My mission to reduce the Attack Surface.

I started this mission back in 2015, and now 5 years into it I am now more convinced than ever the mission is worth while and will continue to protect the enterprise far into the future. The most important and fundamental principle of the mission is securing your enterprise by reducing the attack surface. This […]

“BlackCloud, The Internet is going dark” CIO Europe Article

https://cloud-banking.bankingciooutlook.com/cxo-insights/black-cloud-the-internet-is-going-dark-nwid-960.html Written by Tony Fergusson – Cloud Security Blogger.

Black Cloud, how the internet is going dark

The number of open listening ports on the internet is around 185 million (https://census.io). This means there is plenty of opportunity to exploit these open services, as it is now possible to scan the entire internet in under 1 hour for a particular port (service) (https://Zmap.io). Can we somehow hide open ports (services) on the […]

End of an Era for VPN?

The legacy method of granting users access to applications in the enterprise is to extend the network perimeter to the client. This is achieved by routing the traffic between the client and the network edge in one secure tunnel. This approach poses a security risk as the user usually has full access to all network […]