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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. But once inside a network, the humans take over.

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AWS acquires encrypted comms platform Wickr to support shift to hybrid work environments

SC Magazine

In a move that could bring some relief to organizations looking to secure their cloud migrations, Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that it had acquired Wickr, provider of secure end-to-end encryption and communications platform. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images).

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SHARED INTEL: How NTA/NDR systems get to ‘ground truth’ of cyber attacks, unauthorized traffic

The Last Watchdog

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. But ExtraHop noticed that the tool also opening encrypted connections to vendor-owned cloud storage, a major HIPAA violation. Mukerji: Cloud is here to stay.

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Ready to move to the cloud? Here’s what you need to do when vetting service providers

SC Magazine

When I move to a new cloud vendor I always ask: how can we reduce our footprint? That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said. With the cloud, there are many opportunities that weren’t available to us before.”.

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Top 7 SaaS Security Gaps for SMBs

Spinone

Depending on the industry and the use cases required, file storage can include various file types from documents, media, spreadsheets, PDFs, vendor specific files, network shares, etc. Files that are stored locally that get encrypted with ransomware are synchronized up to public cloud storage.

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Risks of Relying on a Sole Cloud Service Provider

Spinone

In fact, the 3-2-1 rule that is often cited with backup best practices states that you need (3) copies of your backups on at least (2) different kinds of media, with (1) stored offsite. Encrypting production data both in-flight and at-rest is essential to enforcing data security in the cloud. Offers Ransomware Protection.

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

Spinone

In 2019, there has been an uptick in coordinated ransomware attacks that have targeted hospitals, schools, media outlets, and public offices. This is due to the additional complexity that housing data in the cloud brings to your infrastructure. What are the underlying causes of a data breach?