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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. It’s crucial to understanding the fitness of the CSP to assess future risk. Security risk review. Other standards to consider are the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls and FedRAMP.

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

The Last Watchdog

CASBs, a term coined by tech industry consultancy Gartner, first cropped about seven years ago to help organizations enforce security and governance policies as they commenced, in earnest, their march into the cloud. Still, the added complexities of cloud migration translated into fresh tiers of wide-open attack vectors.

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

SC Magazine

It’s crucial to understanding the fitness of the CSP to assess future risk,” Vickers aid, advising security teams to find out if that company will be around and remain as a partner in years to come. “If The General Services Administration has developed the Federal Risk and Management program to help manage the NIST controls.

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

The Last Watchdog

Yet all too many companies and individual employees till lack a full appreciation of the significant risks they, and their organizations, face online. Riccardi: SMBs face challenges when dealing with cybersecurity implications of software-enabled, cloud-based operations due to financial and skill limitations.

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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

What’s more, the rapid rise of a remote workforce, in the wake of Covid 19, has only served to accelerate cloud migration, as well as scale up the attendant network exposures. Unmanaged smartphones and laptops, misconfigured Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, unsecured Internet access present more of an enterprise risk than ever.