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Cloud Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Less than 20% of IT pros have complete access to critical data in public clouds

Companies have low visibility into their public cloud environments, and the tools and data supplied by cloud providers are insufficient. Lack of visibility can result in a variety of problems including the inability to track or diagnose application performance issues, inability to monitor and deliver against service-level agreements, and delays in detecting and resolving security…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Exposure of sensitive data via cloud applications and services increases 20%

To identify top threats, the Dtex researchers collected and analyzed information from work-issued endpoints across more than 300,000 user accounts. Proprietary, cloud and personal accounts such as email were included in the total. Assessed organizations spanned multiple industries across North America, Europe (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific Region (APAC). The results are available in the…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

How are businesses facing the cybersecurity challenges of increasing cloud adoption?

Cloud services serve core functions essential to all aspects of business operations, but getting cloud security right is still a challenge for many organizations, the 2019 Cloud Threat Report by Oracle and KPMG has shown. The two companies have asked 450 cyber security and IT professionals from private and public-sector organizations in the US, Canada,…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Security Expectations and Mis-Conceptions in Migrating ERP to the Cloud

Digital transformation is increasing the need for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to allow organizations to manage the entirety of their business in a coordinated manner. Globalization is forcing organizations to consider cloud solutions to prevent disjointed business operation across multiple global locations — and even smaller companies are simply attracted by the economies and…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

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…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

How Cloud Security Can Drive Innovation and Transform Your Business

I joined a number of security professionals at the IBM Security Summit in London last month during the “Innovating With Cloud Security” breakout session, which was hosted by Martin Borrett, chief technology officer (CTO) of IBM Security Europe. The audience took part in discussions about typical cloud transformation journeys, security for and from the cloud,…

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.

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

What to do in case of a global security breach

The bitter truth is, everyone in the world is vulnerable to cybercriminals. Even the biggest companies, ones that hold tons of user data, are no exception. On the contrary, they are a likely target. How vulnerable we actually are Have you ever thought about how many global security breaches took place in the past few…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Leaking Cloud Databases and Servers Expose Over 1 Billion Records

As The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, some clients of cloud service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft are accidentally leaving their cloud databases exposed due to misconfigurations of their services. Coupled with recent headline-making breaches, it’s becoming clear that the greatest risks to an organization might come down to a simple permission error or server…