Dispatches from Mission Control

For most people, compliance is stressful. Tracking down relevant paperwork, heavy workloads, deadlines that always seem too close, and the issue of “passing” an audit

The CISO’s role is not for the faint-hearted. In their hands and the hands of their team lies a massive responsibility – keeping the organization safe from security

The average security team is responsible for 165,633 cyber assets and is likely to have additional ghost assets lurking in their environments. Cyber asset identificat

People always tell you to get your head out of the clouds. In the case of today’s rapid migration towards cloud-based, software-defined, and everything-as-a-service

The need for comprehensive cybersecurity is the greatest it's ever been, with no signs of slowing down. We have a backlog problem. Security practitioners everywhere

We’ve reached a new milestone! Today, we’re excited to announce the official launch of JupiterOne’s Stellar Partner Program. Our company is founded on partnerships,

It's October, which means that, in addition to ghosts and goblins, it's also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! The Department of Homeland Security and the Natio

There's likely two reasons you've come across this blog: one, you've recently experienced a data breach or two, you want to prepare yourself in the event of a data br

Ghosts, zombies, and shadows are not just the stuff of spooky movies and Halloween haunts. These descriptors pop up across several asset management categories: “ghost

Summer 2022 has been prime time for awards and we are excited to announce four awards that JupiterOne and CEO and founder Erkang Zheng won.

The type of infrastructure your organization is leveraging (Cloud / Hybrid / On-Prem) may already be complex, or is heading in that direction. New products are added,

Security practitioners are no strangers to long, manual processes - especially the kind that are neglected for so long that they end up in the abyss of the backlog.

Regulatory compliance is a necessary headache for all sizable organizations. Aside from avoiding costly government fines, reaching SOC2 or CIS compliance is a quality

Do a quick Google search for the terms “security” and “safety,” and this is what you’ll get: Security: the state of being free from danger or threat Safety: the con

It’s March 2020. Mandatory stay-at-home orders have just gone into effect, and your organization is scrambling to nail down WFH policies while your IT team is tasked

The modern attack surface is an ever-evolving organism that requires constant vigilance. Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report states that the 13% jump in

Security practitioners are well versed in the concept of risk. The risk that’s currently on everyone’s minds? If you guessed the possibility of an impending recession

Amidst all of the learning and conversations I had in Vegas during Hacker Summer Camp, this quote wormed its way into my brain, bothering me like a scab over a wound

You’ve probably already heard about our recent partnership announcement with Splunk. (Wait, you haven’t? Well, check it out here!)

As organizations increase their reliance on the cloud to quickly and cost-effectively scale their digital operations, new security challenges arise. The convenience

JupiterOne was in incubation mode the last time everyone gathered in the sweltering heat of Vegas for #hackersummercamp, so here’s a recap of our experience!

While economists debate the technicalities of whether we are in a recession or not, the rest of us are left preparing ourselves for a downturn. With a wave of tech

At JupiterOne, we recognize the importance of building community — not just for the benefit of every cybersecurity professional out there, but for the organizations

How does one go from hating their computer science class to becoming an engineer anyways? That’s what one of our Senior Software Engineers, Samuel Poulton, did!

Cybersecurity is all about cyber assets, attack surface management, and understanding cyber asset context. When companies are hacked, be it through their software

The JupiterOne team kicked off the week at fwd:cloudsec where Field Security Director Jasmine Henry shared her latest research in the session “A Tacky Graph and

Our new partnership helps security teams combine cloud application and workload telemetry with cyber asset information from the entire tech stack to secure cloud

As innovative organizations scale their cloud environments, their attack surface expands in tandem. With the ways attackers operate today, the slightest, smallest gap

Summer conference season is always busy, but this year has been especially jam-packed with conference organizers cramming some of the biggest conferences in a few

When you can’t account for every single cyber asset in your digital environment and you want to conduct a security investigation or run a query to retrieve specific

