cloud
Google rebrands Google Research as Google AI and acquires Velostrata
Google, a business subsidiary of Alphabet Inc has made a bold move early this week by re-branding its entire Google Research division as Google AI. Industry analysts feel that the move specifies Google’s future vision of aggressively pursuing the developments in the ever-evolving field of Artificial Intelligence. In the next few years, Google has announced […]
Zero-Day in the Cloud – Say It Ain’t So
This post was originally published here by Steve Armstrong. Zero-day vulnerabilities are computer or software security gaps that are unknown to the public – particularly to parties who would like to close said gaps, like the vendors of vulnerable software. To many in the infosec community, the term “zero-day” is synonymous with the patching or updating […]
Free Cloud Storage in 2017: Top Five Providers with Large Free Service Plans
Finding a cloud storage provider is easy, but finding one with a lot of free storage space and all the features you require is much more difficult. Cloudwards.net has put together a guide on finding the best cloud storage providers with plenty of free space for that very reason, so you won’t have to traverse the cloud […]
CASBs and Education’s Flight to the Cloud
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Cloud is becoming an integral part of modern organizations seeking productivity and flexibility. For higher education, cloud enables online course creation, dynamic collaboration on research documents, and more. As many cloud services like G Suite are discounted or given to educational institutions for free, adoption is made even simpler. However, across the […]
Private App Cloud Migration Requires CASB
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) have gotten a lot of adoption over the past couple of years, with Gartner recently publishing their first Magic Quadrant for CASBs. Since Cloud is in the name, most organizations think of CASB when trying to achieve their security and compliance goals for public SaaS […]
Cloud Security Alliance releases newly formulated security practices for Startups
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a world-leading organization dedicated to raising awareness on cloud security has released newly formulated guidelines for Startups to comply with CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance. The security practices were released to guide cloud customers, potential customers and cloud service providers on the latest obligations budding from the European General […]
Amazon Web Services offers new Cloud Security feature to vulnerable S3 customers
From early this year, they have been multiple high profile incidents which said that AWS customers have inadvertently left data unprotected on S3 servers making it easy to access for hackers. For instance, a well known hacking group was found accessing unprotected data of Accenture and Dow Jones from Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. Obviously, such […]
Report says Cloud Migration is complicating Cloud Security in Hybrid Cloud Environments!
AlgoSec which offers firewall policy management software has released a survey report which says that one-third of organizations are planning to gain benefits from cloud infrastructure over the next 12-18 months, provided they can somehow mitigate migration challenges to the fullest including managing security policies and broken applications. The survey concluded that over 49% of […]
Top 5 Cloud Security related Data Breaches!
The Year 2017 has so far witnessed some data slip-ups from the worlds top cloud storage providers and the details are as follows- Accenture- World’s first Cyber Resilience startup UpGuard discovered in its Cyber Risk survey that Accenture left at least 4 AWS S3 storage buckets unsecured. And as a result of this flaw, the […]
IBM plans to create Cloud Security awareness among Startups
International Business Machines Corporation, shortly known as IBM is all set to create cloud security awareness among small and medium businesses through its different co-innovation activities. Initially, the IT major wants to implement its strategy in India and then spread its objective to other countries. Remember, IBM has already offered such awareness initiatives to startups […]
