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CISA's Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture: Where it succeeds and where it falls short

CSO Magazine

President Biden’s Executive Order 14028 “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” directed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to create a cloud-security technical reference architecture (RA ) in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ).

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Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO

SC Magazine

It’s crucial to understanding the fitness of the CSP to assess future risk. Security risk review. The General Services Administration has developed the Federal Risk and Management program to help manage the NIST controls. Ensuring clean connectivity will reduce risk so there’s less of a chance for outages.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Dealing with the return of computing workloads to on-premises datacenters

The Last Watchdog

A cloud migration backlash, of sorts, is playing out. Related: Guidance for adding ZTNA to cloud platforms Many companies, indeed, are shifting to cloud-hosted IT infrastructure, and beyond that, to containerization and serverless architectures.

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

The Last Watchdog

LW: What obstacles are companies running into with cloud migration? Tamir: The problem is that companies have thousands of applications and systems that they need to migrate to the cloud, including older applications and homegrown applications. This becomes a barrier to cloud migration.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Her work centered on helping aerospace manufacturers manage the convergence of cyber risk across their increasingly complex business ecosystem, including IT, OT and connected products. During her first few years at Booz Allen, she supported technology, innovation and risk analysis initiatives across U.S. government clients.

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

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A zero-trust framework is vital to any cloud migration path. 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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GUEST ESSAY: The key to a successful cloud migration – embrace a security-first strategy

The Last Watchdog

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud alone is set to top $500 billion in 2022 – a 20% growth over last year. But often overlooked in the migration process is the significance of a company’s embedded security measures.