cloud services

Application Security, Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

A total of 28 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in the first half of June 2022, the highest number for half a month since SecurityWeek started tracking M&A activity in January 2021. Acumera acquires Netsurion’s Secure Edge Networking business Managed network security solutions provider Acumera has bought Netsurion’s Secure Edge Networking business. Acumera has…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

RSA CONFERENCE 2022 – If cloud services weren’t complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there’s also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws. Researchers from Wiz.io last week at RSA Conference in San Francisco unveiled an open source, cloud middleware database…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

The pandemic-propelled shift to work-from-home and bring-your-own-devices accelerated the already expanding move to the cloud. IDC predicts that global cloud spending will grow from $703 billion in 2021 to $1.3 trillion in 2025. Statista reports that the percentage of corporate data stored on the cloud rose from 30% in 2015 to 48% at the beginning…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO

Software supply chains have become a tasty target for adversaries fueled by successful, high-profile attacks on companies like Solarwinds and Kaseya and open-source offerings like Log4j. Now a software applications security company seeks to address the problem with what it’s saying is the first attack surface management (ASM) product to address threats across the application…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Trusted Cloud Principles signatories say they are committed to maintaining consistent human rights standards across their services, while also ensuring that cloud services providers’ interests are protected. The initiative has received support from heavy industry names, including Amazon, Atlassian, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, and IBM, among others. “Trusted Cloud Principles signatories are committed to protecting the…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

We have all heard the castle-and-moat analogy to describe traditional centralized approaches to cybersecurity. As cloud security becomes increasingly important in the modern landscape, I think we should add one more component to the analogies we use to think about security: fog. Sometimes the fog is so thick that you can barely see what is…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

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…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

It’s Time to Bring Cloud Environments Out of the Shadows

The speed and scale of cloud computing has provided companies around the globe with more flexibility, lower overhead costs and quicker time to value for a wide variety of applications. While the business value of cloud adoption is undebatable, this rapid transition can leave security teams in the dark and sensitive information exposed.