Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Open-source software is becoming a top choice for professionals. From completing internal tasks to supporting public-facing servers, you can see open-source applications everywhere. But before you start using such software for critical infrastructure, you must understand its pros and cons. Once you know both sides of the open-source software, it would be easy to conclude whether to use it or not.

Staying ahead of evolving threats is crucial for organizations in all industries. Threat intelligence platforms ( TIPs) play a pivotal role in this endeavor, providing a centralized hub for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating threat intelligence. Introducing the ThreatQ Platform, purpose-built for threat detection and response. To further enhance its capabilities, organizations can leverage automation, streamlining processes and fortifying their cybersecurity posture.

The phenomenal growth in the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) has prompted enterprises of all sizes to move their critical data to SaaS-based applications. And as attackers tend to follow data to induce a breach, their new area of focus is enterprise SaaS. The recent Midnight Blizzard attack by nation-state actors clearly reinforces the fact that this trend has only just begun.

Teleport is an open source company. We develop in the open, including full disclosure of security issues in our changelogs and pull requests. We share our penetration tests and key compliance reports. Despite this, our communication to open source users and integration with automated security tooling needed improvement. We needed a standardized way to refer to our vulnerabilities so that when two people (or systems) talk about a vulnerability, they know they’re talking about the same thing.

Organizations separate access to specific data and administrative capabilities into different types of privileged accounts in order to securely run their operations. Some types of privileged accounts include domain administrator (admin) accounts, local admin accounts, privileged user accounts and emergency accounts. If not properly managed or secured, cybercriminals can gain unauthorized access to these privileged accounts and steal an organization’s sensitive data.

Malware attacks continue to be the order of the day for businesses. The adaptability of threats and the fact that new attack models spread almost daily mean they are still very much a concern among cybersecurity professionals. The rise of malicious threat actors seems unstoppable. According to Gartner, by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software, which represents a staggering 300% growth since 2021.