In today’s multi-cloud world, businesses deploy workloads across dozens of public and private clouds, each with their own network topology, security controls, and operational quirks. Over time this flexibility comes at a cost of increasing complexity and risk. How can budget minded IT team sanely enforce complex security policies, prevent AI-powered cyber breaches by foreign entities, and maintain geographical compliance across such a diverse environment?  They can do so with a partner that leads with an open garden, agnostic approach. Check Point cloud firewalls, called CloudGuard Network Security, provide integrations across 22 leading public and private cloud vendors from AWS, […]

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Introduction: Security Testing Must Evolve with Attacks As cyber threats rise, web applications, GenAI workloads, and APIs have become prime targets. WAFs remain a critical first line of defense, but as attackers move beyond basic OWASP Top 10 techniques, WAF testing must evolve. Modern attacks increasingly rely on evasion methods, payload padding, and zero-day techniques designed to bypass signature-based WAFs. The WAF Comparison Project 2026 presents the results of our third annual, real-world evaluation of WAF efficacy (see the last year result here), using over 1 million legitimate requests and 74,000 malicious payloads to assess 14 leading WAF vendors, including […]

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Simplifying Cloud Network Security When securing cloud landscapes, it’s critically important to eliminate any downtime or performance degradation that firewall or gateway implementation may cause. To address these challenges, Check Point is proud to announce our support for Google Cloud Network Security Integration. This innovation creates a nondisruptive approach to cloud firewall deployment, increasing network security without negatively impacting performance. Scaling Hybrid Cloud Network Security Network security and performance are critical to any organization, but this is especially true for industries under heavy regulations like financial services, healthcare, and government. So over time these organizations gain comfort, expertise, and confidence […]

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In this video, John Strand discusses the complexities and challenges of penetration testing, emphasizing that it goes beyond just finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

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This webcast was originally published on September 26, 2024. In this video, Kevin Klingbile from Black Hills Information Security discusses the intricacies of Azure Cloud services and M365, focusing on […]

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| Nigel Douglas As a Developer Advocate working on Project Falco, Nigel Douglas plays a key role in driving education for the Open-Source Detection and Response (D&R) segment of cloud-native […]

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By Beau Bullock & Steve Borosh TL;DR We built a post-compromise toolset called GraphRunner for interacting with the Microsoft Graph API. It provides various tools for performing reconnaissance, persistence, and […]

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Mike Felch// How to Purge Google and Start Over – Part 1 Brief Recap In part 1, we discussed a red team engagement that went south when the Google SOC […]

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Mike Felch// A Tale of Blue Destroying Red Let me start by sharing a story about a fairly recent red team engagement against a highly-secured technical customer that didn’t end […]

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John Strand talks about how BHIS pen tests companies who use the cloud. Want to know how you can defend against attacks in your cloud infrastructure? Keep your eyes peeled for […]

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Carrie Roberts //* REMnux is a free virtual machine image with Reverse Engineering Malware tools preinstalled. REMnux is maintained by Lenny Zeltser with extensive help from David Westcott and is available from https://remnux.org. I have […]

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Carrie Roberts* // How does password cracking in the cloud compare to down here on earth? Maybe not as heavenly as imagined. I saw this on the web and got […]

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Beau Bullock // Overview The traditional methodology of a remote attacker who has no preconceptions of a target network used to be fairly static. With organizations moving to “the cloud”, […]

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