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Cloud environments provide many benefits, primarily involving their ease of scalability and resilience. Those qualities exist because of automation and the easy and straightforward way to leverage that to enhance a cloud environment. While that ease th…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. According to Crowdstrike researchers, 40 percent of the patched vulnerabilities are remote code execution flaws, down from 48 percent last month; 31 percent are elevation of privilege flaws, up from almost 16 percent […]
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While the administration may look to strengthen security against cyberattackers for cloud providers, like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, experts say the onus is on the customer.
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CISA this week announced it is seeking public input on draft guidance for securing cloud business applications.
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Following its annual Special Interest Group (SIG) election process, the PCI Security Standards Council has confirmed the winning SIG topic for 2023. The Council’s Participating Organizations voted to select “Scoping and Segmentation fo…
Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Despite the rapid evolution of what constitutes the users, assets, and connections, the fundamentals of networking security remain the same: block external threats, protect internal network communications, monitor the network for internal and external threats, and ensure that users only access authorized parts […]
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Businesses from all industries are aware of the benefits of cloud computing. Some organizations are just getting started with migration as part of digital transformation initiatives, while others are implementing sophisticated multi-cloud, hybrid strat…
HYAS researchers recently developed proof-of-concept (PoC) malware that leverages AI both to eliminate the need for command and control (C2) infrastructure and to generate new malware on the fly in order to evade detection algorithms. The malware, dubbed “BlackMamba,” is the latest example of exploits that can evade even the most sophisticated cybersecurity products. While […]
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Compare specialty vulnerability scanning tools for modern cloud, container, and data lake infrastructure.
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Spoiler alert: the obvious answer is not always the correct one! Migrating services, apps and data to the cloud is both promising and challenging. The advantages of scalability, flexibility, reduced operational costs and supporting a hybrid workforce can be eliminated by the challenges of cloud security and talent gap. Those two challenges are closely interrelated as it is demonstrated by numerous surveys. For example, the (ISC)² Cloud Security Report 2022 indicates that: 93% of organizations are moderately to extremely concerned about the massive skills shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals 57% admit this lack of staff expertise makes cloud compliance challenging…