Category: Cloud security

February 21, 2020

While most large enterprises are moving to the cloud in some form, the path is never as direct as chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) might like it to be. Most come to terms with the […]

February 17, 2020

Security operations teams face an exponentially growing volume of security event data while resources mostly remain static. One great way to help solve issues in this space is automation. Despite the recognized benefits of security automation, however, few organizations leverage […]

February 5, 2020

In the age of cloud computing where infrastructure needs to be extended or deployed rapidly to meet ever-changing organizational needs, the configuration of new servers and nodes is completely automated. This is done using machine-readable definition files, or templates, as […]

January 28, 2020

The rapid growth of the cloud has left organisations with significant gaps into the visibility of the data they keep there, putting them at risk of data loss and regulatory non-compliance, according to a report published by McAfee. In its […]

January 24, 2020

ASB, Microsoft says, was designed to improve the consistency of security documentation for Azure services by creating a framework containing all recommendations for Azure services, in the same format. ASB is meant to help organizations increase the overall security and […]

January 20, 2020

The lack of care being taken to correctly configure cloud environments has once again been highlighted by two serious data leaks in the UK caused by leaking Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket databases. As a default setting, Amazon S3 […]

January 16, 2020

Cybersecurity is an important aspect and it becomes more precarious when organisations are flocking to the cloud to deploy mission-critical apps. Data is the new oil of the 21st century. The opportunity that the cloud presents also brings in challenges […]

December 20, 2019

An exposed database was discovered leaking the personal information of 26,000 North American Honda owners and their vehicles. The Elasticsearch database in question is owned by the American Honda Motor Co., a North American subsidiary of the Honda Motor Co. […]

December 19, 2019

When it comes to facing insider threats, many enterprises seem to be suffering from a type of organizational cognitive dissonance – as in, they hold two, seemingly contradictory beliefs when it comes to the cloud and the collaboration tools that […]

December 12, 2019

IBM Security announced it is extending its artificial intelligence (AI) technology originally developed to protect users in the financial services industry, to clients in all industries via the company’s identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) offering. IBM Cloud Identity now features AI-based adaptive access […]