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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. Sure, you need state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology like firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection systems to keep cybercriminals on the back foot.

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

eSecurity Planet

Apply the following strategies to mitigate DDoS attacks: Select a good cloud-based hosting: Choose a provider with large bandwidth and content delivery networks (CDN). Hide the origin web server’s IP and restrict access with a firewall. Skills gap relates to a scarcity of competent individuals with knowledge in cloud migration.

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Thales and Palo Alto Networks collaborate to offer mid-markets the enterprise protection

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The problem of the increasing threat landscape is equally reflected in the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report. A zero-trust framework is vital to any cloud migration path. As more companies move along the path toward digital transformation, the need for better security has never been more evident. Deploying the Zero Trust model.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

At the same time – in fact, as a direct result of data’s central importance – more adversaries are working harder and finding more nefarious ways to steal or otherwise compromise your data. As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record.

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Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI

Security Boulevard

Every digital resilience project needs to consider security breach prevention and recovery by applying digital governance across the organization for a rapid response to disruptions. Preventing security-related disruptions encompasses adopting zero trust policies and not just relying on protecting the perimeter with firewalls. .

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

While the cloud has matured greatly and public cloud vendors have drastically improved security measures , technologies, services, and the overall security infrastructure, cloud security is certainly still one of the major concerns with cloud infrastructure of all types.

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