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FIRESIDE CHAT: Timely employee training, targeted testing needed to quell non-stop phishing

The Last Watchdog

And this is the fundamental reason phishing persists as a predominant cybercriminal activity. The poll found that security teams are spending one-third of their time handling phishing threats every week. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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

The Last Watchdog

Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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The State of Cloud and Cloud Security in 2020

SecureWorld News

Not everyone would describe cloud security as "very exciting," however, the four expert panelists who joined us on our series of SecureWorld Remote Sessions for a Q&A hour all certainly shared this sentiment. The panelists spoke on cloud migration, the state of the cloud during the pandemic, the DevOps pipeline, and more.

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

eSecurity Planet

Malware in Cloud Storage Buckets Malware threatens cloud storage buckets due to misconfigurations, infected data, and phishing. 4 Top Cloud Security Risks A cloud security risk is a combination of the possibility of a threat arising and the system’s vulnerability.

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2024 Cybersecurity Industry Experts Predictions: Part 1

IT Security Guru

Mike Newman, CEO of My1Login: Cloud migration will expand the attack surface “In the last year organisations have continued to transform by moving more of their applications and data into the cloud. To achieve this, investment in awareness programmes and phishing simulation exercises is essential.

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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. I’ll keep watch.