The Right Way to do Attack Surface Mapping
The key to mapping out your attack surface accurately is to scan all of your organization's assets, develop an asset inventory list and find shadow IT. ...
Passive DNS Is the Wrong Way To Do Attack Surface Mapping
When identifying a corporate attack surface, passive DNS can be useful but it won’t be comprehensive by itself, so it should be part of a more holistic program....
Primary Group ID Attack in Active Directory: How to Defend Against Related Threats
The Primary Group ID in Active Directory, created to help manage access to sensitive resources, has become a critical vulnerability that attackers can exploit to escalate privileges without leaving a trace.The Primary Group ID in Active Directory was originally developed to support the UNIX POSIX mo...
How to Stop the Kerberos Pre-Authentication Attack in Active Directory
Here’s a look at how to safeguard your Active Directory from the known roasting attack on Kerberos Pre-Authentication.As part of the Kerberos authentication process in Active Directory, there is an initial request to authenticate without a password. This is an artifact left over from Kerberos versio...
Crawling Is the Wrong Way To Do Attack Surface Mapping
When analyzing methods to identify assets, crawling should be one tool in the toolbox, but not the only one. If you use crawling exclusively, you’ll likely miss a lot of assets....
Infrastructure as Code Security Requires Programmatic Controls
Empower develops with a programmatic approach to security. Here's what you need to know. The concept of shifting security as far left into development as possible is not new, and it is fairly easy to see the benefits: when you catch issues earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) you ...
Cash App Scams: Giveaway Offers Ensnare Instagram Users, While YouTube Videos Promise Easy Money
Cash App scammers are targeting users on Instagram and YouTube. Here’s what you need to know about their tactics — and how to avoid being conned.In part one of our two-part series on Cash App scammers, I explored how promotional tactics used by the popular person-to-person (P2P) payment service...
How to Choose the Right Vulnerability Management Solution
As vulnerability management evolves, organizations are seeing increased need for prioritization, benchmarking and flexible reporting. Here are five things to keep in mind when choosing a vulnerability management solution.Vulnerability management is once again rising to the top of the security agenda...
Tenable Lumin: Translating Vulnerability Management Into the Language of Business
With Tenable Lumin, we’re giving customers a bridge between the language of vulnerability management and the language of business. In our work here at Tenable, we often hear from our CISO customers about the dual challenges they face: How to help business executives and the board unde...
How To: Run Your First Vulnerability Scan with Nessus
Get your Nessus vulnerability assessment tool up and running with these five easy steps.With Nessus, you can gain full visibility into your network by conducting a vulnerability assessment. Read on as we guide you through the five steps to run your first Nessus scan. (If you have not yet installed N...
Vulnerability Management Fundamentals: What You Need to Know
In part one of our five-part series on vulnerability management fundamentals, we explore the four stages of the Cyber Exposure lifecycle. ...
Security Teams: What You Need to Know About Vulnerability Response
Tenable’s Predictive Prioritization leverages data science and machine learning to make it easier for cybersecurity teams to find, patch and remediate vulnerabilities. Week after week, critical vulnerabilities in enterprise software are found and published, sending security teams off ...