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• CSI: Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Network and Environment Pillar [pdf]

• CSI: Use Secure Cloud Identity and Access Management Practices [pdf]

• CSI: Account for Complexities Introduced by Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Environments [pdf]

• CSI: Manage Cloud Logs for Effective Threat Hunting [pdf]

• CSI: Uphold the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model [pdf]

• CSI: Secure Data in the Cloud [pdf]

• CSI: Implement Network Segmentation and Encryption in Cloud Environments [pdf]

• CSI: NSA’s Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies [pdf]

• CSI: Mitigate Risks from Managed Service Providers in Cloud Environments [pdf]

• CSI: Use Secure Cloud Key Management Practices [pdf]

• CSI: Enforce Secure Automated Deployment Practices through Infrastructure as Code [pdf]

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For anyone interested in compliance and hardening, here's some links to the DOD/US GOV standards for information systems. This information is available to the public.

Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)

This is a document that has recommended settings, methods, etc to make a product the most secure it can reasonably be. STIGs break things or turn off features people might be accustomed to. You have to do testing and figure out how to either make something work with STIG settings applied, or do exceptions. These are similar to Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks.

STIG Viewer

The STIG viewer is a Java app that basically makes the list into a checklist where you can track applying settings.

SCAP

Going farther with automation, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) can be used to conduct automated checked against systems to determine compliance with a setting. Install the SCAP tool, load the automated checks into it, and then take the results from SCAP tool and import them into the STIG viewer. It will knock out anything that could be checked automatically. The remaining checks would be things that are manually checked.

Compare

Here's a good article that compares STIGs and CIS benchmarks: https://nira.com/stig-vs-cis/#:~:text=The%20Center%20for%20Internet%20Security%20offers%20a%20tool%20similar%20to,robust%20than%20the%20STIG%20tool.

Download STIGs for products: https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/downloads/

STIG Viewer: https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/srg-stig-tools/

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) content: https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/scap/

https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/supplemental-automation-content/

For anyone who's interested in pen. testing, there's a business from MN that does a podcast where the host and business owner, Brian, talks about doing tests, tells stories, and is generally goofy.

Brian made a podcast intro song, kinda funny. He talks about testing successes, tips for security, personal things, and running the business. They do live streaming where they sometimes get into the weeds and teach some techniques.

(I am not affiliated with 7 Minute Security, just enjoy the podcast/learning)

One of the vulnerabilities (identified as CVE-2024-27198) has a near-maximum severity CVSS rating of 9.8 out of 10 and is an authentication bypass issue in TeamCity's Web component. Researchers from Rapid7 who discovered the vulnerability and reported it to JetBrains have described it as enabling a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code to take complete control of affected instances.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/9382315

I have had no problem using VOIP over #protonVPN until recently. Connections happen but there is no audio. Anyone notice this?

I wondered if maybe they decided to make VOIP a non-free feature, but their premium plans do not list VOIP as an extra feature.

For anyone who's interested in IDS, this is a product that's open source, with support.

It can be run as a single standalone, but it's meant to be run tiered, where you can deploy sensors doing packet capture, analysis, which gets sent to a central manager, and then can be retained in search nodes.

It's incredibly powerful, just have to be willing to learn how to tune it.

https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.4/ https://blog.securityonion.net/

I am not affiliated with the product, just a user of it. I like it.

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How is this legal? This has to be the most insecure login method I’ve ever seen. They removed the password from my account without consent and have no way to go back to requiring a password. Literally all an attacker has to do it gain control of either my phone/email and brute force a 4 digit pin. I’m going to have to change banks because of this.

Oh also I posted this on the bad version of Lemmy and the mod tried to claim that this method of auth is actually more secure than a password, posted a Wikipedia article about passkeys, and then locked the post… In no reality is it at all possible that this is more secure than a password.

So stay away from One Finance if you value your money

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