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    Partnership between Balwurk and Quasinfalível

    We are proud to announce our partnership with Quasinfalível, a company specialized in helping organizations achieve compliance with industry best practices, including ISO standards, Agile methodologies, and the CMMI model. This strategic alliance seamlessly blends Quasinfalível’s deep expertise in process and compliance…

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    NIS2 e DORA

    Summary In summary, this article explains two regulations from the European Union, The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and NIS 2  Directive.  DORA focuses on enhancing the digital resilience of financial entities, mandating robust risk management, system testing, and third-party…

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    The Critical Role of Business Continuity Management to Ensure Resilience

    Summary In summary, this article has the purpose to explain to the reader, the importance of Business Continuity Management (BCM) to ensure resilience. The article starts by explaining what a BCM is and the various concepts that it encompasses. With…

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    Application Security: A Zero Trust Approach

    Summary The summary underscores the principles and key components of the Zero Trust approach in cybersecurity. Beginning with the axiom "Never trust, Always verify," it explores benefits such as a proactive stance and enhanced visibility and control. It details the…

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    Partnership between Balwurk and IriusRisk

    We are delighted to announce that we have formalised our strategic partnership with IriusRisk. This will allow us to enrich our service portfolio and offer, strengthening our capacity for a fast and scalable response in providing Threat Modeling services by design and by…

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    CVE-2023-27168 – Unrestricted File Upload with Remote Code Execution

    Context During an authorised penetration testing assessment conducted on Xpand IT’s Write-Back software, Balwurk’s security team found multiple security vulnerabilities, first disclosed to the customer and then responsibly submitted to the MITRE CVE program. The discovered vulnerability allows attackers to…

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    Technical Spotlight – Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

    Context During an authorised penetration testing assessment of Xpand IT Write-Back software, Balwurk's security team found a vulnerability that allows an attacker to craft its own Write-Back commercial licenses, unlocking the software's full features without paying for it. What is…

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    CVE-2023-27172 – Weak JWT secret

    Context During an authorised penetration testing assessment conducted on Xpand IT's Write-Back software, Balwurk's security team found multiple security vulnerabilities, first disclosed to the customer and then responsibly submitted to the MITRE CVE program. Balwurk discovered that the JSON Web…

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    CVE-2023-27170 – Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

    During an authorised penetration testing assessment conducted on Xpand IT's Write-Back software, Balwurk's security team found multiple security vulnerabilities, first disclosed to the customer and then responsibly submitted to the MITRE CVE program. The discovered vulnerability allows an attacker to…

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    Partnership between Balwurk and Check Point

    Balwurk, a consultancy company dedicated to providing application security services, is moving steadily forward in its quest to deliver excellence in AppSec & Cloud Security. To achieve this goal, we are pleased to announce our recent partnership with Check Point…

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    CVE-2023-27169 – Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

    During an authorised penetration testing assessment of Xpand IT Write-Back software, Balwurk's security team found multiple security vulnerabilities, first disclosed to the customer and then responsibly submitted to the MITRE CVE program. The discovered vulnerability allows an attacker to retrieve…

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    Partnership between Balwurk and Synopsys

    We are proud to announce the recently formed partnership with Synopsys, a global leader in Application Security (AppSec). By combining their expertise, the two companies are dedicated to helping organizations establish trust in their software by taking a holistic approach…

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