I recently had a discussion about secrets management at a CISO forum that turned into a much broader conversation about DevOps security. We spend a lot of time thinking about whether a security control can detect something, but considerably less time thinking about when in the engineering process that detection occurs. In a GitOps or DevOps workflow, timing can be at least as important as the detection itself. I use secrets management throughout this article because it provid

For a long time, putting a web application inside the corporate network was considered an obvious security decision. If an application was intended only for employees, the reasoning was straightforward. Do not expose it to the Internet. Put it on the internal network and require employees to connect through the corporate VPN. There are certainly applications and environments where that still makes sense; for example, applications that are not web- or mobile-based. But I am in

Security succeeds when it changes the environment, not the developer. For years, vulnerability management has followed a familiar pattern. A security scanner identifies an issue, a security engineer reviews the finding, a ticket is created, and eventually that ticket finds its way into a developer's backlog. If the issue isn't addressed quickly enough, we often conclude that the problem is prioritization, security culture, or a lack of developer awareness. I don't think that'

One of the most common cybersecurity questions I receive has nothing to do with corporate networks, cloud security, or penetration testing. Instead, it usually sounds something like this: "What should I do to protect my family online?" Friends, family members, and neighbors often assume the answer involves expensive software, complicated network equipment, or a deep understanding of cybersecurity. The reality is much simpler. Most successful cyberattacks do not succeed becaus

In recent years, several high-profile intrusions have reportedly begun with a remarkably simple attack path: convincing a help desk employee to reset account credentials. What appears at first glance to be a failure of identity verification is often a much more interesting problem involving trust, uncertainty, and decision-making. The resulting breaches disrupted operations across organizations and became some of the most widely discussed examples of social engineering. The i

Phone phreaking, command injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and prompt injection are generally treated as distinct classes of security vulnerabilities. The technologies involved span more than fifty years of computing history and operate in completely different environments. At first glance, they appear unrelated. A closer examination reveals a common architectural characteristic. In each case, untrusted users are able to communicate with a system's control plane

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