Category: Cloud security

July 27, 2021

As cloud adoption accelerates and the scale of cloud environments grows, engineering and security teams say that risks—and the costs of addressing them—are increasing. The findings are part of the State of Cloud Security 2021 survey conducted by Fugue and […]

July 26, 2021

According to Aqua Security’s 2021 Cloud Native Security Practitioner study, only 3% recognize that a container, in and of itself, is not a security boundary, indicating that the default security capabilities of containers are overestimated. This result is especially alarming […]

July 21, 2021

The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, […]

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

During the last decade, lots of business owners have talked about cloud migration and transformation, as well as cloud security. With Gartner’s most recent forecast of an 18.4% increase in worldwide public spending on cloud services in 2021, totaling almost […]

June 24, 2021

Virtually all businesses experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months, a new survey has claimed. Conducted by IDC on behalf of cloud infrastructure security company, Ermetic, the survey discovered that 98% of the surveyed companies […]

June 22, 2021

Cloud security is critically important for organizations across the globe as adoption of cloud infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid clip. The shift toward the cloud is unstoppable, and inevitably, it’s driving soaring demand for skilled security professionals. Demand […]

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 10, 2021

Two years ago, a group of tech companies introduced a new roadmap for cloud computing security. Confidential computing “uses hardware-based techniques to isolate data, specific functions, or an entire application from the operating system, hypervisor or virtual machine manager, and […]

June 8, 2021

Cloud computing introduced a paradigm shift in how companies operated, maintained and spent on IT. Through its varied service models (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), it offers companies the ability to spin up their infrastructure in minutes, auto scale on demand, […]