Imperva Snapshot™ Scan: What You Can Find in the Report

Imperva Snapshot is a free AWS RDS security assessment tool. You can use this tool to gain in-depth visibility into your data and get a deep understanding about what data resides in your RDS and where your RDS database security gaps are. Acquiring this intelligence is a key element and critical...

Relay races, batons, and techniques: How to improve your cloud security posture

In 2008, the US 4x100m relay team was the favorite to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Not a massive surprise, considering that team included the second fastest athlete in history, Tyson Gay. It was a great shock though when the team blundered on the last exchange, dropping the baton,...

How Extended Security Posture Management Optimizes Your Security Stack

As a CISO, one of the most challenging questions to answer is "How well are we protected right now?" Between the acceleration of hackers' offensive capabilities and the dynamic nature of information networks, a drift in the security posture is unavoidable and needs to be continuously compensated...

Euronet Worldwide: Speedy, Global Response to Threats Reduces Risk

After years of using manual processes and systems to manage its IT inventory and track vulnerabilities, racking up costs, and increasing the complexity of asset and vulnerability management, Euronet Worldwide needed a way to get a single, accurate and timely view of risk exposure at the group...

How Open Systems uses Microsoft tools to improve security maturity

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. We’ve all seen it happen—an organization has all the top-notch security tools in place and still, they get breached. In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, complexity leads to...

Securing SaaS Apps — CASB vs. SSPM

There is often confusion between Cloud Access Security Brokers CASB and SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM solutions, as both are designed to address security issues within SaaS applications. CASBs protect sensitive data by implementing multiple security policy enforcements to safeguard critic...

How Microsoft is partnering with vendors to provide Zero Trust solutions

As workplaces around the world embrace hybrid work, Zero Trust provides the guiding strategy that keeps companies secure. However, no two organizations are alike. The Zero Trust journey will look unique for every organization that implements it. This means we must work together to create solution...

Product Overview: Cynet SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)

Software-as-a-service SaaS applications have gone from novelty to business necessity in a few short years, and its positive impact on organizations is clear. It's safe to say that most industries today run on SaaS applications, which is undoubtedly positive, but it does introduce some critical ne...

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications' security posture. With enterprises having 1,000 or more employees...

SANS 2021 Threat Hunting Survey: How Organizations' Security Postures Have Evolved in the New Normal

It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided ...

Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line

If you ask organizations about their top objectives, you will likely hear they need to increase visibility, reduce toolsets and adopt automation to counteract the cybersecurity skills gap. And what most don’t realize is that these initiatives are driven by hurdles the industry has created for...

COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Data Exposed, Fake Vax Cards Circulate

This week, the Indiana Department of Health issued a notice that the state’s COVID-19 contact-tracing system had been exposed via a cloud misconfiguration, revealing names, emails, gender, ethnicity, race and dates of birth of more than 750,000 people. The incident shows that COVID-19 data could ...

7 ways to harden your environment against compromise

Here at the global Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice CRSP, we work with customers who have experienced disruptive security incidents to restore trust in identity systems and remove adversary control. During 2020, the team responded to many incidents involving ransomware and the...

Salesforce Release Updates — A Cautionary Tale for Security Teams

On the surface, Salesforce seems like a classic Software-as-a-Service SaaS platform. Someone might even argue that Salesforce invented the SaaS market. However, the more people work with the full offering of Salesforce, the more they realize that it goes beyond a traditional SaaS platform's...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

Risks in Telecommunications IT

We summarize the characteristics, threats, and recommendations to improve the security posture of enterprises' and telecommunications companies' IT infrastructure...

Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Modern password policies are comprised of many different elements that contribute to its effectiveness. One of the components of an effective current password policy makes use of what is known as a custom dictionary that filters out certain words that are not allowed as passwords in the...

Coursera Flunks API Test in Researchers’ Security Exam

Researchers have discovered multiple application programming interface API issues in Coursera, the online learning platform used by 82 million learners and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. On Thursday, the Checkmarx Security Research Team published a report on its findings, which included user...

Application Layer is Still the Front Door for Data Breaches

By Terry Ray, SVP and Fellow, Imperva Each year, the number of data breaches grows by 30% while the number of records compromised increases by an average of 224%. 2021 is far from over, but we’re already on pace for another record-setting year. In fact, Imperva research finds that more records we...

Network Policies to Help Reduce Risk and Improve Security

Cloud workloads frequently require internet access, and as we know, anything accessing the internet can be breached. This article explores simple tactics such as access level restriction and overlaying threat intelligence to enhance your security posture...