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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. Related: Threat actors add ‘human touch’ to hacks To be sure, enterprises continue to rely heavily on their legacy, on-premises datacenters. And now we have that same pattern playing out, once more, with cloud migration.

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NEW TECH: ‘Micro-segmentation’ security vendor Guardicore seeks to disrupt firewall market

The Last Watchdog

Related: Micro-segmentation taken to the personal device level The flip side, of course, is that an already wide-open attack surface – one that has been getting plundered for the past two decades by criminal hacking groups — is getting scaled up, as well. Guardicore appears to be onto something. That’s far less than ideal, he contends.

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. A slew of new cloud-security frameworks have gained traction since the Capital One hack. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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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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NEW TECH: Trend Micro flattens cyber risks — from software development to deployment

The Last Watchdog

Long before this awful pandemic hit us, cloud migration had attained strong momentum in the corporate sector. As Covid19 rages on, thousands of large to mid-sized enterprises are now slamming pedal to the metal on projects to switch over to cloud-based IT infrastructure. Companies are expected to spend an estimated $31.6

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Customer Q and A: Advantasure Developers Talk AppSec

Security Boulevard

I have developer friends who put up personal firewalls and they have a Raspberry Pi to filter out the world. When we look at the cloud migrations, we just have to build it in, and we also have to have that automated testing and an automated deployment cycle that requires a security check. t think it???s In the early 2000???s

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Customer Q and A: Advantasure Developers Talk AppSec

Veracode Security

I have developer friends who put up personal firewalls and they have a Raspberry Pi to filter out the world. When we look at the cloud migrations, we just have to build it in, and we also have to have that automated testing and an automated deployment cycle that requires a security check. t think it???s In the early 2000???s