Zero Trust security with Ping Identity and Cloudflare Access

Zero Trust security with Ping Identity and Cloudflare Access
Zero Trust security with Ping Identity and Cloudflare Access

In today's digital landscape, traditional perimeter based security models are no longer enough to protect sensitive data and applications. As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, it's essential to adopt a security approach that assumes that all access is unauthorized, rather than relying on network perimeter-based security.

Zero Trust is a security model that requires all users and devices to be authenticated and authorized before being granted access to applications and data. This approach offers a comprehensive security solution that is particularly effective in today's distributed and cloud-based environments. In this context, Cloudflare Access and Ping Identity offer a powerful solution for organizations looking to implement Zero Trust security controls to protect their applications and data.

Enforcing strong authentication and access controls

Web applications provide businesses with enhanced scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, but they can also create vulnerabilities that malicious actors can exploit. Ping Identity and Cloudflare Access can be used together to secure applications by enforcing strong authentication and access controls.

One of the key features of Ping Identity is its ability to provide single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, allowing users to log in once and be granted access to all applications they are authorized to use. This feature streamlines Continue reading

Scan and secure Atlassian with Cloudflare CASB

Scan and secure Atlassian with Cloudflare CASB
Scan and secure Atlassian with Cloudflare CASB

As part of Security Week, two new integrations are coming to Cloudflare CASB, one for Atlassian Confluence and the other for Atlassian Jira.

We’re excited to launch support for these two new SaaS applications (in addition to those we already support) given the reliance that we’ve seen organizations from around the world place in them for streamlined, end-to-end project management.

Let’s dive into what Cloudflare Zero Trust customers can expect from these new integrations.

CASB: Security for your SaaS apps

First, a quick recap. CASB, or Cloud Access Security Broker, is one of Cloudflare’s newer offerings, released last September to provide security operators - CISOs and security engineers - clear visibility and administrative control over the security of their SaaS apps.

Whether it’s Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Salesforce, Box, GitHub, or Atlassian (whew!), CASB can easily connect and scan these apps for critical security issues, and provide users an exhaustive list of identified problems, organized for triage.

Scan and secure Atlassian with Cloudflare CASB

Scan Confluence with Cloudflare CASB

Scan and secure Atlassian with Cloudflare CASB

Over time, Atlassian Confluence has become the go-to collaboration platform for teams to create, organize, and share content, such as documents, notes, and meeting minutes. However, from a security perspective, Confluence's flexibility and wide Continue reading

The state of application security in 2023

The state of application security in 2023
The state of application security in 2023

One year ago we published our first Application Security Report. For Security Week 2023, we are providing updated insights and trends around mitigated traffic, bot and API traffic, and account takeover attacks.

Cloudflare has grown significantly over the last year. In February 2023, Netcraft noted that Cloudflare had become the most commonly used web server vendor within the top million sites at the start of 2023, and continues to grow, reaching a 21.71% market share, up from 19.4% in February 2022.

This continued growth now equates to Cloudflare handling over 45 million HTTP requests/second on average (up from 32 million last year), with more than 61 million HTTP requests/second at peak. DNS queries handled by the network are also growing and stand at approximately 24.6 million queries/second. All of this traffic flow gives us an unprecedented view into Internet trends.

Before we dive in, we need to define our terms.

Definitions

Throughout this report, we will refer to the following terms:

Adding Zero Trust signals to Sumo Logic for better security insights

Adding Zero Trust signals to Sumo Logic for better security insights
Adding Zero Trust signals to Sumo Logic for better security insights

A picture is worth a thousand words and the same is true when it comes to getting visualizations, trends, and data in the form of a ready-made security dashboard.

Today we’re excited to announce the expansion of support for automated normalization and correlation of Zero Trust logs for Logpush in Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM. As a Cloudflare technology partner, Sumo Logic is the pioneer in continuous intelligence, a new category of software which enables organizations of all sizes to address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing.

The updated content in Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM helps joint Cloudflare customers reduce alert fatigue tied to Zero Trust logs and accelerates the triage process for security analysts by converging security and network data into high-fidelity insights. This new functionality complements the existing Cloudflare App for Sumo Logic designed to help IT and security teams gain insights, understand anomalous activity, and better trend security and network performance data over time.

Adding Zero Trust signals to Sumo Logic for better security insights

Deeper integration to deliver Zero Trust insights

Using Cloudflare Zero Trust helps protect users, devices, and data, and in the process can create a large volume of logs. These logs are helpful and important because Continue reading

Cloudflare One DLP integrates with Microsoft Information Protection labels

Cloudflare One DLP integrates with Microsoft Information Protection labels
Cloudflare One DLP integrates with Microsoft Information Protection labels

The crown jewels for an organization are often data, and the first step in protection should be locating where the most critical information lives. Yet, maintaining a thorough inventory of sensitive data is harder than it seems and generally a massive lift for security teams. To help overcome data security troubles, Microsoft offers their customers data classification and protection tools. One popular option are the sensitivity labels available with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. However, customers need the ability to track sensitive data movement even as it migrates beyond the visibility of Microsoft.

Today, we are excited to announce that Cloudflare One now offers Data Loss Prevention (DLP) detections for Microsoft Purview Information Protection labels. Simply integrate with your Microsoft account, retrieve your labels, and build rules to guide the movement of your labeled data. This extends the power of Microsoft’s labels to any of your corporate traffic in just a few clicks.

