Category: Cloud Security

July 27, 2021

The 2021 Cloud Security Report, sponsored by (ISC)2, explores current cloud security trends and challenges, how organizations are responding to security threats in the cloud and reveals tools and best practices organizations are considering. Based on a comprehensive survey of […]

July 22, 2021

The benefits of using a cloud-based management platform to monitor and configure industrial control systems (ICS) devices are obvious — efficiency, cost-savings and better diagnostics just for starters. But new research found critical vulnerabilities in these platforms that could be […]

July 21, 2021

Google Cloud unveiled three security products for governments to expand its public-sector business and shore up systems that are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Google’s new software offerings are based on a zero-trust framework and will help governments be in compliance […]

July 21, 2021

Kubernetes clusters are being attacked via misconfigured Argo Workflows instances, security researchers are warning. Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes – to speed up processing time for compute-intensive jobs like machine learning […]

July 20, 2021

In March 2021 Google Cloud announced a new offering called Risk Protection Program, which is designed to help its cloud customers reduce security risk and connect with Google’s insurer partners, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and Munich Re. The insurers […]

June 25, 2021

As a cloud architect, I am amazed that cloud security is still so hard. We’ve had identity access management (IAM) for more than a decade. Now we have deep encryption services, key management, and most recently, zero trust and secure […]

June 17, 2021

Experts from Gartner, Cloudian, and other industry watchers say the massive, yet relatively brief Fastly cloud outage shows some of the resilience of the cloud but also what is at stake if it breaks. On June 8, edge cloud platform […]

June 14, 2021

Security in the public cloud is based on the concept of shared responsibility: The largest cloud service providers deliver a secure, hyperscale environment, but it’s up to the customer to protect everything it puts into the cloud. This separation of […]

June 14, 2021

It was not that long ago that the network perimeter was considered the central focus of enterprise security. In today’s world, few rely on the perimeter as the primary means of defense. Still, most organizations now maintain perimeters for their […]

June 10, 2021

Cloud adoption has accelerated in the past year as organizations scrambled to support a remote workforce. Despite this rapid adoption and growth, companies often misunderstand a key cloud concept: the shared responsibility model (SRM). Many business leaders still ask, “Is […]