Tag: monitoring
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Open-source MCP server monitoring for Python apps
Pythonic Model Context Protocol servers handle tool calls, session events, module imports, and subprocess activity. BlueRock has released MCP Python Hooks, an open source … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/07/bluerock-mcp-python-hooks-mcp-server-monitoring/
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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Allianz Hands Commercial Cyber Insurance Unit to Coalition
Allianz Retains Risk Exposure While Outsourcing Cyber Insurance Operations. Allianz will transition operational control of its standalone commercial cyber insurance business to Coalition, combining the insurer’s global distribution and balance sheet with Coalition’s cyber underwriting, monitoring and incident response capabilities in a long-term strategic partnership. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/allianz-hands-commercial-cyber-insurance-unit-to-coalition-a-31618
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Phishing Attack Weaponizes Calendar Invites to Steal Login Credentials
A new large-scale phishing campaign is abusing fake event invitations to compromise U.S. organizations, combining credential theft, OTP interception, and the deployment of remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in a single operation. The campaign stands out because it blends familiar user workflows with legitimate-looking infrastructure, making it harder for security teams to spot and…
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Paessler ernennt Mav Turner zum Chief Product Officer, um KI-gestütztes Monitoring voranzutreiben
Paessler, ein führender Anbieter von IT- und OT-Monitoring-Lösungen, gibt die Ernennung von Mav Turner zum Chief Product Officer bekannt. Diese Personalie stärkt die Marktposition von Paessler, während das Unternehmen weiterhin in Innovationen investiert, die IT- und OT-Teams dabei unterstützen, komplexe Infrastrukturen schnell, einfach und zuverlässig zu überwachen. Mav Turner verfügt über fast 15 Jahre Erfahrung…
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New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks
Persistence through rootkits and PAM backdoors: The researchers also wrote of QLNX’s use of rootkits and Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to establish long term persistence. According to Trend Micro, the malware leverages rootkit functionality to conceal malicious activity, processes, and components from administrative tools and security monitoring systems.The malware was also observed tampering with…
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Five Eyes Sound Alarm on Autonomous AI Security Risks
Guidance Warns Autonomous Systems Expand Enterprise Exposure. Federal and Five Eyes cyber agencies warn that agentic AI systems – capable of autonomous action across enterprise environments – are introducing identity, visibility and control risks that could outpace existing defenses without continuous monitoring, zero trust enforcement and human oversight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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RMM Tools Fuel Stealthy Phishing Campaign
Attackers are abusing two remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to evade detection in a campaign that has impacted over 80 organizations so far. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/rmm-tools-stealthy-phishing-campaign
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Phishing Campaign Hits 80+ Orgs Using SimpleHelp and ScreenConnect RMM Tools
An active phishing campaign has been observed targeting multiple vectors since at least April 2025, with legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software as a way to establish persistent remote access to compromised hosts.The activity, codenamed VENOMOUS#HELPER, has impacted over 80 organizations, most of which are in the U.S., according to Securonix. It shares overlaps…
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Security agencies draw red lines around agentic AI deployments
Tags: access, advisory, ai, automation, awareness, cisa, control, data, governance, injection, international, monitoring, risk, risk-management, toolContinuous monitoring with human-in-the-loop control: While the first half of the advisory focused on limiting what agents can do, the second was about watching what they actually do, reacting quickly when things go sideways.”Operators should implement continuous monitoring and auditing to maintain awareness of AI agent operation and ensure traceability for decisions and actions,” CISA…
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Best Oracle GRC Alternatives for Oracle E-Business Suite: Replacing AACG, CCG, TCG and PCG
Many organizations still rely on Oracle GRC Advanced Controls for Oracle E-Business Suite”, including AACG, CCG, TCG and PCG”, as the backbone of their access governance, continuous controls monitoring, and compliance efforts. That was a reasonable choice for a long time. But the world those tools were built for”, on-premise ERP, slower change cycles, and…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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How CISOs should utilize data security posture management to inform risk
Tags: access, ai, automation, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, data, detection, finance, iam, incident response, monitoring, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, service, siem, software, tool, update, vulnerabilityApplying the principles at any maturity level: Whether you’re working with a full DSPM platform, a lightweight open-source scanner or even manual data inventories, CISOs can use this thinking to apply quantification (or at least an order of magnitude) to risk decisions. For example, you may have a written policy in place that a database…
