Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

An influential Gartner paper stated many years ago that “Clouds Are Secure: Are You Using Them Securely?” So began the legend of cloud security vs secure clouds. When I was an analyst, we sometimes had to discuss with clients whether various providers of public cloud services are “secure.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Most Popular Data Security Webinars of 2022: Sovereignty, Cloud Security and Compliance Top the List. Trends in Cloud Security: Key Findings from the 2022 Cloud Security Study. Along with this shift, security challenges have changed and increased, and are top of mind for IT teams and security professionals.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

This is especially alarming as 94% of CIOs acknowledge some serious threat to their environment within the next year. This is especially alarming as 94% of CIOs acknowledge some serious threat to their environment within the next year. 68% of IT and security professionals plan to use zero trust for device security; 42% actually do.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. For many organizations, the idea of storing data or running applications on infrastructure that they do not manage directly seems inherently insecure. What is cloud security?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15. Malware and ransomware attacks increase.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Driven by the global pandemic, the increase in remote and hybrid work , and unprepared network defenses, cyberattacks have been rising exponentially. Cyberattack Statistics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

What further compounds an already complex architectural and security landscape is the fact that critical infrastructure industries in various countries tend to be either partially or fully government controlled; with many providing “essential services” such as Healthcare, Water, Power, Emergency Services and Food production.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

Compared to other operating systems, Linux patch management is unique because of its open-source nature, which enables a sizable community of developers and security professionals to find vulnerabilities, examine the code, and submit patches.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks almost doubled during 2021 over 2020, according to Sophos State of Ransomware 2022 report, affecting 66% of businesses, up from 37%. They have also become increasingly proficient at encrypting data. In 2021, data encryption was successful in 65% of attacks, an increase from the 54% rate reported in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

An influential Gartner paper stated many years ago that “Clouds Are Secure: Are You Using Them Securely?”. So began the legend of cloud security vs secure clouds. When I was an analyst, we sometimes had to discuss with clients whether various providers of public cloud services are “secure.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

How to Address the Requirements of Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law of Indonesia divya Thu, 02/02/2023 - 06:35 In response to the increased number of attacks targeting the personal data of millions of Indonesian citizens, the government passed the first Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law in 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 21, 2021

And, the KSA recognizes their digital transformation will require reinforcing and supporting cybersecurity to protect the Kingdom’s vital interests, national security, critical infrastructures, high-priority sectors, and government services and practices. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY AUTHORITY. Essential Cybersecurity Controls. Resilience.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Many Challenges of a Multi-Cloud Business Environment. The pandemic merely accelerated what has been a long-term broad adoption of cloud environments, including multi-cloud and hybrid deployments. The benefits of cloud come with significant new security challenges for organizations. How do I secure data in the cloud?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic. While these devices offer medical environments tremendous capabilities to care for patients and increase efficiencies, each device increases an organization’s attack surface. This increase impacted the medical records of some 26 million people in the United States alone.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 14, 2020

As a result, companies around the globe are doing everything they can to maintain a “business as usual” pace so there is minimal disruption, even if it means relaxing security processes and quickly adopting new tools that may create new risks. The last gasp of “traditional” on-premises data centers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data. Sophos’ recent report, The State of Ransomware , reveals that paying the ransom can end up costing companies double the overall remediation cost versus not paying or getting the data back through backups or other methods. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:55.

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Spinone

AUGUST 25, 2020

Third-party applications can greatly extend the functionality and capabilities of your public cloud environments. However, they can also introduce potential security implications as well. Focusing on Google’s G Suite environment – what is application security? What does G Suite Security involve?

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Centraleyes

MARCH 28, 2024

To help teams alleviate all-too-familiar compliance pain points, we’ll share our top picks for the eight best compliance automation platforms and explore key areas where automation can make all the difference. Compliance automation is like finding an underground tunnel through a (literal) mountain of paperwork and manual processes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The power of quantum computing brings security complexities that we are only beginning to understand. The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high in 2021, and the attack vector grows larger by the minute. Most of our current online privacy protocols utilize cryptography to maintain privacy and data integrity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic. While these devices offer medical environments tremendous capabilities to care for patients and increase efficiencies, each device increases an organization’s attack surface. This increase impacted the medical records of some 26 million people in the United States alone.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

To safeguard learning continuity in this environment, US lawmakers have passed legislation aimed at mitigating security and privacy risks for the K–12 community. To safeguard learning continuity in this environment, US lawmakers have passed legislation aimed at mitigating security and privacy risks for the K–12 community.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

IT security pros have never faced more threats, whether it’s from the huge increase in remote work or aggressive nation-state sponsored hackers like those involved in the SolarWinds breach. Here are some of the most common IT security vulnerabilities and how to protect against them. Missing data encryption.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. The best ones find the right balance between performance, security effectiveness, and cost. Best Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Amazon Web Services. Checkpoint. Cloudflare. Microsoft Azure. Signal Sciences.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

In this post, I will explain how one Azure service supporting DevOps can start in a very solid “secure by default” state, but then quickly descend into a very dangerous configured state. Abusing Azure Hybrid Workers for Privilege Escalation. To be abundantly clear: there is no exploit here. No patchable vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cloud security posture management (CSPM) discovers and manages infrastructure and configuration risks across cloud environments. As most cloud security failures are due to customer error, CSPM’s ability to find and fix those errors has made it a critical cloud security tool.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Penetration testing is a critically important cybersecurity practice, but one that many organizations lack the on-staff skills to do themselves. Here, in our analysis, are seven of the best pentesting service providers, followed by more information about what to look for when choosing a pentesting service.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2023

Now that the pandemic has largely subsided, many working environments have transitioned into a new hybrid workplace style. The first security measure businesses adopted during the pandemic was using VPNs that allowed employees to work remotely while still enjoying connectivity and security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis. This real-time filtration process ensures that only authorized and safe data reaches your network to protect your systems from any malicious or suspicious activities.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2022

Migrating to and utilizing cloud environments – public, hybrid, or multi – is a source of real investment and positive change for businesses. Related: Cloud security frameworks take hold. But often overlooked in the migration process is the significance of a company’s embedded security measures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

To better understand how organizations approach vulnerability management, oversee their attack surface, and control risk, NopSec surveyed 426 security professionals with questions designed to illuminate and quantify their day-to-day challenges, frustrations, and priorities. Risk-based prioritization is vital.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Theft and other data security incidents cost financial institutions millions of dollars and result in more consumer records being lost or stolen, year after year. The fact is, bad actors make plans and prey upon unprotected data – a very valuable currency. Being “in compliance” doesn’t necessarily equate to full data protection.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2020

and Washington was among the first states to issue shelter at home orders. Covid19 has upgraded the Internet — from the criminals’ point of view — to a picture-perfect environment for phishing, scamming and deep network intrusions. Seattle reported the first Covid19 fatality in the U.S. ,

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, bad actors may contribute data to large language models (LLMs) too. Here are 10 of the most powerful trends I’ve seen this year — both in the realm of threats and the sphere of security strategies. If we can't map breaches, threat intelligence is reactive at best. As trends go, it has more longevity than most.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Sebastian Goodwin, CISO, Nutanix IT budgets and revenue growth areas are top of mind at the beginning of every calendar year, even more so with the current state of the world economy. IT departments and data teams are looking at the best ways to prioritize, maintain and build security measures – while being cost effective.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 4, 2021

In our previous blog, we introduced the Gartner report “Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Serverless PaaS” 1 which discusses the challenges security teams face securing serverless and PaaS services, along with the best practices Gartner recommends to address those challenges.

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