cloud security

CISO-level tips for securing corporate data in the cloud
The presence of each third-party application increases the potential for attacks, particularly when end users install them without proper oversight or approval. IT security …

Inadequate tools leave AppSec fighting an uphill battle for cloud security
AppSec teams are stuck in a catch-up cycle, unable to keep up with the increasingly rapid, agile dev pace, and playing security defense via an endless and unproductive …

Tython: Open-source Security as Code framework and SDK
Development teams utilize automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to facilitate rapid and frequent changes to their cloud-native architectures. Security teams must …

Using just-in-time access to reduce cloud security risk
Excessive privileges are a continuing headache for security professionals. As more organizations migrate assets to the cloud, users with excessive permissions can expand the …

How CISOs navigate security and compliance in a multi-cloud world
Due to the increasing importance of multi-cloud and the intricate nature of cloud infrastructure, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the various cloud workloads …

Organizations face an uphill battle to keep their sensitive data secure
On average, organizations store 61% of their sensitive data in the cloud, and most have experienced at least one cybersecurity breach (90%), threat (89%) and/or theft of data …

Exchange Online will soon start blocking emails from old, vulnerable on-prem servers
Slowly but surely, Microsoft aims to make it impossible for unsupported and/or unpatched on-prem Microsoft Exchange servers to use the company’s Exchange Online hosted …

How healthcare CISOs can automate cloud security controls
Cloud environments provide many benefits, primarily involving their ease of scalability and resilience. Those qualities exist because of automation and the easy and …

Google Cloud Platform allows data exfiltration without a (forensic) trace
Attackers can exfiltrate company data stored in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) storage buckets without leaving obvious forensic traces of the malicious activity in GCP’s …

Application and cloud security is a shared responsibility
Cloud environments and application connectivity have become a critical part of many organizations’ digital transformation initiatives. In fact, nearly 40% of North American …

Amazon S3 to apply security best practices for all new buckets
Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets. For new buckets created after this date, S3 Block Public Access will …

Thousands of unpatched VMware ESXi servers hit by ransomware via old bug (CVE-2021-21974)
Late last week, unknown attackers launched a widespread ransomware attack hitting VMware ESXi hypervisors via CVE-2021-21974, an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows …
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