Compliance to Implementation: Exploring DORA and NIS 2 Frameworks

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Compliance to Implementation: Exploring DORA and NIS 2 Frameworks

The importance of cybersecurity and operational resilience in the financial sector has never been more pronounced. The European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of addressing these critical issues, enacting comprehensive legislations to safeguard the digital infrastructure and ensure the continuity of financial services. Two pivotal pieces of legislation in this domain are the …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Elevating AWS Kubernetes Security and Compliance

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) streamlines the process of deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Web Services (AWS), sparing users the complexities of setting up and maintaining their own Kubernetes control plane. Kubernetes itself is an open-source platform designed to automate the management, scaling, and deployment of applications within containers.

CONTAINER SECURITY

CVE-2024-3094: Newly Discovered Backdoor in XZ tools

The xz-utils is a popular compression tool used widely across Linux systems, indicating its critical role in the software ecosystem. The xz-utils backdoor, discovered on March 29, 2024, exposes systems to potential backdoor access and remote code execution. It specifically targets versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of xz-utils on systems using glibc, systemd, and patched OpenSSH. …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Aqua: Leading the Charge in Container Security Innovation

Aqua named a leader and an outperformer in GigaOm Container Security Radar Containerization has revolutionized application development and deployment, providing enterprises with enhanced speed, agility, and consistency across different computing environments. However, this transformation introduces complexities, particularly regarding security. With the increasing adoption of containerized applications, there’s a growing demand for specialized security solutions tailored …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Elevating Security: Protecting Containerized Workloads on Mainframes

Mainframes and containers represent two distinct yet impactful elements in today’s modern computing architecture. Mainframes are powerful, centralized computing systems known for their reliability, scalability, and ability to handle massive workloads. While containers, on the other hand, have emerged as a lightweight and flexible solution for deploying, scaling, and managing cloud native applications across various …

CONTAINER SECURITY

AI-Guided Remediation: Unify Teams and Speed Vulnerability Resolution

The urgent need for rapid remediation The window of vulnerability after the discovery of a security issue has never been more critical than it is with cloud native applications. Why is that? Cloud apps move fast. With modern CI/CD processes, code can be pushed to production multiple times per day. This means that security gaps …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Establishing a Resilient DevSecOps Action Plan

DevSecOps is an easy term to toss around. But what does it mean, exactly? What actually goes into an effective DevSecOps strategy? And how do cloud and DevOps impact DevSecOps processes? To find out, I participated in a conversation with Merritt Baer, principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, to discuss the best ways …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Intro to Fileless Malware in Containers

A fileless attack is a technique that takes incremental steps toward gaining control of your environment while remaining undetected. In a fileless attack, the malware is directly loaded into memory and executed, evading common defenses and static scanning.

CONTAINER SECURITY

A Security Review of Docker Official Images: Which Do You Trust?

A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Shifting Left: Infrastructure as Code security with Trivy

One of the great security benefits of the move to cloud native development is the increased use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to describe computing environments. Once things are described as code, we can shift left and secure our environments before they’re deployed. As a major new feature, the latest version of Trivy, Aqua’s open …

CONTAINER SECURITY

How Do Containers Contain? Container Isolation Techniques

If you work with containers long enough, you already know that containers should not be considered as security boundaries. In this blog, we’ll explore how different container isolation techniques intend to provide a solution to this problem, and whether their strengths and weaknesses make them a practical choice.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Container Isolation: Is a Container a Security Boundary?

One of the fundamental questions in container security, since the early days of Docker, is whether a container constitutes a security boundary. In this first part of a two-blog discussion of containers and isolation, we take a look at the security boundary question, along with key examples. Part II will continue with the nuances of …

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