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January 10, 2025

CIEM vs. CSPM: A Comprehensive Comparison

Daniel Shaoul
Daniel Shaoul
To what extent do organizations need fine-grained access control? Or is broader coverage over cloud infrastructure a bigger immediate risk to manage? Which aligns better with GDPR? SOC 2? To counter immediate risk? And is combining these cloud tools just a path to duplicate coverage? Those are all good questions that point to the reality…
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December 23, 2024

Understand eBPF Security: Deep Visibility & Real-Time Threat

Daniel Shaoul
Daniel Shaoul
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) isn’t an agent. And it doesn’t exactly function like one, either. What is it? What does it do, and what security gaps does it close that agents can’t? What about performance? We’re breaking down what eBPF security includes, but then going deeper into visibility tradeoffs, operational overhead, and compliance concerns…
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November 19, 2024

Understand Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP)

Denise Ashur
Denise Ashur
Both Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) and traditional Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) face similar challenges, namely, how to gain real-time visibility and protection from within applications themselves.  As threats move closer to the application layer and teams become more concerned with runtime behaviors that perimeter defenses can’t reach, it’s worth talking about how deep runtime…
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November 19, 2024

Choosing the Right SBOM Format for Your Security Team

Bar Klinghofer
Bar Klinghofer
When teams are interested in SBOMs for their asset and dependency tracking, they’ll look for formats that integrate smoothly with existing CI/CD pipelines, are easy to automate, and offer minimal disruption to workflows. However, multiple teams, all with different needs, are likely to put their own stamps on SBOMs, making consistency and sharing across organizations…
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