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Cloud Providers Publish Ransomware Mitigation Strategies
In the last few weeks AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have posted articles and documentation with suggestions on ransomware mitigation techniques on the cloud, highlighting the main protections and recovery preparation actions.
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Google Releases Its Certificate Authority Service into General Availability
The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation and managing public key infrastructure (PKI). And last month, Google announced the general availability (GA) of this service.
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AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys
AWS has recently announced the availability of KMS multi-region keys, a new feature for client-side applications that makes encrypted data portable across regions.
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Slack Details Its New Role Management Architecture
Slack recently posted a detailed description of the software architecture of its new role management system. Slack needed to build a system that was more flexible than the one it previously had. It created a custom containerized Go-based permission service that integrates with its existing systems over gRPC. As a result, its customers' admins now have granular control over what their users can do.
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OpenJDK Discusses Post-SecurityManager Practices
Following the introduction of JEP-411 to deprecate Java’s SecurityManager, several projects have spoken up to discuss the impact and expected outcome of this change and how it is implemented in early-release builds of Java 17 (a Long-Term Support release). In particular, Oracle has published a technical paper, "Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager."
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OpenJDK Proposes SecurityManager Deprecation
The OpenJDK project has proposed JEP-411 as a means of deprecating the SecurityManager. If accepted, this would be the first step in a multi-year process in which the OpenJDK Quality Outreach Campaign can guide affected projects towards alternatives before anything is removed.
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HashiCorp Announces the General Availability of HCP Vault on AWS
Recently, HashiCorp announced the general availability of their fully-managed Vault service for AWS environments on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a SaaS service with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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GitLab Protocol Fuzzer CE Now Open-Source
GitLab has open-sourced the core protocol fuzz testing engine it has been using since its 13.4 release. Fuzz testing aims to more effectively find security issues and flaws in business logic by passing randomly generated inputs to an app. InfoQ has spoken with GitLab principal product manager Sam Kerr to learn more.
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Linux Foundation Sigstore Aims to Be the Let's Encrypt of Code Signing
Backed by the Linux Foundation, Sigstore aims to provide a non-profit service to foster the adoption of cryptographic signing by open source projects to make the software supply chain more secure.
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Google Extends Tsunami Security Scanner's Capabilities
Open-sourced last year, Google's Tsunami security scanner has received a significant update, extending its detection capabilities and adding support for Web application fingerprinting, among other things.
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The Attacker Defender Divide
Kenna Security and Cyentia analyzed over 18,000 CVEs to determine the paths between when a vulnerability is known, exploited, patchable, and patched. The result demonstrates that attackers have the upper hand for most issues.
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HashiCorp Announces Public Beta of HCP Vault
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the public beta of HashiCorp Vault on its Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a managed cloud service to provide them with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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A Dozen Cisco Vulnerabilities at Once
A security researcher has identified 12 vulnerabilities that exploit Cisco Security Manager. The flaws include deserialization, remote code execution, and arbitrary file access.
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AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves, Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing
AWS has recently made available Nitro Enclaves, isolated EC2 environments to process confidential data. Based on a lightweight Linux OS, a Nitro Enclave is a hardened, attested and highly constrained virtual machine.
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Snyk Releases Enhanced Vulnerability Prioritization Features
Snyk has announced the release of a number of new features to simplify prioritizing security vulnerabilities. This includes a new, proprietary algorithm to assess and provide a score for each identified issue. This approach takes into account the maturity of the exploit and can analyze if the affected code is reachable through application execution.