Tag: cloud security

June 26, 2024

Thales research comes at a time when cloud security is under heightened scrutiny. Leading cloud providers, such as Microsoft and others, have been targeted by sophisticated threat groups targeting companies, government agencies and other organizations that store data in the […]

June 25, 2024

Cybersecurity provider Orca has added new source code posture management capabilities to its cloud security offering by adding support for popular source code management (SCM) platforms. The new capabilities are designed to round out Orca’s cloud security offering by adding […]

June 20, 2024

Businesses’ use of numerous cloud services coupled with rapid software development and delivery practices is creating an explosion in potential attack surfaces — including myriad APIs, applications and data across multiple locations. Attackers are taking advantage, with eight out of […]

June 17, 2024

Cloud security strikes fear into the heart of CISOs and risk practitioners alike. For years there were alarmist warnings “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”, “once it’s in the cloud it’s no longer yours”, “you don’t know where your […]

June 13, 2024

More and more, we’re seeing businesses shift operations to the cloud. While the pandemic accelerated migration rates as companies sought to better support remote workers, the cloud had been gaining popularity for years thanks to its agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency […]

June 11, 2024

As businesses increasingly migrate to the cloud, chief information security officers (CISOs) face numerous critical challenges in ensuring robust cloud security. Don’t believe me? Experts highlighted this at the recent Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. Gartner projects a significant […]

June 10, 2024

Fortinet has reached an agreement to buy cloud security company Lacework for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2015, Lacework is known for its cloud-based machine learning, AI and automation technology that lets customers manage and secure cloud workflows. Its security […]

June 5, 2024

The cloud will become a cornerstone of enterprise operations as IDC estimates that by 2025, there will be over 750 million cloud-native applications globally. Additionally, over 90% of organizations anticipate employing a multi-cloud approach over the next few years. Considering […]

June 4, 2024

Tenable Research has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure service tags that “allows an attacker to bypass firewall rules … by forging requests from trusted services.” “The vulnerability was discovered initially in the Azure Application Insights service, but we and […]

May 15, 2024

IBM and Palo Alto Networks announced a wide-reaching partnership to mix and match security technology between the vendors. The marriage includes the sale of Big Blue’s QRadar security intelligence platform to Palo Alto. IBM and Palo Alto aim to help […]

May 13, 2024

The Biden administration plans to pursue a liability framework to hold the software industry accountable for insecure software, according to administration officials and documents released by the Office of the National Cyber Director this week. Federal officials said they have […]

May 7, 2024

The recent discourse around the security of cloud computing in the banking sector, highlighted by Nicholas Fearn’s piece in the Financial Times, paints a somewhat grim picture of the cybersecurity landscape when it comes to banks moving to cloud computing. […]

May 2, 2024

Why your business needs a cloud-based print management solution If your business isn’t using a cloud-based print management solution, you’re missing out on a range of efficiency, environmental and security benefits. There are a number of factors driving the move […]

April 25, 2024

As we near the halfway point of the year, organizations are under tremendous pressure to grow businesses across all industries. It’s no secret: bottom lines must rise and 2024 has been earmarked as a pivotal year to revert to growth […]

April 18, 2024

Cisco has announced Hypershield, an AI-based capability of the company’s Security Cloud platform for hyperscalers. Hypershield is designed to defend cloud, data center, and distributed edge appliances from rapid vulnerability exploitation, according to Cisco. Patching today’s sprawling applications has become […]

April 17, 2024

Security researchers warn that certain commands executed in the AWS and Google Cloud command-line interfaces (CLIs) will return credentials and other secrets stored in environment variables as part of the standard output. If such commands are executed as part of […]

April 11, 2024

IBM Cloud and Fortinet have rolled out a virtual appliance that promises to protect enterprise traffic and data traversing cloud networks. The Fortinet Virtual FortiGate Security Appliance (vFSA) on IBM Cloud extends the security capabilities of FortiGate next-generation firewalls (NGFW) […]

April 10, 2024

On March 30, the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released its review of the July 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion by the Chinese state group Storm-0558, blasting Microsoft for its shoddy security practices and saying the incident “was preventable […]

April 1, 2024

He’s been! World Backup Day, or March 31, is over for another year. This brazen PR sleigh ride, asking the people of the world to make one (1) backup of their data, is backed by some of our cloud backup […]

March 26, 2024

As organizations expand and increasingly invest in more cloud applications and services, their cloud footprint grows and often becomes more complex. That’s why it is critically important to regularly reevaluate the security of those cloud assets to ensure that everything […]