In the context of vulnerability management, it’s common to be faced with a long list of findings after each scan, often too many to tackle all at once. But how do you decide where to focus your efforts and resources? Which vulnerabilities are truly critical, the ones that could actually compromise your organization’s security? The…
Read MoreWhile traditional vulnerability scanning techniques provide valuable insights from the outside, authenticated scans offer a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of system security by providing more vulnerability details on the scanned system from an internal perspective. By leveraging valid system credentials, Greenbone’s authenticated scans provide critical insights about system configurations, software versions, and potential internal weaknesses…
Read MoreNowadays attacks evolve over time and threat actors are following different ways to reach the same objectives. This could represent a problem on the defensive side. How can you always be up-to-date and ready to detect, but then when a vulnerability is exploited be able to act in several ways depending on the threat actor?…
Read MoreIn today’s digital landscape where cyber threats are constantly evolving, recurring vulnerability scanning is not only a best practice, but a strategic imperative with the aim of minimizing exposure to potential risks. Regular vulnerability scanning helps identify weaknesses in systems, applications and infrastructures, allowing them to be addressed in a timely and strategic way before…
Read MoreHave you already read this blog post Adding soar features to the soc part 1 vulnerability management? If not, you have to! It explains the SOAR features leveraged by the Würth Phoenix SOC and how we implement our Vulnerability Management process. In this article, I’ll take a step back, focusing on what happens before the…
Read MoreDuring a Vulnerability Remediation process, understanding which vulnerabilities pose a real and significant risk for an organization is not so obvious, and most of the time it involves several different aspects. It takes into consideration several factors related to available resources and time, company assets, severity, compatibility with fix methodologies, and others. There is no…
Read More0-day vulnerabilities are predicted to grow more and more, posing new threats for the cybersecurity. It’s hard to predict them and when their exploit occurs, since developers and vendors are unaware of the flaw until they are actually exploited. Hence, there is no ready patch available for a 0-day vulnerability. MOVEit Transfer 0-day On May…
Read MoreIn 2022, more than half of Italian companies suffered at least one email attack despite the presence of spam filters, blacklisted domains and other available solutions for blocking threats. This shows how crucial it is for companies to both test their employees’ awareness about security and invest in training. A phishing campaign includes scam emails…
Read MoreIn December 2021 Microsoft revealed two vulnerabilities concerning an Active Directory Domain Services privilege elevation, classified as CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287. By combining the two exploits in the so-called noPac attack, a malicious actor could perform a privilege escalation by impersonating the Domain Administrator after starting out as a standard user. This would lead to a…
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