April 29, 2024
Via: CSO OnlineFor all the flexibility and cost management upsides to hybrid/multicloud infrastructure, there is a major trade-off: Complexity can breed security risks. When an organization’s assets span multiple public – and private – clouds, it can be exceedingly difficult to achieve […]
April 23, 2024
Via: Dark ReadingWhile cloud security has certainly come a long way since the wild west days of early cloud adoption, the truth is that there’s a long way to go before most organizations today have truly matured their cloud security practices. And […]
February 27, 2024
Via: Security AffairsA joint advisory issued by cybersecurity agencies of Five Eyes (US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) warns that Russia-linked APT29 threat actors (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, BlueBravo, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes) have switched to targeting cloud […]
February 21, 2024
Via: The RegisterThe complexity facing businesses as they make the necessary transition to cloud-native applications and multi-cloud architectures keeps cloud teams firmly on the frontline when it comes to implementing security policies. The constant risks of misconfiguration and malicious attack demand that […]
January 18, 2024
Via: The RegisterReports suggest that forward-looking organisations are ditching legacy point-based cloud security offerings and replacing them with more efficient integrated platforms which slash management overheads while significantly improving the app security. Cybersecurity Insiders notes that, in the past, companies have typically […]
December 29, 2023
Via: TechRadarGoogle Cloud has patched a vulnerability that may have allowed malicious actors with access to a Kubernetes cluster to elevate their privileges and wreak havoc. “An attacker who has compromised the Fluent Bit logging container could combine that access with […]
December 13, 2023
Via: The RegisterIn China, clouds are a symbol of luck. See multiple layering of clouds in a blue sky can mean you are in line to receive eternal happiness. If only that was true in the complex world of IT, where multi-cloud […]
December 11, 2023
Via: The RegisterIn the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud – a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. But in our global business environment, there’s no single defining feature to aid classification. Multi-cloud environments in particular spawn a lot of […]
December 7, 2023
Via: The RegisterAustralia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose. The three clouds were discussed on Monday by Andrew Shearer, Australia’s director-general […]
November 3, 2023
Via: Dark ReadingOracle now requires multifactor authentication on all instances within its cloud environment, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Every new tenancy is created with MFA enabled by default for cloud administrators, Oracle said. The company also “seeded” all preexisting systems to have a […]
November 3, 2023
Via: Dark ReadingBusinesses value the availability, scalability, and reliability of the cloud. They recognize that cloud computing can enable data to flow freely to where it needs to be accessed and processed, providing a huge advantage for organizations that operate on a […]
October 26, 2023
Via: TechRadarFor a third of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) thinking about migrating their infrastructure to the cloud, security is not a strategic priority, new research has claimed. A new Amazon Web Services report surveying more than 800 C-suite executives, vice […]
October 24, 2023
Via: The RegisterThe job of the cyber security professional is never easy, and it gets progressively harder with the movement of sensitive data and applications across the multiple different on and off premise systems that make up modern hybrid cloud environments. That’s […]
October 4, 2023
Via: TechRadarMicrosoft has officially unveiled the next generation of OneDrive, which is set to bring the cloud storage solution more closely in line with the rest of the company’s offerings, including Microsoft 365 apps like Teams and Outlook. The company is […]
September 18, 2023
Via: TechRadarOf all the vulnerabilities an organization’s system has, the majority sit within its cloud environment, a new report from cybersecurity researchers Unit 42, part of Palo Alto Networks, has found. As per the report, four in five (80%) of all […]
September 14, 2023
Via: Help Net SecurityLacework and Snowflake announced an expanded partnership that advances the future of cloud infrastructure and further automates cloud security at scale. The extended partnership empowers security teams with direct access to their Lacework cloud security data through Snowflake’s secure data […]
September 13, 2023
Via: Help Net SecurityCisco has unveiled Cisco Secure Application (previously Security Insights for Cloud Native Application Observability) on the Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform, enabling organizations to bring together application and security teams to securely develop and deploy applications. The latest release of Cisco […]
September 12, 2023
Via: Help Net SecurityNetskope has unveiled that its existing strategic alliance with Deloitte has expanded with the addition of Netskope to the Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) by Deloitte platform. The new Netskope module on MXDR by Deloitte will include advanced cloud […]
August 9, 2023
Via: The Hacker NewsExposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized […]
August 2, 2023
Via: The Hacker NewsCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new post-exploitation technique in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) to be run as a remote access trojan on Windows and Linux environments “The SSM agent, a legitimate […]