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Attackers Hijack SAP npm Packages to Steal Dev Secrets
A sophisticated supply chain attack hit the SAP developer ecosystem on April 29, 2026, compromising four widely-used npm packages with credential-stealing malware. The attackers modified package installation scripts to download the Bun JavaScript runtime a legitimate alternative to Node.js during the npm install process. This technique bypasses Node.js-based security monitoring by executing an 11.6 MB…
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New Android Spyware Platform Enables Rebranding and Resale
A newly discovered Android spyware platform is raising concerns among cybersecurity researchers by introducing a business model that allows buyers to rebrand and resell surveillance malware as their own product. Buyers can subscribe to the service, customize branding, and launch their own spyware operation with minimal effort. KidsProtect presents itself as a parental monitoring app,…
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Capability Deep Dive
The Two Control Gaps Oracle Risk Management Cloud (RMC) Can’t Provide: Mitigation, Monitoring, and Materialized Risk Detection Your Oracle environment will always have some elevated access. The real question is whether you can show it was controlled, monitored, and not misused over time. Problem: Some Oracle risks can’t be removed Some Oracle Segregation of Duties……
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…
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Mastering agentic AI security through exposure management
As AI tools evolve from siloed chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected systems, they create a vast new attack surface. Discover how to manage this risk by focusing on visibility, agency, and semantic security to protect your organization’s increasingly complex landscape of agentic AI systems. Key takeaways Organizations have moved from siloed AI chatbots to autonomous, hyperconnected…
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Deploying SafePaaS in Oracle E”‘Business Suite: A 90″‘Day Blueprint to Continuous, Independent Control Monitoring
This blueprint shows how a large Oracle E”‘Business Suite (EBS) enterprise deploys SafePaaS as an independent control layer alongside EBS, identity providers, and identity governance and administration (IGA), and how it operates day to day once live. It is designed for complex, audit”‘intensive EBS environments with multiple operating units, sets of books and ledgers, recurring……
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Deploying SafePaaS in Oracle E”‘Business Suite: A 90″‘Day Blueprint to Continuous, Independent Control Monitoring
This blueprint shows how a large Oracle E”‘Business Suite (EBS) enterprise deploys SafePaaS as an independent control layer alongside EBS, identity providers, and identity governance and administration (IGA), and how it operates day to day once live. It is designed for complex, audit”‘intensive EBS environments with multiple operating units, sets of books and ledgers, recurring……
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Hackernoon – Why Cloud Monitoring Has Become K12’s Most Critical Cyber Defense Tool
This article was originally published in Hackernoon on 04/23/26 by Charlie Sander. It starts with a simple student login”¦ One account gets phished, a file is dropped into a shared drive, and within minutes, malware has synced and spread across the entire network. By the time IT teams notice, the damage is already systemic ……
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How Real-Time Monitoring Protects Cloud Environments from Threats
Most modern businesses depend heavily on cloud systems today. Companies use them to store data and run applications every day. They also rely on them to manage users and business operations. That convenience comes with risk. Attackers look for gaps, misconfigurations, and slow responses. This is exactly where real time cloud monitoring changes the game….…
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AI Usage Monitoring: How to See Everything Your Employees Are Doing with AI FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, ciso, compliance, control, data, detection, GDPR, guide, login, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, toolApr 29, 2026 – Lina Romero – What is AI usage monitoring? AI usage monitoring is the practice of logging, tracking, and analysing how employees and systems interact with AI tools, both sanctioned and unsanctioned. FireTail provides centralised AI activity logging that gives security teams a real-time view of AI usage across the entire organisation.…
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More fake extensions linked to GlassWorm found in Open VSX code marketplace
Tags: control, marketplace, monitoring, open-source, risk, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vulnerabilityAdvice for developers: Janca said developers who want to reduce their exposure to the GlassWorm campaign should start with the basics: install fewer extensions and treat each one as a dependency with real risk attached. Disable auto-update so you control when updates are applied, and carefully evaluate each one. Use a next-generation SCA tool that covers…
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Bridging the EU AI Act Compliance Gap FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, GDPR, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, privacy, risk, risk-management, tool, trainingApr 28, 2026 – Lina Romero – What the EU AI Act demandsThe EU AI Act classifies AI according to risk. Unacceptable risk is prohibited outright. High-risk AI systems are heavily regulated. Limited-risk systems face transparency obligations. The majority of obligations fall on providers, though deployers carry meaningful obligations too. If your organisation builds AI, buys…