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What Is Cloud Security Management? Types & Strategies

eSecurity Planet

Cloud security management covers the following key processes meant to protect your organization’s cloud environment: Risk assessment: Begin by identifying the cloud services you use and assessing security and potential risks. Cloud database security focuses on protecting data stored in cloud databases.

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Cloud security issues refer to the threats, risks, and challenges in the cloud environment. Threats are active attacks that target system weaknesses. Risks include potential damage from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Challenges are gaps and barriers to attaining good security.

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How to shift into a new approach to cybersecurity asset management

CyberSecurity Insiders

A new approach to asset management is required to address the lack of visibility and security risks therein. Containerized applications are often used during a cloud migration to ensure the safety of the assets involved. They also come in handy with shared virtual machines and movement within the cloud.

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Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI

Security Boulevard

Complexity and cost of support, along with lack of scalability and security risk of outdated systems, inhibit flexibility as well as the ability to respond to disruption. . Many organizations have procedures and technology in place to protect PII in production environments, but non-production environments pose the highest security risk.

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Centrify Research Reveals 90% of Cyberattacks on Cloud Environments Involve Compromised Privileged Credentials

CyberSecurity Insiders

found that 65% of respondents saw attempted attacks on their cloud environments, and 80% of those participants’ cloud environments were successfully compromised. . . In addition, 19% cited maintaining compliance in the cloud as an ongoing issue. . The new study, which surveyed 150 IT decision makers across the U.S.,

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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

As their organizations migrate deeper into an intensively interconnected digital ecosystem, CISOs must deal with cyber attacks raining down on all fronts. What’s more, the rapid rise of a remote workforce, in the wake of Covid 19, has only served to accelerate cloud migration, as well as scale up the attendant network exposures.

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NEW TECH: Trend Micro flattens cyber risks — from software development to deployment

The Last Watchdog

Long before this awful pandemic hit us, cloud migration had attained strong momentum in the corporate sector. As Covid19 rages on, thousands of large to mid-sized enterprises are now slamming pedal to the metal on projects to switch over to cloud-based IT infrastructure. Threat actors haven’t missed a beat. I’ll keep watch.