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AI May Not Steal Your Job, But It Could Eliminate It With A Devastating Cyberattack

March 17, 2023
Est Read Time: 3 min
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have been used in a variety of cybersecurity tools - but let’s talk about the flip side of that coin. How could AI be used to attack, rather than defend?
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Cybersecurity Insights
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Effective Penetration Testing Frameworks and Methodologies

March 16, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min
Penetration testing is vital to identify potential security vulnerabilities on a network before cybercriminals find and...
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Modernizing Pentesting

Gartner Names Cobalt in Report on DevSecOps Tools for Secure Software Delivery

March 15, 2023
Est Read Time: 2 min
Gartner's recent report “How to Select DevSecOps Tools for Secure Software Delivery” gives a birds-eye view of the technology landscape, emphasizing the benefits to integrating developer-friendly tools into DevOps pipelines. In a section of the report titled “Preproduction and Release Phases” Gartner name-drops Cobalt as a representative penetration testing vendor.
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Modernizing Pentesting

Active Directory Series: Active Directory Fundamentals

March 13, 2023
Est Read Time: 12 min
Active Directory is a Microsoft service that provides centralized management of user accounts, devices, and access to resources in a networked environment. It allows IT professionals to create and manage users, groups, computers, and other resources on a network, and control access to those resources based on policies and permissions.
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Cobalt Core Pentester Guides

Cobalt Release Blog: February 2023

March 10, 2023
Est Read Time: 1 min
Read about the improvements we launched to our PtaaS Platform last month: new integrations, asset vulnerability updates, and more.
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Product Updates
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The Life of a Bug

March 3, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min
With this post I'll present a way to better understand bugs, from their origin until their death. I’ll do this by introducing the idea of a security bug pipeline and Fix-to-Fix framework.
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Modernizing Pentesting
Decoding the Differences: Black, Gray, and White-Box Pentests

Decoding the Differences: Black, Gray, and White-Box Pentests

March 1, 2023
Est Read Time: 5 min
Different types of pentesting methods have designated colors with the key differences.
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Cybersecurity Insights

Security Touchpoints in the Big Data Lifecycle

February 28, 2023
Est Read Time: 9 min
More and more teams want to access the sensitive data you're managing? Here's a guide on how to keep it secure while enabling the business to innovate.
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Cybersecurity Insights

Pentester’s Guide to XPATH Injection

February 27, 2023
Est Read Time: 6 min
XPath is a powerful language used to query and manipulate XML documents. It allows you to extract data, transform XML documents, query large datasets, and modify the structure and content of XML documents. XPath injection attacks occur when an attacker manipulates XPath statements to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.
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