The modern Chief Information Security Executive (CISO) is a vast, strategic, and expanding role. In a world where every organization competes on technology, the CISO

This week, we packed our green pants and sunglasses and headed over to Las Vegas for Cisco Live! and Splunk .conf22 to spend quality time with our partners, exhibit

In March we published The 2022 State of Cyber Assets Report to share how the proliferation of software-defined assets has changed the topology of attack surface

“The Human Element” was the theme of RSAC 2020, just as COVID-19 was making its way across the world and sending us into a global pandemic. This year, at RSAC 2022,

If these first few days of June are any indication of how the rest of the Summer of JupiterOne is going to go, I’d say we’re all in for a treat. After announcing a

It’s a big day for us here at JupiterOne. We just closed a $70M Series C funding round, achieving a $1B+ valuation, and welcomed new investors to the JupiterOne

Good news for JupiterOne and Splunk users! Our companies have joined forces to help make the cyber-world a safer place. This partnership gives our customers the

This summer is shaping up to be one of the busiest summers in years! We’re really excited to hang out with friends, old and new, at the upcoming events during what

Nothing in life is really linear. Reaching our goals often involves setbacks, changed plans, or evolving motives or values. In the moment, it can be hard to grasp you

Orphaned assets are a familiar story for every cybersecurity professional. Like something out of a horror movie, these legacy devices lurk neglected, forgotten, and

To paraphrase the tagline of Capital One’s credit card ads: What’s in your enterprise code? For many companies, the answer to that question has brought considerable

Reinvention is certainly not a new idea, especially for cybersecurity practitioners who are continuously challenged to adapt to new threats, an expanding attack

Organizations are transitioning to the cloud at a rate faster than ever. As your company’s cloud presence grows, so does the importance of your cloud security posture

“Know what you have, focus on what matters.” That’s our mantra. While that usually directs people toward taking stock of their cyber assets, it also means that you

A couple of months ago, we received the following email from AWS: Hello, You are receiving this email because AWS Lambda is making a change to the IAM policy

In the modern world, speed is everything. Customers demand constant innovation, while sudden market disruption makes agility essential for survival. To remain

There are two converging problems for security operations resulting in a big flaming dumpster fire - the expanding modern attack surface and an ever-growing backlog

Complete cyber asset inventory and visibility is foundational to any security program and strategy. We’ve written a number of pieces that share this sentiment

You’ve identified and collected all your cyber assets into one place. Now what? There are thousands, or even hundreds of thousands assets and potentially countless

As the scope of the cyber hygiene challenge outpaces the expert resources available, security teams are losing ground in the effort to protect their organization

Cybersecurity alert fatigue is an issue that is long overdue for a real solution. The average cybersecurity team is facing a backlog of 120,561 findings and alerts

Last month, Yvie Djieya wrote a blog post describing how JupiterOne’s security team manages “meeting evidence” as code. Yvie covered the difficulty of managing

Complete cyber asset inventory and visibility is foundational to any security program and strategy. We’ve written a number of pieces that share this sentiment

Digital transformation has created remarkable and irreversible growth in the cyber asset landscape. Each business shift towards digital workflows has yielded a steady

There’s nothing better than hiring an engineer that takes true pleasure in solving highly complex, brain-bending problems. That’s what we saw when we talked to Ben

Generating a software bill of materials (SBOM) is no small feat. In this post, I’ll walk through the steps I used to generate our SBOM when Sounil Yu joined the

In this post, I’m sharing my favorite resources to stay on top of all the things cloud, security, and self-improvement—because mental well-being is crucial to success

JupiterOne has a much broader definition of cyber assets than other security vendors, covering more than just IP addresses, devices, and internet facing-assets.

In the current microservice landscape, there are more than enough automation tools and infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions to make deployments swift and effortless

I started JupiterOne with two strong core beliefs that shape how to address the technical challenges I was facing and overall battles in the cybersecurity industry as