Tag: cloud security

August 25, 2022

Supply chain security has become top-of-mind for many leaders, as incident after incident has revealed supply chain vulnerabilities that expose significant organizational risk. Security challenges like Log4j and SolarStorm have battered organizations of all sizes with risks they likely didn’t […]

August 19, 2022

According to new research from ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), 58% of organizations are consolidating or considering consolidating the number of security vendors they do business with. Security technology consolidation is bigger than simply winnowing down vendor […]

August 15, 2022

Called kCTF, the program was launched in 2020 to provide security researchers with the means to report vulnerabilities in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), for which they receive a flag. “All of GKE and its dependencies are in scope, but […]

July 27, 2022

NetApp released Spot Security, delivering a solution for continuous assessment and analysis of cloud security posture. Spot Security enables DevOps and SecOps teams to easily collaborate to identify misconfigurations, reduce their potential attack surface, and ensure compliance. Spot Security’s agentless […]

July 21, 2022

60% of IT and security leaders are not confident in their organization’s ability to ensure secure cloud access, even as adoption continues to grow across a diverse range of cloud environments, according to research from the Ponemon Institute. The Global […]

June 28, 2022

Organizations traditionally have struggled to track vulnerabilities in public cloud platforms and services because of the lack of a common vulnerability enumeration (CVE) program like the one that MITRE maintains for publicly disclosed software security issues. A new community-based database […]

June 20, 2022

Aptum has announced a report which examines the complexities inherent in hybrid cloud environments and their implications on security, data governance, compliance and disaster recovery. In particular, it finds that while companies are convinced of the value of cloud computing, […]

June 16, 2022

A Thales report, conducted by 451 Research, reveals that 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud-based data breach or failed audit in the past 12 months, up 5% from the previous year, raising even greater concerns regarding to protecting sensitive […]

June 16, 2022

A “dangerous piece of functionality” has been discovered in Microsoft 365 suite that could be potentially abused by a malicious actor to ransom files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and launch attacks on cloud infrastructure. The cloud ransomware attack makes […]

May 27, 2022

Today’s modern companies are built on data, which now resides across countless cloud apps. Therefore preventing data loss is essential to your success. This is especially critical for mitigating against rising ransomware attacks — a threat that 57% of security […]

April 20, 2022

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday announced that it’s seeking public comment on a couple of guidance documents created as part of a project called Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA), whose goal is to help improve […]

April 12, 2022

The mass adoption of cloud infrastructure is fully justified by innumerable advantages. As a result, today, organizations’ most sensitive business applications, workloads, and data are in the cloud. Hackers, good and bad, have noticed that trend and effectively evolved their […]

March 18, 2022

Orca Security released a research report on public cloud security alert fatigue. The survey, held among over 800 IT professionals across five countries and ten industries found that 55% of respondents use three or more cloud providers and 57% have […]

January 10, 2022

For a growing number of organizations, IT environments encompass a blend of public cloud services, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure—with the latter becoming an ever-smaller portion of the mix. The past two years have seen a major uptick in the […]

January 10, 2022

It’s fascinating to take a step back and look at how “the cloud” developed over the last two decades. There has been a lot of innovation that has sparked a new wave of technologies – from the boom in serverless […]

January 7, 2022

The massive shift to a more distributed work environment and adoption of cloud services to support new business models over the past two years has impacted how enterprises assess cyber-risk and manage cloud vulnerabilities. Respondents to Dark Reading’s 2021 Strategic […]

December 28, 2021

In 2022, open banking will continue to gain market traction and acceptance in the U.S. as traditional banks and financial institutions compete on customer satisfaction and digital relevance. Unlike traditional banking where all customer data is controlled by the parent […]

December 20, 2021

In an era beset by hackers at every turn, it’s no small irony that the fastest growing security threat to business data might now be the self-inflicted wound of cloud service misconfiguration. In the cloud, a misconfiguration is any mistake […]

December 17, 2021

Fugue announced a cloud security platform that enables enterprises to establish centralized security visibility and governance over their cloud environments, while empowering individual business units with the flexibility they need to innovate and compete. Now, Fugue Organization Management operationalizes cloud […]

December 15, 2021

Cloud service providers (CSPs) have changed the way organizations of all sizes architect and deploy their IT environments. CSPs now make it possible for organizations to rapidly implement new technologies with greater levels of ease and scalability. As with any […]