Palo Alto Networks Inc. kicked off the annual Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas this week with today’s announcement of its Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management solution. The ASPM offering is designed to fix security issues before cloud and AI applications have been deployed. The traditional method of securing apps is a highly fragmented set of manual processes. Instead of a single, unified platform, developers rely on a collection of point products and manual processes that are disconnected from each other.

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Palo Alto Networks announces Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management

Infoblox Inc. recently published a second threat report to provide updates on the remote access toolkit, or RAT, called “Decoy Dog,” which the company discovered in April. To establish command and control, Decoy Dog uses the Domain Name System. The company also suspects it’s a secret tool nation-states use in cyberattacks.

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It’s raining RATs and dogs, with DNS as the target: How Infoblox is responding to Decoy Dog adaptations