Identity is the New Perimeter: Why Your IdP Isn’t Enough
In a cloud-first world, identity is one of the most critical layers of security. While organizations are making progress using IdPs, major identity protection gaps remain....
Tackling Shadow AI in Cloud Workloads
As enterprise adoption of cloud AI systems balloons, protecting them has become a priority for cybersecurity teams. Shadow AI – the rampant, unsanctioned use of AI apps and services – has emerged as a particularly critical threat. Here we outline two best practices that can help you combat shadow AI...
OCI, Oh My: Remote Code Execution on Oracle Cloud Shell and Code Editor Integrated Services
Tenable Research discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (now remediated) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Code Editor. We demonstrated how an attacker could silently 1-click hijack a victim’s Cloud Shell environment and potentially pivot across OCI services. The vulnerability als...
Stronger Cloud Security in Five: Accelerate Response in the Cloud
In this sixth installment of Tenable’s “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we offer three recommendations that you can quickly roll out to help you expedite, prioritize and fine-tune how you detect and respond to cloud security issues....
Secrets in the Open: Cloud Data Exposures That Put Your Business at Risk
Sensitive data and secrets are leaking. How cloud security leaders can shut them down....
Stronger Cloud Security in Five: 3 Quick Ways to Improve Kubernetes Security in GCP
In this fifth installment of Tenable’s “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we offer three best practices for quickly hardening your Kubernetes environment’s security in GCP: remove wide inbound access to cluster APIs; remove root permissions from containers; and remove privileged permissi...
Stronger Cloud Security in Five: How DSPM Helps You Discover, Classify and Secure All Your Data Assets
In this fourth installment of Tenable’s “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we turn our attention to securing cloud data, a complex endeavor as data grows exponentially and threats become more sophisticated. Check out five DSPM best practices to sharpen your cloud data security and compli...
The Future of Cloud Access Management: How Tenable Cloud Security Redefines Just-in-Time Access
Traditional approaches to cloud access rely on static, permanent permissions that are often overprivileged. Learn how just-in-time access completely changes the game....
Stronger Cloud Security in Five: How To Protect Your Cloud Workloads
In the first installment of Tenable’s “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we covered cloud security posture management (CSPM), which focuses on protecting your multi-cloud infrastructure by detecting misconfigurations. Today, we turn to securing cloud workloads, which are the applications...
ConfusedComposer: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Composer
Tenable Research discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ConfusedComposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an identity with permission (composer.environments.update) to edit a Cloud Composer environment to escalate pri...
Stronger Cloud Security in Five: The Importance of Cloud Configuration Security
Mismanaging configurations in your multi-cloud environment can put you at an elevated risk for cyber attacks. In the first installment of our “Stronger Cloud Security in Five” blog series, we outline five best practices for boosting your cloud configuration management....
How To Implement Just-In-Time Access: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
With the just-In-time (JIT) access control method, privileges are granted temporarily on an as-needed basis. This reduces static entitlements, lowering the risk of compromised accounts and preventing privilege creep. In this blog, we’ll share how we implemented JIT access internally at Tenable using...
