Open-Source Tool Creator of the Year by SANS Institute

Arctic Wolf Labs documents its Log4Shell Deep Scan Tool—which locates vulnerable Log4j code on hosts—and announces the tool won the SANS Difference Makers award; the post recounts the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) crisis, noting 29,338 unique adversarial scanning incidents across 807 customers in the first 47 days and that Log4Shell accounted for 11% of incident response cases over the following year, recommending the tool as a complement to network scanners.