Tag: misconfiguration

Once upon a time I was a security consultant. I was assigned to review the firewall configuration for a sizeable Seattle startup of about 800 employees. They were in the business of hosting websites for thousands of small businesses across the world and therefore had a somewhat complex Internet connectivity setup. I sat down and…

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F5 Labs researchers combed through lists of organizations whose cloud resources have been exposed since 2017 due to intentional insecurity. The growth rate from 2017 to 2018 was an alarming 200%. So far in 2019, with an average of 2.5 breaches per month, we would expect to see a total of 30 breaches by the…

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It’s that special time of year again! In perhaps the most festive of all end-of-the-year traditions, the cyber security community tries to predict the next big scary incident which will make headlines in the new year. At the risk of sounding cynical, building strategies to respond to cyber security threats are a bit like New…

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