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Microsoft AI-Driven Security Tool Copilot for Security is Now GA
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Copilot for Security, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) security product designed to help security and IT teams with the capabilities to protect their digital assets.
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Google Cloud Launches Security Command Center Enterprise
Google Cloud has launched Security Command Center (SSC) Enterprise, a cloud risk management solution that offers proactive cloud security with enterprise security operations. The solution helps customers manage and mitigate risk across multi-cloud environments and is enhanced by Mandiant expertise.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Enhanced Protection for Large Language Models (LLMs) against Cyber Threats with Cloudflare for AI
Cloudflare recently announced a new capability called Firewall for AI in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) offering. The capability adds a new layer of protection that will identify abuse and attacks before they reach and tamper with Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Cloudflare Releases 2024 API Security and Management Report
Cloudflare recently released its 2024 API Security and Management Report, providing insights, predictions, and recommendations for safeguarding APIs in the new year. The report analyses the growing risk of shadow APIs, the most common API errors, and global API usage across different industries.
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Amazon Route 53 Resolver Introduces DNS over HTTPS Support for Enhanced Security and Compliance
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver will support using the Domain Name System (DNS) over HTTPS (DoH) protocol for both inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints.
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AWS Adds Automated Detection of Unused IAM Roles, Users, and Permissions
AWS recently added support for detecting unused access granted to IAM roles and users within their AWS IAM Access Analyzer tool. The new analyzer can identify unused roles, unused IAM user access keys and passwords, and unused permissions within a defined usage window. This analysis can be done across accounts within the organization and be controlled from a delegated administrator account.
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Intuitive Application Resource Management with myApplications in the AWS Management Console
AWS recently announced at its re:Invent conference the general availability of myApplications. myApplications in the AWS Management Console can help customers manage and monitor the cost, health, security posture, and performance of their applications on AWS more effectively.
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Canonical Takes a Chisel to Ubuntu with Ultra-Small Container Images
Canonical has officially released chiselled Ubuntu containers, offering production-ready, secure, and ultra-small container images with a focus on efficiency and security. These container images allow users to build images that only contain their application and its runtime dependencies, excluding unnecessary operating system-level packages, utilities, or libraries.
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Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2
To improve defense against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities, AWS has recently announced that new Amazon EC2 instance types will support only version 2 of the EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2). For transition support, customers will still be able to enable IMDSv1.
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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Cheaper Secure Connectivity to Azure Virtual Machines
Azure has recently announced the public preview of Bastion Developer SKU, the latest addition to the managed bastion service on Azure. The new option targets dev/test users seeking secure and simple VM connections without the need for additional features or scalability.
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AWS Restructures and Consolidates Its Well-Architected Framework
AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices. Other pillars received improved implementation guidance, including recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns.
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eBPF Kubernetes Security Tool Tetragon Improves Performance and Stability
Isovalent has announced the 1.0 release of Cilium Tetragon, their eBPF-based Kubernetes security observability and runtime enforcement tool. Policies and filters can be applied directly via eBPF to monitor process execution, privilege escalations, and file and network activity.
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GitHub Advanced Security Generally Available for Azure DevOps
Microsoft announced the general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, allowing users to integrate code, secret, and dependency scanning into their Azure Repos and benefit from the latest updates.
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Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed 38TB of Sensitive Data
Security researchers at cloud-security company Wiz discovered a data leak affecting Microsoft's AI GitHub repository, including a huge amount of private data and a disk backup of two employees' workstations with sensitive data.