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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 a class of cyber threats targeting web browsers as the attack vector and employs techniques to evade detection by multiple layers in current security stacks including firewalls, Secure Web Gateways, sandbox analysis, URL Reputation, and phishing detection. Menlo Security is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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MY TAKE: CASBs help companies meet ‘shared responsibility’ for complex, rising cloud risks

The Last Watchdog

Yet, somehow, catastrophic cloud breaches continued to occur, ala Capital One recently losing 100 million customer records kept in its Amazon Web Services S3 data storage buckets. I had the chance to speak with Mahesh Rachakonda, vice president of products and solution engineering at CipherCloud, a San Jose, CA-based CASB, about this.

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Cloud Migration Guide Introduction

Spinone

There are certainly challenges with migrating between public clouds as many organizations may suffer from certain “vendor lock in” that takes place when services and virtual resources exist in one public cloud provider vs. another. There are firewall based CASBs as well as API based CASBs.

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

The Last Watchdog

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. Companies can prevent social engineering attacks by steeping employees in cyber hygiene and warning them about the sneaky ways cybercriminals launch cyberattacks.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Everything the Cisco-Splunk merger tells us about the rise of SIEMs

The Last Watchdog

LW: Why are suppliers of legacy firewall, vulnerability management and EDR solutions also now integrating SIEM capabilities? SOAR uses the output of detection engines and investigations and recommends workflows or playbooks to build a response plan, saving time and effort.

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Customer Q and A: Advantasure Developers Talk AppSec

Security Boulevard

Those team members included Sue McTaggart, Senior Application Security Architect; Bindiya Pradhan, DevOps/Release Engineer II; Vladimir Shuklin, Senior Software Engineer; Yuri Shcherbakov, Senior Software Developer/Software Engineer III; and Clay Corrello, Lead Software Engineer. Bindiya : I???m Clay : I???ve Yuriy : I???ve

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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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