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Assessing Endpoint Protection: Our Approach to EDR/XDR and Supplements Evaluation

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a growing landscape of security products promising to protect an organization’s IT infrastructure from attacks. Solutions referred to as EDR, and sometimes also as XDR, are designed to protect endpoints from all malicious activity. The ever-increasing cases of breaches and the associated costs, especially in the realm of ransomware attacks, raise the question of whether there is more that can be done to add an additional layer to traditional endpoint protection concepts. That is why a customer of ours commissioned us to evaluate whether EDR supplementing solutions provide extended protection against ever-evolving threats, as well as to shine a light on the performance overheads those solutions might introduce.

CVE-2024-11035: Minor Security Issues in VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We recently conducted a security assessment of VMware Carbon Black Cloud, a unified SaaS solution that integrates endpoint detection and response (EDR), anti-virus, and vulnerability management capabilities. As part of our evaluation, we tested the solution’s ability to detect and prevent malicious activity on Windows and Linux systems. Our analysis focused on the Carbon Black agents for these platforms, and although we did not identify any critical vulnerabilities, we want to share some of the findings in this blog post.

Select * from OpenStack - A Steampipe Plugin for OpenStack

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Although, more and more companies start to move their IT-Infrastructure from on-premise to public cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, public cloud providers are not an option for every organization. This is where private cloud platforms come into play as they give organizations direct control over their information, can be more energy efficient than other on-premise hosting solutions, and offer companies the possibility to manage their data centers efficiently. OpenStack is a widely deployed, open-source private cloud platform many companies and universities use.

Pentesting the ELK Stack

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

With this blog post, I will provide information on how to proceed when testing ELK Stack landscapes. Information regarding the exploitation of the ELK Stack is very rare on the internet. Therefore, following article aims to provide you with some approaches that can be useful during a penetration test.

Disclaimer:

All information below were collected during a research project and there is no claim for completeness. The guide focuses on ELK Stack deployments for Linux machines. Further, this article does not include information for identifying misconfigurations in a white-box configuration audit.