Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become one of the largest technology companies in the world. The cloud giant has over 20 data center locations and more than a million customers. Given the size of its customer base, it’s little surprise that outages make the headlines like few other companies. A single human error in 2017…
Enhancing cloud security for AWS deployments
So many organizations are migrating their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud and adopting a “cloud first” approach. With this approach, organizations cut down on overall IT business costs, while increasing scalability, modernizing their IT infrastructure and enabling collaboration among development teams to help solve complex challenges. The most popular cloud computing platform on the…
It Takes an Average 38 Days to Patch a Vulnerability
It takes over a month for the average organization to patch its most critical vulnerabilities, according to a new report detecting trends in Web application attacks. The data comes from tCell, which today released its Q2 2018 “Security Report for In-Production Web Applications.” Researchers analyzed more than 316 million security incidents across its customer base…
Hackers Leverage AWS To Breach, Persist In Corporate Networks
A new body of evidence indicates threat actors are using increasingly advanced techniques to target cloud providers and leveraging cloud-specific traits to hide their activity as they breach and persist in target networks. Data comes from the Threat Stack security team, which spotted the pattern over multiple years of observing behavior on client networks. It…