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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. We recently released an article about a malware we dubbed Cloud Snooper.

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Cloud Migration Security Woes

Anton on Security

I use this label to describe a case when an organization wants to keep every single security technology that they use on-premise after they move to the public cloud. The list can be very long and tedious; it may include such staples as firewalls, anti-malware, SIEM, EDR , NIDS, and even network forensics and NDR.

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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. LW: What about SMBs; how does a traditional VPN service fit as cloud migration deepens?

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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. About Menlo Security.

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

The focus of threat management is mitigating these dangers in order to protect cloud assets effectively. Some of the biggest threats in cloud security are DDoS attacks, cloud storage buckets malware, insider threats, and APT attacks. This botnet is a collection of malware-infected machines that coordinate the attack.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

While the cloud has matured greatly and public cloud vendors have drastically improved security measures , technologies, services, and the overall security infrastructure, cloud security is certainly still one of the major concerns with cloud infrastructure of all types.

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The Cybersecurity Challenge in Mergers and Acquisitions

Digital Shadows

We helped the customer assess the full scope of the incident, identify abnormal processes linked to the malware, and re-image the affected machine. This case exemplifies the challenge of inheriting malware from endpoints acquired during M&A. Even outside of M&A, achieving a complete asset inventory is challenging.