4 min
Penetration Testing
Penetration Test vs. Red Team Assessment: The Age Old Debate of Pirates vs. Ninjas Continues
In a fight between pirates and ninjas, who would win? I know what you are
thinking. “What in the world does this have to do with security?” Read on to
find out but first, make a choice: Pirates or Ninjas?
Before making that choice, we must know what the strengths and weaknesses are
for each:
Pirates
Strengths
Weaknesses
StrongLoudBrute-Force AttackDrunk (Some say this could be a strength too)Great
at PlunderingCan be CarelessLong-Range CombatNinjas
Strengths
Weaknesses
FastNo ArmorStealthySmal
5 min
Vulnerability Disclosure
R7-2016-06: Remote Code Execution via Swagger Parameter Injection (CVE-2016-5641)
This disclosure will address a class of vulnerabilities in a Swagger Code
Generator in which injectable
parameters in a Swagger JSON or YAML file facilitate remote code execution. This
vulnerability applies to NodeJS , PHP, Ruby
, and Java and
probably other languages as well. Other code generation tools
may also be vulnerable to paramete
2 min
Nexpose
Vulnerability Regression Monitoring With Nexpose
Recently I've been diving into some advanced
and targeted
analysis features. Today I'd
like to keep things simple while still addressing a significant use case -
Vulnerability Regression. Often times the immediate response to high visibility
vulnerabilities does not involve setting up future monitoring, leaving the door
open for the same vulnerabilities to show back up time and again.
4 min
IT Ops
Migrating a web app to Angular
At some point many applications get to a state in which a large refactoring or
in some cases a complete rewrite needs to happen. The decision to do so can be
driven by many factors. For example, the code base is growing rapidly and the
current architecture cannot support the growth, components are becoming too
tightly coupled and need to be split, new and better technology becomes
available which offers significant improvements or due to other factors the
current code base is just not maintain
4 min
InsightIDR
Seven Ways InsightIDR Helps Maintain PCI Compliance
If your company processes credit card transactions, you must be compliant with
the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS
.
Any entity that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data must abide by
these requirements, which provide best practices for securing your cardholder
data environment (CDE) .
Rapid7 InsightVM, InsightAppSec, and Metasploi
3 min
IT Ops
Webinar Recap: Tableau Server Log Analytics
Our webinar
was
broadcasted & recorded on June 16th 2016. During this broadcast Tableau Zen
Master Mike Roberts of Pluralsight discussed how to develop a simple technology
stack for next-gen management of Tableau using Logentries
6 min
Komand
Defender Spotlight: Ryan Huber of Slack
Welcome to Defender Spotlight! In this weekly blog series, we interview
cybersecurity defenders of all varieties about their experience working in
security operations. We’ll inquire about their favorite tools, and ask advice on
security topics, trends, and other know-how.
Today, we're talking with Ryan Huber. Currently at Slack, Ryan has previously
held positions at companies such as Orbitz and Risk I/O, doing security,
engineering, or a combination of both. He enjoys computers, and can often b
11 min
IT Ops
Monitoring SNS Activity Using a Lambda Function and Logentries
Amazon Web Services Lambda functions are very cool. A Lambda function is a
feature in Amazon Web Services that allows you to put a discrete piece of
computing logic up in The Cloud and then access that logic to meet a particular
need. For example, you can create a Lambda function that takes a list of stock
symbols and does some analysis on the list using other cloud based services in
order to suggest the best stock to buy.
Logentries has put the power of Lambda functions
3 min
IT Ops
Checking Active Directory (AD) Security and Integrity via Log Monitoring
Because AD literally holds the keys to the kingdom for domain-based networks and
runtime environments, it’s usually a good idea to keep a close eye on those
keys, how they’re being used and what kinds of attacks might be directed at
them. Monitoring AD related event logs provides one great tool in exercising due
security and integrity diligence. Alerting on specific high-impact events
provides yet another.
For over two decades now, Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) has provided a
powerful set
1 min
Automation and Orchestration
What are Networking Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems?
NID(P)S, or Networking Intrusion (Prevention)/Detection Systems
are used by a security team for general network security
monitoring. They
work by passively monitoring (or actively gating, in the NIPS case) network
traffic and applying rules or signatures to trigger alerts.
Advantages
* Easy to deploy: Unlike endpoint devices, they can be placed
11 min
Automation and Orchestration
GDB for Fun (and Profit!)
Who Should Read This?
Have you ever wondered why your code doesn’t work? Do you ever find yourself
puzzled by the way someone else’s program works? Are you tired of spending night
after tearful night poring over the same lines of code again and again,
struggling to maintain your sanity as it slips away? If this sounds like you or
someone you know, please seek help: use a debugger.
What Is a Debugger?
For those of you that have never used a debugger:
1. I’m so sorry
2. Please read on
A debug
3 min
IT Ops
Exploiting Zookeeper for managing processes in a production environment with Lockex
Lock and execute!
As an engineer here at Logentries
I need to maintain a complex system that has requirements for being available to
our customers. We always build systems with the ability to be resistant to
failure.
In our environment, we have processes and dae
10 min
Metasploit
A Short Approach: The Cisco ASA 5505 as a Stepping Stone Into Embedded Reverse Engineering
Back in February, Exodus Intelligence released their blog entry titled "Execute
My Packet", which detailed their discovery and exploitation of CVE-2016-1287.
Since then, I've fielded numerous requests for modules and witnessed much
discussion generated from it. From this discussion, I've gathered that many
researchers seem to consider the Cisco ASA as an unruly beast, difficult to
approach, even harder to tame. I feel that this is far from the truth, and this
article is a response to such not
4 min
Komand
How to Create a Culture of Security Ownership Across Your Organization
Company culture is a phrase that means different things to many people. From the
company mission statement to the performance of a team, culture is often an
amalgamation of leadership values and individual employee contributions.
Security, and its many variants (cybersecurity, infosec, et. al), isn’t always a
word associated with “culture”. But in today’s digital landscape, it absolutely
should be.
Building a successful company culture often comes down to three elements:
people, processes, and
3 min
Komand
SOC Series: How to Structure and Build a Security Operations Center
Building an effective security operations center (SOC)
requires
organizing internal resources in a way that improves communication and increases
efficiencies. Adding to a former post,When to Set Up a Security Operations
Center
, we're now offering a framework for organizing the three key functions of a
SOC: people, proce