Nesting Threats Unmasked: Cyngular’s New Era of Proactive Cybersecurity in the Cloud

...And 12 Cybersecurity Posts from around LinkedIn

In this Issue

Foreword | 12 Posts on Cyber |?Featured Leader | From Cyngular's Founder | Afterword

Foreword

We're excited to share 12 more posts about cybersecurity from across LinkedIn. Useful content this week includes information on 'sniffing attacks', a quick guide on the best way to secure passwords, and the cybercrimes you need to know about in 2024.

We highlight a Featured Leader again this week.

Finally, a piece from Cyngular Security highlighting their innovative approach to discovering nesting threats.

We're happy to send out our thirty-third issue, written to deliver content of value that is easily digestible.

We welcome all feedback, submissions, and input from our readers. If you have questions, submissions, or concerns, contact Rebecca Fera .

12 Posts on Cyber

Useful LinkedIn Posts This Week in Cybersecurity

A breakdown of how SSL works, its benefits, and critical vulnerabilities were detailed by Aryaa Mathur

Harun Seker, CISSP outlined 12 key cybersecurity role profiles in a popular post

A free quick start guide for Nmap and Shodan, overviewed by Mike Holcomb

Aditi Patil explored Android penetration testing and useful steps to get started

Chirag Goswami detailed a quick guide on best practices for securing passwords against cybercriminals

Michael Tchuindjang outlined an interesting guide on 100 different cybersecurity keywords and their definitions

Angelica Spratley underscored key points on the security challenges of AI, and the importance of implementing robust cybersecurity measures

Chris H. overviewed a recent guidance release entitled, "Product Security Bad Practices" by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Types of cybercrimes to know in 2024, detailed by Boikokobetso Makhetloane

The importance of cybersecurity, types of cyber crimes, and cyber safety tips, broken down in a useful post by Ibrahim A. Al-Ghosini

A type of cyberattack called a sniffing attack, was defined by Achraf Zaryouh , outlining how they happen as well as best practices to protect against them

Felipe Carvalho outlined a helpful firewall rules guide, consisting of 100 different commands

Featured Leader

Paul Harris

Paul Harris is a seasoned cybersecurity and technology resilience executive with over 12 years in digital security transformation and risk management within financial services and the UK Defense sector. As Chief of Staff to Barclays Group CISO, he led cybersecurity strategy, operational resilience, and digital transformation, overseeing a ￡350m budget and achieving over ￡70m in financial savings. Paul’s experience spans high-stakes roles, including directing crisis responses and authoring Barclays’ cyber-SaaS strategy.

As a regulatory and frameworks expert, he’s adept in international standards like GDPR, PCI-DSS, and NIST. Paul’s leadership experience, including as a former Senior Leadership Instructor at the RAF College, reflects his commitment to inspiring and motivating teams.

In a recent post made by Paul on LinkedIn, he talks about how all versions of Windows clients, from Windows 7 to 11, contain a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to capture NTLM authentication hashes from users of affected systems. Read the full post and article here.

Paul is another featured leader we are happy to share with you this week.

From Cyngular's Research Team

In the world of cloud cybersecurity, timely and precise threat analysis and a proactive response are paramount.

With the increasing sophistication of nesting threats, professionals must have the right solution to quickly decipher the threat landscape, respond adeptly, and hunt threat actors proactively. Cyngular's capabilities promise to revolutionize the way we comprehend, tackle, and directly pursue nesting cyber threats.

Cyber Threat Hunting and Investigation in the Cloud

Comprehensive Timeline of Malicious Activities:

At the heart of effective investigation is a chronological representation of all malicious activities – and the retention of the chain of custody, all the artifacts and evidence. By stitching together a series of events based on artifacts, such a solution must offer analysts a clear and linear view of how a threat actors infiltrate and navigate a digital environment. Instead of sifting through logs or disparate insights, one must see the full story from inception to the present moment, answering critical questions such as when the breach occurred, what was accessed, how the threat evolved, and how to pursue remediation of it.

Detailed Descriptions for Each Timestamp:

For every event in the timeline, a solution must provide an accompanying description. The required narrative details what transpired at each timestamp, allowing the analyst to understand the nuances and implications of each action. This removes the guesswork and ambiguity often associated with nesting threat hunting, enabling a more strategic, informed, and proactive response in no time.

Automated Mitigation Recommendations:

Based on the nature of the nesting threat, its trajectory, and the assets it interacted with, the system must provide a curated list of proactive mitigation steps. This automated guidance integrated with AI capabilities, ensures that in the face of a nesting threat, an organization isn't just aware but is also equipped to hunt the threat actor swiftly and effectively.

Seeing is Understanding

Beyond the narrative and action items, an effective solution must provide an additional layer of clarity through its visual representation module.

Comprehensive Asset Visualization: Understanding the assets in an environment is fundamental to cybersecurity. Whether it's endpoints, servers, network devices, or the entire digital environment, a clear view of all assets ensures nothing slips through the cracks. An effective solution’s visual representation must present a map of these assets, giving analysts an at-a-glance understanding of their digital environment and its interconnectedness.

Highlighting Affected Assets:

More than just a static map, this visualization must be dynamic. Using a color-coded system, the module must highlight assets that have been affected by a nesting threat. This could immediately draw attention to potential hotspots or vulnerable areas, ensuring that analysts can prioritize their efforts effectively.

Enhancing Situation Awareness:

The combined visual and narrative approach means that even in the face of nesting threats, analysts maintain a high level of situational awareness and aggressively hunt threat actors. They can correlate the visual data with the timeline to understand the nesting threat's progression, affected assets, and potential targets to hunt. This fusion of visual and descriptive data must provide a 360-degree view of the threat landscape, and the means to proactively address threats.

Introducing a New Approach

By presenting data in an aggregated, visual, and descriptive manner, Cyngular ensures that nesting threat analysts spend less time deciphering data and more time responding to threats. The timeline cuts through the noise, and the visual module pinpoints affected areas, ensuring swift decision-making.

The detailed descriptions accompanying each event reduce the chances of misinterpretation. This, combined with the automated mitigation recommendations, ensures that responses are not just quick but also precise.

By understanding nesting threats in such granularity, organizations can move from a reactive stance to a more proactive one. They can anticipate potential next steps of a threat actor or identify patterns that may hint at larger, coordinated attacks.

For security teams, juggling multiple tools, logs, and alerts can be cumbersome. Cyngular’s investigation and visual representation modules bring end-to-end cohesiveness to the nesting threat analysis workflow, streamlining processes and ensuring a smoother operational rhythm.

In today's ecosystem of complex digital environments, where nesting threats and threat actors are continually evolving, clarity is the need of the hour.

Cyngular’s investigation capabilities, with its timeline, detailed descriptions, and automated mitigation steps, combined with the intuitive visual representation module, sets a new paradigm in threat hunting and investigation. By providing a holistic, clear, and actionable view of nesting threats and threat actors, Cyngular empowers organizations to defend their respective digital environments more effectively.

In the ever-evolving nesting threat landscape, tools like Cyngular's modules are not just advantageous – they are essential.

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Afterword

That's all for this week's newsletter. Our next issue will include another piece from Cyngular's Founder, a Featured Leader, and a new batch of 12 useful posts. Connect with us if you have anything to submit for our next issue or want to know more about Cyngular.

Notice:

The posts in this issue reflect the views only of the individual LinkedIn users and do not reflect the views of Cyngular Security, its employees, or any other entities. The links shared in this issue were written by LinkedIn users and do not constitute an endorsement of Cyngular Security, any other entities, or this newsletter by those users, entities, or the "Featured Leader."

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