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Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO

SC Magazine

A visitor photographs a symbol of a cloud at the Deutsche Telekom stand the day before the CeBIT technology trade fair. Other standards to consider are the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls and FedRAMP. The post Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO appeared first on SC Media.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: How a well-placed ‘NGWAF’ can staunch the flow of web, mobile app attacks

The Last Watchdog

We discussed why filtering web and mobile app traffic remains as critical as ever, even as cloud migration intensifies; for a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen. This upgrade, he told me, is expressly aimed at helping companies optimize secure performance of their hybrid cloud environments.

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Q&A: The lesser role VPNs now play for enterprises, SMBs — in a post-pandemic world

The Last Watchdog

Most business applications, especially Microsoft Exchange were on-premise deployments that required a company either opening up access to the whole internet or requiring a VPN connection to the company’s perimeter firewall or dedicated VPN concentrator. Enterprises are likely Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, or Check Point.

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

The Last Watchdog

I recently had the chance to sit down with Kevin Simzer, chief operating officer of Trend Micro, to discuss two of them: Cloud Workload Protection Platform ( CWPP ) and Cloud Security Posture Management ( CSPM.) Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks. Protecting workloads.

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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 they were not at all surprising.

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NEW TECH: CASBs continue evolving to help CISOs address multiplying ‘cloud-mobile’ risks

The Last Watchdog

Some CISOs, at first, were reserved and said, ‘We’re not moving to the cloud.’ They don’t necessarily think that this is part of a cloud migration, until they start using AWS and Azure and moving their workforce fully into the cloud. Traditional security controls, like endpoint security, firewalls, proxies, etc.,

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

The Last Watchdog

Leading-edge CASB systems gave companies granular visibility and control over infrastructure ( IaaS ,) platform ( PaaS ) and software applications ( SaaS ) supplied by a cloud services vendor. Still, the added complexities of cloud migration translated into fresh tiers of wide-open attack vectors. I’ll keep watch.

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