Post Syndicated from Rapid7 original https://blog.rapid7.com/2022/09/14/security-nation-chris-levendis-and-lisa-olson-on-cloud-cves/

In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Chris Levendis of MITRE and Lisa Olson of Microsoft about assigning CVE IDs for vulnerabilities affecting cloud solutions. They recount their experiences working with the CVE board to establish guidelines for disclosing cloud vulnerabilities and talk through some of the challenges in understanding responsibility for mitigating and managing risks in the cloud.

Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod and Jen talk about a helpful new feature in iOS 16 that allows users to tell their devices to forget certain Wi-Fi networks, as well as RFC 9293, the newly dropped transmission control protocol (TCP) that obsoletes RFC 793.

Chris Levendis

Chris Levendis is a Principal Systems Engineer in the Cybersecurity Operations & Integration department in the Center for Securing the Homeland at MITRE. He has supported various DHS missions since 2004, including infrastructure protection and cybersecurity. Currently, in support of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Chris leads the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute’s (HSSEDI) work for Threat Hunting, Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), and Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC).  

Lisa Olson

Lisa Olson has been in the business of developing technology and products to manage complex networks and network devices since the 1980s. She started her career working as a software engineer for IBM and has gone on to management positions for large companies including Boeing and Jupiter/Media Metrix.

For the last 10 years, Lisa has immersed herself in cybersecurity by managing Microsoft’s monthly Security Update releases (aka Patch Tuesday). Under her leadership, Patch Tuesday has undergone digital transformation from a primarily manual labor-intensive production of security bulletins for a relatively small number of products, to a highly automated all-electronic environment supporting hundreds of products including Microsoft’s Azure via a database and APIs. The Security Update Guide is published by Lisa’s team every month and provides information about Microsoft’s CVE list.

Show notes

Interview links

• Check out the CVE blog post on handling cloud vulnerabilities.
• Read up on the rules for assigning CVEs.
• See an example cloud CVE affecting Microsoft Azure.
• Read the Microsoft Security Response Center’s blog post on cloud vulnerabilities.

Rapid Rundown links

• Check out Dominic White’s tweet on iOS remembered networks.
• Read the update on the recently released RFC 9293.

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