise security practices do not provide…
Data management refers to the combination of concepts, procedures, processes, and practices as well as the associated systems that give an organization the ability to optimize its data resources. Ideally, the ability to accurately and consistently extract useful information is vital in providing insights and improving operations, productivity as well as revenues. As such, businesses…
DNS cache poisoning is the injection of fake or forged entries into the DNS cache so as to divert users to malicious websites. The DNS cache poisoning results from vulnerabilities that allow the criminals to submit forged DNS responses, which the domain name server (DNS) then stores in their caches. Usually, the compromised entry redirects…
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