Category: Cloud security

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 […]

December 10, 2019

Organizations handling highly sensitive data belonging to U.S. residents are not doing enough to protect their customers’ personal information, as a recent discovery illustrates. A group of pen testers have found more than a quarter of a million applications for […]

December 9, 2019

More than nine out of 10 of US enterprises in the Dow Jones, Fortune 250 and 500, and S&P 100 have run into cloud migration problems when it comes to moving legacy business applications to the cloud, with over three […]

December 6, 2019

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, announced the Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK), the only credential for industry professionals […]

December 6, 2019

Names, addresses, phone numbers, call and text message records and account PINs were all caught up in a cloud misconfiguration. Hundreds of thousands of mobile phone bills for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers have been laid open to anyone with […]

December 5, 2019

Earlier this year, Google provided G Suite admins and users with a new 2FA option: one-time security codes based on security keys. Now it offers a new option to make them more secure: admins can limit their use to the […]

December 5, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its portfolio with three new services and capabilities meant to help organizations build and operate securely in the cloud. With the new Amazon Detective, customers can increase efficiency when investigating incidents across workloads. Currently […]