Security

A recent FortiOS vulnerability is being actively exploited. Ansible can be used to implement a mitigation.

In the last article I looked at automating some of the tests available for Windows servers and desktops in the ACSC Essential Eight assessment guide. This article looks at how we can measure assessment activity - how often are we assessing systems, and are they passing the tests?

Recently the Australian Cyber Security Centre released an Essential Eight assessment guide. This article looks at automating some of the tests in the guide with Ansible.

Ansible provides a way to automate functional verification tests. This article looks at an improved approach to automating functional verification tests that I introduced in an earlier article.

Functional verification provides a way that we can attest to the configuration of a device or system, and verify compliance controls. This article looks at a functional verification approach using Ansible.

A quick look at the File Access Policy Analyzer, an open source tool simplifying application control implementation

RSA Conference 2022 again highlighted that many data breaches are due to unpatched systems. In this article I look at some of the technologies available to help organisations ensure that updates are applied across their hybrid cloud environments

Many organisations take the same approach to securing virtual machines, which I call 'Access & Agents'. While effective for virtual machines and other legacy infrastructure, this approach doesn't translate across to containers and Kubernetes, and this article looks at why.

Did you know that you can scan the internal OpenShift registry for security issues? Read on to find out how.

A quick guide on how to integrate a Kubernetes-native security platform with quay.io private repositories

Automation allows organisations to scale security workflows across hybrid cloud environments. In this article I take a closer look at automating application control, and how you can use Ansible roles to create reusable automation content.

What does it mean to be "Kubernetes-native"? And what does Kubernetes-native security look like?

Injecting integrity checks to application control processes is a winning security combination. Application control allows you to specify that only certain processes can execute on a system - but how do you know they are the right processes? How can you ensure that the code that you want to execute is the code that actually executes?

Application control seems to be one of those elusive security controls that organisations spend years chasing. How can we validate which processes are authorised to run on a system, and then enforce this?

Compliance evokes images of checking boxes. The real purpose of IT system compliance is risk migitation, and it probably just needs a better name