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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. Cloud service provider fitness review. Google, Amazon Web Service, and Oracle are very large companies that have a deep bench for software development. Sean Gallup/Getty Images). Technical review.

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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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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

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.

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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. This data is then sent to the criminal’s server.

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

The Last Watchdog

Nassar: On a personal level, we use our mobile devices to access just about everything from our email, to our banking, to social media collaboration, to sharing photos with family, it’s all in a cloud-mobile environment. Some CISOs, at first, were reserved and said, ‘We’re not moving to the cloud.’

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Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI

Security Boulevard

To achieve these goals, companies require renovation in these core components of business: Modernizing systems, software, and infrastructure . Preventing security-related disruptions encompasses adopting zero trust policies and not just relying on protecting the perimeter with firewalls. . Planning for a fast recovery from disruption.