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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

Companies are being compelled to embrace digital transformation, or DX , if for no other reason than the fear of being left behind as competitors leverage microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure to spin-up software innovation at high velocity. A core security challenge confronts just about every company today.

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NEW TECH: Silverfort helps companies carry out smarter human and machine authentications

The Last Watchdog

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet.

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Thales and Palo Alto Networks collaborate to offer mid-markets the enterprise protection

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As more companies move along the path toward digital transformation, the need for better security has never been more evident. Through three technology integrations, businesses will gain access to their internal resources, protected by a robust, highly resilient security architecture. Deploying the Zero Trust model.

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MY TAKE: Why companies had better start taking the security pitfalls of API proliferation seriously

The Last Watchdog

Over the past year, I’ve had several deep conversations parsing how APIs have emerged as a two-edged sword: APIs accelerate digital transformation, but they also vastly expand the attack surface of modern business networks. Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment.

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Top of Mind Security Insights from In-Person Interactions

Cisco Security

Hybrid work is here to stay, hybrid and complex architectures will continue to be a reality for most organizations and that has dramatically expanded the threat surface. Digital transformation and Zero Trust . As long as cyber criminals continue seeking to breach our privacy and data, these rules help hold us accountable. .

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Microsoft Accidentally Exposes 38TB of Sensitive Data

SecureWorld News

Users were directed to download these models from an Azure Storage URL; however, the misconfigured URL granted unauthorized access to the entire storage account, thus exposing vast amounts of additional private data. After being alerted by Wiz, Microsoft revoked the SAS token , effectively blocking external access to the storage account.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. Meanwhile, the best security tooling money can was never designed to deal with this phenomenon.

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