What Is Air Gapping? Air Gapping for Security, PCI DSS Requirements, and Other Compliance Challenges

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What is air gapping? Air gapping is something that is used within military environments, in airplanes, nuclear power plants, financial institutions and other critical infrastructure, but what is air gapping really? Air gapping is a cybersecurity and compliance measure in which one or more computers are physically disconnected, or isolated, from untrusted or unsecure networks […]

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Tools ‘in Action’ for Endpoint Intrusion Detection and Response

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Your security systems can’t stop an attack unless they detect there is one, making file integrity monitoring (FIM), or the ability to automatically track changes to the environment, crucial in detection and prevention. This detection needs to be not only fast but deep enough to stop the likes of the SolarWinds Sunburst attack, which leveraged […]

Achieving AWS Compliance: Considerations for IT and Cloud Security Teams

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Most every IT organization has wrestled with achieving regulatory compliance, meeting auditors requirements, and reporting to management and other stakeholders. Moving workloads to the cloud introduces new wrinkles to an already thorny set of problems. For organizations moving to the Amazon cloud, it’s critical that they understand their new and changing issues and responsibilities associated […]

Leveraging OSSEC for Cloud Compliance and Security

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Moving to the cloud presents a host of security and compliance responsibilities for enterprise security and IT teams.  While cloud providers handle hardware and infrastructure, cloud workloads themselves must be secured by the enterprise. Traditional on-premise controls and network security don’t work in the perimeter-less virtual environment of the public cloud. OSSEC offers a free […]

Atomicorp Adds Amazon Alexa to OSSEC Cybersecurity Solution

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Amazon Alexa has ushered in a new era of voice interaction for consumers and the enterprise. Over 47 million consumers in the U.S. have access to a smart speaker at home and last fall Amazon Echos started showing up in the workplace based on the Alexa for Business framework. Atomicorp immediately recognized that voice interaction […]

Announcing the release of Atomic Secured Linux 5.0.2

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Atomicorp is proud to announce the release of ASLâ„¢ 5.0.2! A next generation server security solution that addresses the unique security problems of servers. ASLâ„¢ 5.0.2 is an update driven by customer feedback and is part of Atomicorp’s commitment to deliver the latest product updates in one convenient installation.  Atomic Secured Linuxâ„¢ is the […]

Tutorial: “Decompromising” a site serving malicious code

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By popular demand we’ve put together a video tutorial (one of many I hope) on how you can use ASL to solve a problem. In this episode, imagine you are an administrator of a system with multiple customers, all with different sites, applications, and owners. You cant touch the code.. and yet, the code has […]