DevOps

Cloud Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

To accommodate remote work policies amid COVID-19, companies have increasingly adopted the public cloud to support off-site business continuity. A MarketsandMarkets analysis found that due to the impact of the current crisis, the cloud market is expected to grow from $233 billion in 2019 to $295 billion by 2021. The transition to remote work by…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

There’s significant variation in DevOps maturation and security integration across the financial services, government, retail, telecom, and technology industries, according to Puppet’s report based on nearly 3,000 responses. “Integrating security into your DevOps practices can be challenging, but when done correctly is proven to pay off. Security should not be an afterthought; it must be…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO

What is security’s role in digital transformation?

Two years ago, digital transformations had kicked into high gear, with new processes and product development moving ahead at breakneck speed. As IT and business fast-tracked initiatives like agile and DevOps to improve speed to market, security considerations were often left in the dust. At the time, Gartner predicted that 60% of digital businesses would…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Organizational silos create unnecessary security risk for global businesses. The lack of security involvement in DevOps projects was reportedly creating cyber risk for 72% of IT leaders, according to Trend Micro. In an effort to better understand the DevOps culture, Trend Micro commissioned Vanson Bourne to poll 1,310 IT decision makers in SMB and enterprise…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

How to Prioritize Security Vulnerabilities in SecDevOps

Software development has shifted into overdrive to keep pace with the demand for rapid releases. To meet this challenge, the industry has moved in recent years to the far more agile development and operations (DevOps) model, which has enabled companies to push out releases faster and more efficiently. However, more code means more vulnerability alerts….

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: CyberArk Blog

Where Rubber Meets the Road: Exposed Credentials in the Cloud Facilitate Cryptocurrency Mining

Cloud and DevOps enable powerful, transformational advances across many businesses – from finance to manufacturing. But, what happens when a cyber attacker gets a hold of the access keys to the cloud account of a leading automobile manufacturer? Well, as learned in the recently reported breach at Tesla, the attackers exploited access to mine for cryptocurrency! Reportedly,…

Network Security, Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

The global decline of cybersecurity confidence

Tenable Network Security solicited insights from 700 security practitioners in nine countries and across seven industry verticals to calculate a global index score reflecting overall confidence that the world’s cyber defenses are meeting expectations. According to this year’s data, global cybersecurity confidence fell six points over 2016 to earn an overall score of 70 percent…