Protecting Critical Infrastructure: A Tale of Two National Cybersecurity Strategies
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by Luke Luckett
1y ago
The term “special relationship,” coined by Winston Churchill, describes the close, longstanding alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom. It has been applied to cooperation during war, to trade and commerce, and even to intelligence sharing. That special relationship has clearly influenced the two nations’ recent policy papers on national cybersecurity. The U.K. document, National Cyber Strategy 2022, was published in December of that year, while the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy was released in March 2023.  These strategies are mandates for everyone, from individu ..read more
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Scoping Adventures: How to Get the Most Out of Your Synack Pentesting
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by Huw Jones
1y ago
Scoping Adventures is a series of blogs about some of the more interesting penetration tests that the Synack Customer Success teams have worked on over the last few months. Each blog outlines how we engage with the client to achieve the best results from a pentest. Pentesters love colors—red, blue, purple, black, white and grey to name but a few. While red, blue and purple are given to different security testing teams, black, white and grey are given to different types of penetration tests. Pentests are classed based on the level of information, knowledge and access given to the tester prior t ..read more
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Applying Strategic Thinking in Your Pentesting Program
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by Synack
1y ago
The Synack Platform & Five Pillars of Strategic Pentesting Why You Need to Think Strategically It’s no great revelation that tactics, techniques, and procedures utilized by nefarious hackers hacking activities are evolving on a daily basis. In 2022, 18,828 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) were published. At the same time, organization attack surfaces are expanding. The average large enterprise attack surface encompasses 8,500 IPs. It has never been more challenging to keep your attack surface secure, and your current pentesting program likely won’t help you get there. So how do ..read more
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Synack Hires Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Global Growth
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by Synack
1y ago
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 7, 2023 – Synack, the premier security testing company, announced the hire of Alex Luttschyn as Chief Revenue Officer. Alex will oversee the company’s sales and customer success functions, driving adoption of the Synack Platform to improve customers’ security testing programs worldwide. “Alex is the right leader to bring us to the next phase of growth, and we’re thrilled to welcome him to the team as our customers grapple with skyrocketing vulnerabilities,” said Synack CEO and co-founder Jay Kaplan. “Alex’s immense enterprise software experience and established sale ..read more
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Exploits Explained: Using APIs to Execute a Server-Side Request Forgery
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by SRT Community
1y ago
A note from Synack: API security scanners can be useful to quickly identify potential API vulnerabilities through automated means. Automated scans rely on known exploit paths to probe their target, for example by using HTTP response status codes. But the results of a scan don’t always tell the whole story of a potential API vulnerability.  In one scenario, a scanner may perform a normal function with “user A” credentials and attempt to simulate another user (“user B”) editing user A’s data. If the API does not return an error code (400), the scanner may flag the endpoint as being vulnerab ..read more
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Creating More Secure Cloud Environments with Microsoft and Synack
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by Greg Copeland
1y ago
The cloud moves fast, software development moves fast and attackers move fast too. Can your cloud governance keep up? Setting up security controls correctly at the start of a cloud migration project won’t work in the long-term with rapidly changing cloud environments. Cloud security benchmarks must be continuously followed to be effective, requiring frequent testing and monitoring for compliance. Microsoft’s cloud security benchmark, Azure Security Benchmark (ASB), provides best practices and recommendations to help improve security of cloud-hosted infrastructure and application workloads. The ..read more
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Fill the Gaps in Your Cybersecurity Program with On-Demand Pentesting
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by Synack
1y ago
Continuous Pentesting Doesn’t Always Cover All Your Bases Continuous vs. On-Demand Testing In a previous article we described the benefits of doing continuous pentesting in a strategic cybersecurity program.  Frequent product changes and updates, rapidly changing cloud infrastructures, and a seemingly never-ending train of newly-introduced vulnerabilities all point to the need for continuous vigilance and testing of your organization’s assets. Synack has you covered with Synack365, our program of continuous pentesting.  You specify the organization assets that you want tested and the ..read more
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Exploits Explained: Default Credentials Still a Problem Today
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by SRT Community
1y ago
Popeax is a member of the Synack Red Team. Often people think security research requires deep knowledge of systems and exploits, and sometimes it does, but in this case all it took was some curiosity and a Google search to find an alarmingly simple exploit using default credentials. On a recent host engagement, I discovered an unusual login page running on port 8080, a standard but less often used HTTP port. The login page did not resemble anything I had encountered in the thousands of login pages across hundreds of client engagements. Nothing new. Even for a seasoned member of the Synack Red ..read more
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Exploits Explained: Java JMX’s Exploitation Problems and Resolutions
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by SRT Community
1y ago
Nicolas Krassas is a member of the Synack Red Team and has earned distinctions such as SRT Envoy and Guardian of Trust. Of all the Synack targets, my favorite ones are always host assessments. There, one can find a multitude of services with different configurations, versions and usage. One that always caused me trouble was the Java RMI case, until I decided to spend time reviewing the process step by step. Throughout the years there were several targets where skilled Synack Red Team (SRT) members were able to successfully exploit vulnerabilities with Remote Code Execution, and this informatio ..read more
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How to Deploy Strategic Pentesting in Your Vulnerability Management Program
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by Synack
1y ago
Test to Find the Exploitable Vulnerabilities and Their Root Causes Vulnerability Management in Your Cybersecurity Program Today’s complex software systems often include code that leaves them vulnerable to attack by hackers who are always looking for a way to break in. And even with a system with no inherent vulnerabilities, a misconfiguration or careless deployment of credentials handling can afford hackers an opportunity for infiltration. A record 26,448 software security flaws were reported in 2022, with the number of critical vulnerabilities up 59% on 2021. So a good cybersecurity program s ..read more
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