CLOUD SECURITY
At Black Hat 2018, Cloud Security Comes to the Fore
This post was originally published here by Salim Hafid. Las Vegas, Nevada is an interesting town – add Black Hat attendees into the mix and you find yourself in some fascinating conversations about very real and pressing security issues facing every enterprise. Of note, cloud security was top of mind for every Security Architect, Engineer, […]
Cloud Security in 2018: What You Need to Know
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna . Cloud is the standard platform for performing work in 2018. Organizations are moving more of their applications to this new landscape every day. However, knowing how to secure SaaS apps like Office 365, IaaS offerings like AWS, and much more, can be a bit overwhelming – there are countless […]
How to avoid cyber threats from cloud security misconfigurations
Since last year there has N number of reports of user data being leaked from cloud platforms. For instance, in July last year, personal data of more than 198 million US voters was exposed all because of an S3 misconfiguration owned by data company Deep Root Analytics. If we dig deep into the history, many […]
Acquisition news for this Week
London based Email Security services provider Mimecast has made it official that it has acquired cybersecurity training and awareness platform ‘Ataata’ last week. The financial details of the deal are yet to be known. But the objective is clear- to allow Mimecast customers to measure cyber risk training effectiveness by adapting behavior observations into actionable […]
Google Engineers refuse to build Air Gap Cloud Security for US Military
News is out that Engineers from Google have refused to build customized cloud security applications for US Defense. And FYI, all this happened while Google is chasing the $10 billion JEDI contract of US Defense to choose a single cloud vendor to provide wholesome services to the Department of Defense (DoD) for up to 10 […]
Google assures utmost security on its Cloud Platform
Google has made it official at the Google Cloud Summit 2018 that it gives sheer importance to the security of the data stored by the users on its cloud platform. As privacy concerns are increasing, Google has issued the public statement in order to win trust among its customers and stay ahead of its competitors […]
Cloud Security Trailing Cloud App Adoption in 2018
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. In recent years, the cloud has attracted countless organizations with its promises of increased productivity, improved collaboration, and decreased IT overhead. As more and more companies migrate, more and more cloud-based tools arise. In its fourth cloud adoption report, Bitglass reveals the state of cloud in […]
Hospitals shy away from Cloud due to Security and HIPAA Compliance
According to a survey conducted by Datica, a cloud-based digital health platform, hospital CIOs prefer staying away from cloud due to reasons related to Security and HIPAA Compliance. The survey which included 175 healthcare IT professionals as respondents confirm that security concerns are making the heads of healthcare organizations deter cloud migrations. Only less than […]
CLOUD SECURITY CONCERNS GROW AS INCIDENTS RISE
This post was originally published here by (ISC)² Management. As investments in public cloud computing continue to grow, so do cloud-related security incidents. Over the past 12 months, 18 percent of organizations have experienced a cloud security incident, double the number reported in the previous 12-month period, according to a recent report. Not surprisingly, concerns over […]
AWS Access Keys rotation can boost Cloud Security
If an application is not hosted on EC2 instance, then it needs AWS access keys to be accessed. And also all 3rd party applications hosted on EC2 instance require Keys to be accessed. In both cases, the application owner must specify a policy for AWS Access Key rotation, which can be implanted via Command Line […]
