cybersecurity
Holiday shopping season fraud stats revealed
There’s a 1% decrease in suspected online retail fraud worldwide during the start of the 2020 holiday shopping season compared to the same period in 2019, a 59% increase …
Growth of cloud-native apps and containerization to define 2021
Scality announced its data storage predictions for 2021, focusing on the rapid growth rate of cloud-native apps and containerization. According to IDC, by 2023, over 500 …
Consumers would like to view internet connectivity as a trusted utility
CSPs are well positioned to capture a clearly defined opportunity by meeting their customers’ unmet need for protection against growing threats, such as phishing and malware, …
Open source vulnerabilities go undetected for over four years
For its annual State of the Octoverse report, GitHub has analyzed over 45,000 active code directories to provide insight into open source security (vulnerabilities) and …
Raising defenses against ransomware in healthcare
More than half a decade has passed since ransomware-wielding attackers started focusing on healthcare providers. Despite some initial misgivings about targeting life-saving …
How to reduce the risk of third-party SaaS apps
Third-party SaaS apps (and extensions) can significantly extend the functionality and capabilities of an organization’s public cloud environment, but they can also …
The challenges of keeping a strong cloud security posture
It’s simple – you can’t secure what you can’t see or don’t know about. In this interview, Badri Raghunathan, Director of Product Management for Container and Serverless …
Face recognition software making progress at recognizing masked faces
A study of face recognition technology created after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that some software developers have made demonstrable progress at recognizing …
Cloud-native benefits stifled by critical security and networking issues
While most organizations today are using cloud-native apps, Kubernetes and microservices, they struggle to secure and connect the complex environments resulting from them, a …
The three stages of security risk reprioritization
What began as a two-week remote working environment, due to COVID-19 has now stretched past the nine-month mark for many. The impact of telework on organizations can be felt …
Cloud native security: A maturing and expanding arena
At the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020, I had the opportunity to take part in a keynote panel with a number of other cloud native security practitioners. We …
IT leaders on 2021 opportunities, challenges and key technology trends
IEEE released the results of a survey of CIOs and CTOs in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil regarding the most important technologies for 2021 overall, the impact of the …