Alex Haynes is an independent researcher with a background in offensive security. He is credited for discovering vulnerabilities in products by Microsoft, Adobe, Pinterest, Amazon Web Services and IBM. He is a former Top 10 ranked researcher on Bugcrowd and a member of the Synack Red Team. He is also a frequent contributor to InfoSec publications and speaks regularly at conferences on the topics of offensive security, vulnerability management and crowdsourced security. He is currently the CISO at IBS Software.
Over a decade ago, the front page of ‘the economist’ once had a nuclear mushroom cloud with the caption ‘Cyberwar: the threat from the internet’. A dramatic way to encapsulate the vision of how we perceived the impact of such a threat. Since then the term ‘cyberwar’ is bandied around a lot without any real … Read more
Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) are a new category of security tools that are designed to protect cloud-native applications. CNAPPs are a combination of functionality that comprise Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP), and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). More recently they’ve integrated SAST (Static Application Security Testing) for workloads … Read more
Over the past few years, numerous well-known brands and major corporations have been targeted by cyber-attacks resulting in the exposure of millions of customers’ personal and sensitive information, making data breaches an increasingly common occurrence. Although the immediate effects of these breaches can be severe for both affected individuals and companies, there is potential for … Read more
Many industry professionals bemoan the lack of qualified candidates within information security and resource scarcity is a common issue for many companies. According to latest estimates and depending which numbers you follow, there is a potential shortfall of up to one million cybersecurity professionals globally and this is just getting worse. Granted, geo-political issues like … Read more
Every year at the bevy of conferences that dot the Information Security landscape you can always detect an inherent theme. This may be influenced by acute threats (i.e., Ransomware), a new regulatory environment (i.e., GDPR) or even just a sudden change in how we work, as we all experienced during the pandemic. The issue Zero … Read more
During the build-up to the illegal invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, there was consternation among information security professionals about what would happen on the cyber front. The prevailing groupthink at the time was that if countries in the West imposed sanctions, then they would suddenly be subjected to blistering Russian cyber-attacks that would … Read more
Third-party onboarding today isn’t easy and with the rise in supply chain attacks, the importance of auditing and ensuring your third parties won’t impact your infrastructure from a security perspective remains a burning issue. Many companies still maintain a tick box approach when onboarding or managing third parties and mainly consist of sending out questionnaires … Read more
The Russian invasion of the Ukraine was bound to have a part of the conflict rooted in cyberspace. The rise of crowdsourced security in the current war has taken an interesting turn.
At 2:25pm, on the 9th of December 2021, an infamous (now deleted) tweet linking a 0-day proof of concept exploit for the vulnerability that came to be known as ‘Log4Shell’ on github (also now deleted), set the internet on fire and kicked off a holiday season of companies scrambling to mitigate, patch and then patch … Read more
As we enter National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it’s easy to forget that your personal security posture in your home environment is just as important as your enterprise environment. There’s so much focus today on enterprise security that it’s easy to overlook something that can have as much impact on your day to day as in … Read more
