Evolving Threats and Regulations in Software Supply Chain Security
2023 is in the rearview mirror and 2024 is now well underway. I wanted to post my thoughts on some of the software supply chain trends we saw last year and how they will continue to shape...
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EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Clears Penultimate Step
On December 3rd, the EU's new Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) got a big step closer to being adopted when the European Parliament and the EU Council reached an agreement on the legislation. It...
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The Wretched State of OT Firmware Patching
This blog is a follow-up to our first post on the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report where I described our collaboration with Microsoft on identified exploitable OT vulnerabilities.There...
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Microsoft Digital Defense Report: Behind the Scenes Creating OT Vulnerabilities
Earlier this summer, aDolus collaborated with Microsoft on vulnerability analysis and contributed to their Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 (MDDR 2023). This report is a significant...
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An Analysis of Generative AI: How to Be Confidently Wrong
The recent release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy document by the White House prompted me to test Microsoft's new Bing chat feature, which is powered by OpenAI's language model,...
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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 3: VEX Document Ingestion
Three weeks ago I reported on the first part of the S4x23 SBOM Challenge run by Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which focused on SBOM Creation. Last week I reported on the second part:...
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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 2: SBOM Ingestion
Two weeks ago I reported on the first part of the SBOM Challenge at the S4x23 cybersecurity conference in Miami, Florida. The Day 1 goal was for each team to create an accurate SBOM for...
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Three Quick Takeaways from Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy
NOTE: We were going to publish our second blog of the S4x23 SBOM Challenge today. However, the new National Cybersecurity Strategy was released this morning, and we thought that...
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S4x23 SBOM Challenge — Part 1
The aDolus Team has just returned from participating in the SBOM Challenge at the S4x23 cybersecurity conference in Miami, Florida. This blog is the first of a series reporting on what we...
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A Flurry of Regulatory Action and the Need for SBOMs
Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity was issued in May of 2021 and provided a roadmap for a series of regulatory initiatives that government agencies (and anyone...
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A Deeper Dive into VEX Documents
At the end of last summer, I wrote a blog post explaining the merits of Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) documents. Almost 8 months later, I stand by the importance of these...
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How Russia Might Come After the West
The DDoS attack surge that began last week against Ukrainian government agencies and banks was a bad sign. I was actually preparing a post and wondering if it was appropriate to call out...
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Log4j: Panic or Lesson? | How to Protect Deployed Assets
Cleaning up the Mess will Take a Methodical Approach Nearly every week the cybersecurity community buzzes around a newly discovered vulnerability or a breach. December’s alert for the ...
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Sorry Blackberry: You Are Part of the Supply Chain
Today, reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Eric Geller at Politico published a story: “BlackBerry resisted announcing major flaw in software powering cars, hospital equipment.” They outline...
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What is VEX and What Does it Have to Do with SBOMs?
Recently, we have been fielding many inquiries here at aDolus regarding “VEX.” If you are not familiar with this mysterious abbreviation, you’ve fortunately landed in the right place....
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NTIA Publishes Minimum Components of an SBOM
In today’s blog post I’d like to recognize all the hard work done by NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) and congratulate them on publishing the minimum...
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Kaseya Supply Chain Attack on SMBs
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on the Executive Order’s Impact On Embedded Device Security hosted by ISSSource.com. I signed off with a comment about my biggest worry: ...
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aDolus Welcomes Mark Weatherford to Board
Cybersecurity veteran tapped to accelerate growth of ICS supply chain security leader VICTORIA, BC, CANADA, June 23 -- aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software intelligence...
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Rod Campbell Joins aDolus as CEO
Seasoned financial and advisory executive to drive growth VICTORIA, BC, CANADA, June 15, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software intelligence for...
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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 4
Section 3 - Less Fog, More Cloud Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity of the Executive Order is all about government agencies moving to the cloud and doing it right. If...
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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 3
So you don’t sell to the Feds… Today’s blog is going to take a break from analyzing a specific section of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and focus on who will...
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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 2
Removing Barriers to Sharing Threat Information On Friday we dissected Section 4: Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security of the new Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity...
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Unpacking EO14028: Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity - Pt. 1
Late Wednesday night President Biden signed the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. Compared to any Executive Order (EO) I’ve seen, this is a massive and complex...
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Verve Industrial and aDolus Partner to Reduce ICS Software Supply Chain Risk
Verve embeds aDolus’ ability to generate SBOMs and validate components aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software intelligence for critical infrastructure, today announced its...
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Industrial Defender and aDolus Partner to Improve ICS Supply Chain Security
Industrial Defender’s integration with the aDolus FACT™ platform ensures updates are valid, tamper-free, and safe to install aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software...
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Wrapping Up 2020 with Dale Peterson
Wrapping up my year on December 31, I was delighted to join ICS cybersecurity luminary Dale Peterson for his December: ICS Security Month in Review episode of the Unsolicited Response...
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Three Things the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Can Teach Us
Just in case you missed it, a software supply chain attack on the US government and industries is consuming the waking hours of everyone involved in cyber security this week. The attack...
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aDolus Wins Top Tech Innovation Contest, New Ventures BC 2020
aDolus Technology Inc. bested 240 of BC’s most innovative tech startups, winning the New Ventures contest in Canada’s #1 startup ecosystem, boasting over 10,000 tech companies. aDolus...
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ReFirm Labs and aDolus Partner to Improve IoT Supply Chain Security
aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software intelligence for critical infrastructure, and ReFirm Labs, a provider of the industry’s first proactive IoT and firmware security...
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aDolus Technology Selected as One of 2020’s Top 10 Startups
NANAIMO, BC, CANADA, August 27, 2020: aDolus Technology Inc., a global authority on software intelligence for critical infrastructure, has today announced that New Ventures BC has selected...
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Bayshore Networks and aDolus Forge Supply Chain Security Partnership
The aDolus FACT™ platform provides independent software update validation to ensure safe upgrades and a more secure supply chain NANAIMO, BC, CANADA, July 22, 2020 --aDolus Technology Inc.
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Don’t Judge an Ebook by Its Cover
Interesting times lead to interesting opportunities. The current pandemic is proving no exception, but, sadly, it’s an opportunity for some attackers who have laid a rather cunning trap. As...
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3 Month Reprieve for Utilities on Cybersecurity Supply Chain Standards
Earlier this month, as the coronavirus accelerated its alarming sprint across North America, NERC requested that FERC defer a number of looming deadlines for Reliability Standards....
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Windows 10 Certificate Validation Bug Exposes a Fundamental Weakness
The announcement Tuesday from the NSA about the new cryptographic vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system sent ripples of shock through our entire community. In case you...
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Podcast: Where Do Your Bits Really Come From?
Earlier this year I attended the Public Safety Canada Industrial Control System Security symposium in Charlottetown, PEI (FYI the PSC ICS events are outstanding - worth attending, even if...
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Will the DoD’s CMMC Encourage Bad Password Habits?
Last Wednesday (September 11), the U.S. Department of Defense released a draft of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) for public comment. The idea is for the DoD to...
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When the Security Researchers Come Knocking, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Our own Jonathan Butts and Billy Rios were interviewed this month on the CBS Morning News about their research showing that medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps can be hacked...
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Who Infected Schneider Electrics’ Thumbdrive?
On 24 August 2018 Schneider Electric issued a security notification alerting users that the Communications and Battery Monitoring devices for their Conext Solar Energy Monitoring Systems...
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Building (or Losing) Trust in our Software Supply Chain
Back in 2014, when I was managing Tofino Security, I became very interested in the Dragonfly attacks against industrial control systems (ICS). I was particularly fascinated with the ways...
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