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Excellium Services and BitSight: which level of control do you have on your cybersecurity supply chain?

Contern – Luxembourg, 19th October 2021

Organizations are used to conduct mature processes to onboard a third-party, through sourcing, procurement, or vendor management. However, such processes do not often cover the long-term perspective and controls about any change that may occur within their partners. Manual interactions with the third-parties have an expensive cost and require staff that are focused on other concerns. Evaluation of the cybersecurity posture of third parties do not diverge from that trend. However, as a breach in a supplier’s Information System may have a huge impact on your own, how to conciliate a proper risk assessment and agility in an ever-growing interconnected world?

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Excecution test plan for the public API
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How to automatically validate the configuration of your API Gateway?

API everywhere…

Today, it is common for software, companies, etc. to provide a web API to expose data to their customers or partners11. https://blog.postman.com/api-growth-rate/. The objective is to facilitate the integration between Information Systems and create new business opportunities. For example, for banks, API was a way to provide more services to their customers through mobile applications. Do you remember the last time you needed to contact your bank directly or go physically to your bank agency?

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Banner XLM360 for O365
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Access the potential of the cloud to enhance global security

With its Excellium360 for Office 365 & Azure offering, the BELUX cybersecurity specialist provides its customers with access to advanced security features, such as Microsoft’s SIEM “Sentinel” solution. Integrated with Excellium’s Security Operations Center, it enables the cybersecurity of IT environments deployed both on-premises and in the cloud to be reinforced. Read more

Example of Security.txt file
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How to report a security issue in a standardized manner with Security.txt

The sushi syntax is incorrect

Our story begins on a Friday evening. An InfoSec guy passes an order on an only sushi shop to take a romantic break with his sweetheart. He selects dishes and clicks on the “Checkout” button, however, instead of receiving the expected checkout page, he gets an SQL error page:

“You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near “Sushi”.”

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Codes- data breach
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How to test your defence in-depth with the Assume Breach approach

For the past two years, we observed growing requests of companies towards realistic tests based on breach and crisis simulations. Indeed, the classic model shows its limits when an application or a network has been tested many times. One can be pretty sure that the first line is secured, but another one can also be completely blind about what could happen next if it is not the case.

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Password hashing template
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Password hashing: Be careful about what you hash!

Context of the hashing issue

During a web assessment, Excellium’s Intrusion & AppSec team audited a PHP application where users passwords were stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm. As bcrypt 1https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet.htmlis still a valid and recommended algorithm to hash passwords, compromising passwords 2https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passwords/Common-Credentials  should not be an easy task. However, sometimes, the devil is in the details. 

 

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Qui se cache à l’ombre de votre Active Directory ?

C’était la période de Noël au royaume de l’Active Directory. Les administrateurs parcouraient leur domaine, tel de joyeux lutins, confiant en la sécurité mise en place. Et pourtant, tapis à l’orée de la forêt, des envahisseurs attendent le moindre faux-pas pour les prendre dans leurs pièges et sceller le destin du royaume.

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