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

The Last Watchdog

Riccardi: SMBs face challenges when dealing with cybersecurity implications of software-enabled, cloud-based operations due to financial and skill limitations. Cyber risks from third-party vendors further complicate the situation. Riccardi: Basic cyber hygiene is 90 percent of what cybersecurity is all about.

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

The Last Watchdog

At RSA Conference 2022 , which opened today in San Francisco, new security frameworks and advanced, cloud-centric security technologies will be in the spotlight. 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.

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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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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. Diane Brown.

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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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CASB: Decisive Role of Cloud Access Security Brokers

Spinone

The importance of Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) grows as businesses rapidly adopt new cloud collaboration technologies and platforms. Cloud is approaching 20% penetration of workloads which is an important inflection point in technology.

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