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2019 Recap: A Year to Remember

McAfee

A recent ISACA survey found only 18% of respondents said they believed the cybersecurity skills gap will be mostly or entirely filled during the upcoming decade, while 81% said companies aren’t investing enough in the people skills needed to navigate technological change. A Strong Presence at RSA. Threat Predictions for the Year Ahead.

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. Luckily, Thompson left an easy trail for the FBI to follow and affect her arrest in August 2019. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

CSP collaboration improves the security environment where there’s a need to mitigate the emerging risks quickly and comprehensively. According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud.

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Strong Encryption Explained: 6 Encryption Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) currently promotes AES as a strong encryption standard but also acknowledges that quantum computing likely renders AES vulnerable sometime in the next 20 years. For example, shorter keys protect less sensitive data on a laptop and longer keys protect sensitive data stored on a server.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

eSecurity Planet

SASE provides an edge security solution that addresses these challenges without the bottlenecks of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions. In practice, various SASE vendors will emphasize their specialty, such as networking or cloud access, in their definition of the technology to provide their solution with advantages.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0 Since Versa Unified SASE is the only top SASE vendor that offers an option for locally installed SASE control software, buyers with strong security needs (military, biotech, etc.) Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 must strongly consider this product.

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Security is Shifting to a Unified Cloud Edge

McAfee

And those cloud services are hosting an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data—according to our 2019 Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, the number of files with sensitive data shared in the cloud has increased 53% year over year. Figure 1: Simplified architecture for Unified Cloud Edge.