Practical Advice for Complying with Federal Cybersecurity Directives

Kubernetes security is becoming more challenging as the number of clusters running cloud-native applications continues to multiply rapidly. Challenges range from allowing in only legitimate traffic and enabling least-privileged communications between services to defend against attacks moving laterally between clusters, to validating how a workload is operating within the expected guardrails.

We know. It’s an impossible question to answer. There’s no such thing as a “worst web application security issue,” because every app and every organization has its own unique set of issues. But if you’re a development organization with limited resources, how do you know where to start? Which issues appear over and over in data breaches, exploits, and top N lists such as the OWASP Top 10? We asked some experts—and Twitter—to give us their opinions.

Only with full visibility into employee or third-party activity across a company network can even the earliest indicators of an insider threat be detected. By monitoring both user and file activity, security and compliance professionals can be alerted to risky, out-of-policy activities and any unexplained changes in user behavior in real-time; successfully stopping and investigating any activity before it becomes a full-blown breach. Research from The Ponemon Institute shows that Financial Services organizations face the highest penalty costs of any other industry ($12.05 million annually) when they experience an insider-led incident, though they are closely followed by the Energy & Utilities and Retail sector. This cost alone is a very concrete reason to address what otherwise might seem to be an invisible problem.

With cyberattacks becoming easier and cheaper to launch, it’s no surprise that 80.5% of technology leaders consider cyber attacks at their organization likely. Pulse and A10 Networks surveyed 200 technology leaders to find out how their companies are thinking about SSL inspection and decryption solutions as part of a Zero Trust strategy.