Data Classification with Microsoft Labels

Every organization has a wealth of data to manage, from publicly accessible data, like documentation, to internal data, like the launch date of a new product. Then, of course, there is the data requiring the highest levels of protection, such as customer PII. Continue reading

Leaf-and-Spine Fabrics Between Theory and Reality

I’m always envious of how easy networking challenges seem when you’re solving them in PowerPoint, for example, when an innovation specialist explains how scalability works in leaf-and-spine fabrics in a LinkedIn comment:

One of the main benefits of a CLOS folded spine topology is the scale out spine where you can scale out the number of spine nodes increasing your leaf-spine n-way ECMP as well as minimizing the blast radius with the more spine nodes the more redundancy and resiliency.

Isn’t that wonderful? If you need more bandwidth, sprinkle the magic spine powder on your fabric, add water, and voila! Problem solved. Also, it looks like adding spine switches reduces the blast radius. Who would have known?

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Leaf-and-Spine Fabrics Between Theory and Reality

I’m always envious of how easy networking challenges seem when you’re solving them in PowerPoint, for example, when an innovation specialist explains how scalability works in leaf-and-spine fabrics in a LinkedIn comment:

One of the main benefits of a CLOS folded spine topology is the scale out spine where you can scale out the number of spine nodes increasing your leaf-spine n-way ECMP as well as minimizing the blast radius with the more spine nodes the more redundancy and resiliency.

Isn’t that wonderful? If you need more bandwidth, sprinkle the magic spine powder on your fabric, add water, and voila! Problem solved. Also, it looks like adding spine switches reduces the blast radius. Who would have known?

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Securing the NSX management plane against exploits

Helping organizations protect their assets and infrastructure from evolving attack tactics and techniques is a priority at VMware. API-focused ransomware attacks have become an all-too-common trend, and we recommend that customers take extra care to reduce their attack surface by deploying NSX Manager — and any other manager console — in a hardened manner.  

Management infrastructure and common services typically allow broad access to other potentially more valuable resources within an organization, which in turn provides malicious actors with convenient platforms from which they can launch more damaging attacks. To manage that risk, VMware recommends the following steps to protect your management networks and services deployed within those networks:  

  • Do not expose NSX Manager to the internet: Like any other management console, NSX Manager should be installed within your internal network and accessed remotely only through a secure VPN connection. 
  • Use strong authentication methods: Ensure that strong authentication methods, such as multi-factor authentication, are used for all NSX Manager logins. 
  • Use secure communication protocols: Use secure communication protocols, such as SSL/TLS, to protect the communication between NSX Manager and other components in the environment. 
  • Implement network segmentation: Segment the network to limit the Continue reading

Submarine Cable Resilience

How do you protect a submarine cable from interference? Do you use more amour plating? Or laying the cable in a sea floor trench? Or simply lay more cables? Or do you head off into radio-based systems?

You’re Responsible for the User Experience—No Matter Which Networks It’s Delivered Over

The following post is by Jeremy Rossbach, Chief Technical Evangelist at Broadcom. We thank Broadcom for being a sponsor. Hybrid work and the ongoing transformations ushered in by SD-WAN, cloud, SaaS, and SASE have created an entirely new network landscape for today’s network operations (NetOps) teams to manage and monitor. Now, the user experience is […]

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Best-of-breed networking: There’s an opportunity for white boxes in the WAN

Everyone wants the best network, so they say, but as usual with “bestness” goals, there’s not much agreement on how to achieve it. Do you go for best-of-breed in your equipment, or maybe for three vendors per product area, or maybe open white-box networks? A bit over three-quarters of enterprises said in 2020 that open networks and white boxes would give them best of breed options, but what’s happened since then seems like a blast from the past, vendor-wise.Let’s start with an interesting truth. Well over 95% of established enterprises who can look back to the origins of their networks say that they started off with a single-vendor network. Enterprises who launched within the last five years (which are very few) account for almost all those who didn’t start off with one vendor. If you think about it, this is logical, because starting off with networking is daunting enough without adding in the complication of network integration and the management of multiple sources of technology.To read this article in full, please click here

Tech Bytes: Automating Network Administration At Scale With BackBox (Sponsored)

Today's Tech Bytes podcast gets into network automation with sponsor BackBox. BackBox’s approach to automation is to focus on network engineers and integrate automation with how they already do their jobs. BackBox works with more than 180 network and security vendors.

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Network Break 421: Huawei Is Both In And Out Of German Networks; Hot-Desking Rubs Hybrid Workers Wrong

Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine Germany's mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks, and debate whether employees' frustration over Google's desk-sharing plan is just entitled whining or a legitimate complaint. Plus more IT news.

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Enhancing/Maximizing your Scaling capability with Automation Controller 2.3

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 is the next generation automation platform from Red Hat’s trusted enterprise technology experts. We are excited to announce that the Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 release includes automation controller 4.3.

In the previous blog, we saw that automation controller 4.1 provides significant performance improvements as compared to Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8. Automation controller 4.3 is taking that one step further. We will elaborate on an important change with callback receiver workers in automation controller 4.3 and how it can have an impact on the performance.

 

Callback Receiver

The callback receiver is the process in charge of transforming the standard output of Ansible into serialized objects in the automation controller database. This enables reviewing and querying results from across all your infrastructure and automation.  This process is I/O and CPU intensive and requires performance considerations.

Every control node in automation controller has a callback receiver process. It receives job events that result from Ansible jobs. Job events are JSON structures, created when Ansible calls the runner callback plugin hooks. This enables Ansible to capture the result of a playbook run. The job event data structures contain Continue reading

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