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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Teeming threat landscape Security leaders’ key priority is reducing exposures to the cyber risks they know are multiplying. Compliance penalties, lawsuits, loss of intellectual property, theft of customer personal data, and reputational damage caused by poor cyber defenses are now top operational concerns.

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MY TAKE: CASBs help companies meet ‘shared responsibility’ for complex, rising cloud risks

The Last Watchdog

CASBs, a term coined by tech industry consultancy Gartner, first cropped about seven years ago to help organizations enforce security and governance policies as they commenced, in earnest, their march into the cloud. Still, the added complexities of cloud migration translated into fresh tiers of wide-open attack vectors.

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

The Last Watchdog

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. Unmanaged smartphones and laptops, misconfigured Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, unsecured Internet access present more of an enterprise risk than ever.

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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. I’ll keep watch.

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences. Cyber risks from third-party vendors further complicate the situation.