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

The Last Watchdog

Cyber threats have steadily intensified each year since I began writing about privacy and cybersecurity for USA TODAY in 2004. These attacks sparked public realization that cyber threats can disrupt daily life, leading to anger against corporations, not just cybercriminals, if they failed to implement basic cybersecurity measures.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing.

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2024 Cybersecurity Industry Experts Predictions: Part 1

IT Security Guru

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for cybersecurity experts to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the next year has set in store for the security industry. In parallel, we are also seeing organisations migrate their entire corporate directory to the cloud, typically with platforms like Microsoft Entra ID.

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

CyberSecurity Insiders

HEAT attacks are used to deliver malware or to compromise credentials, that in many cases leads to ransomware attacks. With the abrupt move to remote working in 2020, every organization had to pivot to a work from an anywhere model and accelerate their migration to cloud-based applications.

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Explosion of Machine Identities Creating Cybersecurity ‘Debt’

Security Boulevard

Explosion of Machine Identities Creating Cybersecurity ‘Debt’. The build-up of cybersecurity debt. This has driven a buildup of identity-related cybersecurity ‘debt,’” according to the report from CyberArk based on a survey of 1,750 IT security decision makers. This has created a buildup of identity-related cybersecurity “debt.”

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Cybersecurity Culture: From Onboarding Training to Proactive Practice

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity today is about more than just having the right technical defenses. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, businesses should assess how they're fostering a culture of online security. Here's how organizations can create a cybersecurity culture from onboarding onward. Go beyond Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

This development has intensified the pressure on companies to fully engage in the “shared responsibility” model of cybersecurity, a topic in that will be in the limelight at RSA Conference 2022 next week in San Francisco. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.