Work-Life Harmony at Praetorian: A Parent’s Perspective

| | culture, people
I interviewed with Praetorian’s CEO while holding my baby on my lap. She was in her first few months of daycare – as parents know, that phase means dealing with an endless stream of nasty viruses. In this instance, she was sent home with a fever and I could not ... Read More

Log4j vulnerability: Lessons learned in a week

Introduction In this blog post, Praetorian reflects on customer challenges, successes, and lessons learned from our response to the Log4j industry-wide response. Background On the Friday evening of December 10th, Praetorian research and development teams sprang into action, confirming vulnerable systems or exposed vulnerable endpoints for a large number of ... Read More

Log4j Update: False Negatives and Additional Recommendations

We had a busy weekend here at Praetorian. Following the initial disclosure of the Log4j (Log4Shell)* vulnerability, we’ve added a capability to identify the issue to our attack surface enumeration tool. As we scanned production environments for the vulnerability over the weekend we’ve learned a lot more about how the ... Read More

Log4j: It’s worse than you think

On December 9th, 2021, a new 0-day vulnerability in the popular Java logging package log4j v2.x was announced. The vulnerability is particularly unpleasant as exploitation frequently requires only the ability to cause the system to log an attacker controlled string to a vulnerable logging instance. Thus, the routes of exploitation ... Read More

The Student’s Guide to Navigating a Virtual Job Search

| | college, people
The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the traditional workplace and thrust us into a “future workforce,” nearly overnight. We went from onsite college recruiting fairs and conferences to virtual everything. Long-standing tips and recommendations for new grads may no longer be applicable as we embark on this uncharted territory. While ... Read More
Introducing Snowcat: World’s First Dedicated Security Scanner for Istio

Introducing Snowcat: World’s First Dedicated Security Scanner for Istio

Why Service Meshes Matter Over the last few years, the pace of moving workloads to the cloud has continued to accelerate. Mostly, this has been a boon for innovation, allowing complex monolithic on-prem instances to be broken into microservice architectures, which provide decoupling, agility, and stability. From a development perspective, ... Read More