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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. And shared storage breaches are by no means limited to Amazon customers.

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

The Last Watchdog

LW: Catastrophic infrastructure and supply chain breaches, not to mention spy balloons and Tik Tok exploits, have grabbed regulators’ attention. How does your main theme of tie in?

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Average Cost of a Data Breach: $3.86 Million

Dark Reading

New IBM study shows that security system complexity and cloud migration can amplify breach costs.

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Automated Penetration Testing vs. Manual Penetration Testing

Appknox

The 'new normal' has expanded the market for digital transformation initiatives and cloud migration strategies. Many businesses are running remotely as a result of the latest COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cloud-to-Cloud Migration: How to Detect Security Issues

Spinone

Unfortunately, it has also introduced some new security concerns and an increase in the number of data breaches that occur each year. The main reason for this is that cloud services make it much easier to access and share data from outside the organization. BYOD Cloud App Security – How Big is the Problem?

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The Cost of Data Breach – Calculate the ROI of Backup and Disaster Recovery Software

Spinone

This can include the ever-growing threat of malware such as ransomware and other cybersecurity threats, or it could be the threat posed each and every day from end-users who may mistakenly delete business-critical data. Attackers may infiltrate the perimeter defenses of your infrastructure and gain unauthorized access to your data.

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From Google Cloud Blog: “Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data…

Anton on Security

Similarly, recent attention (such as due to GDPR or CCPA) paid to personally identifiable information has led to cases where personal data was discovered in unexpected places. Furthermore, the accelerating pace of cloud migrations means that there are more cases of personal data being uploaded to the public cloud.