Podcast: Plugging Leaky Data in the Cloud

Securing data in the cloud is a growing concern for enterprises and SMBs. As more sensitive information is stored in the cloud, users may lack awareness of where their sensitive information is going – and whether that data has been accidentally exposed. Threatpost talked to Scott Ellis, product...

How to evolve your enterprise network security to a zero trust architecture

In the land behind the firewall, build a fortress in the cloud. Let me explain. When I first started working in IT more than twenty five years ago, laptops and mobile phones were for the privileged few. Most people typically stayed in one place when they were online, in most cases using a desktop...

Email Phishers Using New Way to Bypass Microsoft Office 365 Protections

Phishing works no matter how hard a company tries to protect its customers or employees. Security researchers have been warning of a new phishing attack that cybercriminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass the Advanced Threat Protection ATP mechanism implemented by widely used...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Getting The Help You Need

Last week we looked at how the cloud helps you respond quickly to threats. This week, we’re going to examine why the cloud outperforms traditional AV when it comes to getting the help you need. It's You vs. Them Once upon a time, viruses were produced by individual hackers who were more intereste...

The Official Talos Guide to Security Summer Camp 2018

It is once again time for the week in the summer when many of us descend on Las Vegas for Black Hat, DEF CON, and B-Sides LasVegas. This is your official guide to what the Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence team is doing at these shows and what some of our colleagues around Cisco Security are doing,...

Qualys Helps Smaller Organizations Secure Hybrid IT with Free Offering

The digital transformation revolution waits for -- and spares -- no one. It forces all businesses to adopt tech innovations, like cloud, IoT and mobility, and to protect the resulting IT environments as they become hybrid, distributed and elastic. With traditional network perimeters dissolved,...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Responding Quickly To Threats

In this week’s installment of 10 endpoint security problems solved by the cloud, we’re going to step away from last week’s topic, identifying problems, and examine how the cloud helps organizations respond quickly to threats. Speed is Critical Attackers move quickly, and your ability to respond...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 2 By Johan Nordstrom To be able to keep up with the development of new security threats, companies need to rethink their security strategies. The basics must be to decrease complexity and use automated solutions when possible. There has been a change in the...

Imperva Cloud Security Now Available Through UK Government’s GCloud 10 Digital Marketplace

Building on the success of Imperva listing our market-leading, single stack Incapsula cloud platform for DDOS protection; CDN; load balancing and WAF on the GCloud 9 framework, Imperva has now added more products to the GCloud 10 portfolio. As the UK pushes for even greater digital adoption on a...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Securing Remote Workers

In last week’s post, we talked about how the cloud solves the problem of managing multiple agents. In this week’s blog, we’re going to look at a security challenge that almost every company faces: Securing Remote Workers. Remote Workers Are A Security Risk Advances in technology are creating...

5 Key Factors to Consider When Comparing Cloud Security Solutions [Video]

Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge, and so can securing your platform once you’re there. It means having a security solution that is quick, adaptable and equipped to handle a wider breadth of attacks. Whether you’re in the market for a new security product, or you’re looking to switch, the...

GDPR Is Here: Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, protecting these environments is critical for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. GDPR, which went into effect in May, imposes strict requirements on millions of business...

The need and opportunity for adaptive prevention in the cloud

This post is authored by Michael Bargury, Data Scientist, C+E Security. The need The cloud introduces new security challenges, which differ from classic ones by diversity and scale. Once a Virtual Machine VM is up and running with an open internet port, it is almost instantaneously subject to...

Security Bulletin: Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager / SmartCloud Cost Management

Summary Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager / SmartCloud Cost Management bundles WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by connecting to a management port and executing a specific sequence of instructions. Vulnerability...

Gain Visibility and Continuous Security Across All Your Public Clouds

As organizations increase their use of public cloud platforms, they encounter cloud-specific security and compliance threats, which can be challenging to address without the right tools and processes. Organizations’ cloud security difficulties lie in two main areas: Lack of visibility into their...

Continuous Monitoring in the Cloud

I recently spoke at the Cloud Security Alliances Federal Summit on the topic "Continuous Monitoring / Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation CDM Concepts in the Cloud." As government has moved and will continue to move to the cloud, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure continuous...

From the ground up to the cloud: Microsoft’s Intelligent Security supporting CISOs’ cloud transformation

Its no secret that Microsoft has embraced the cloud in a big wayfrom enterprise solutions like Microsoft Azure to Office 365 and Windows. But a recent research report by Forrester focuses on an equally important shift in our approach to securityintegrating workforce and cloud security in ways tha...

cloud.biztexter.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-621744 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| cloud.biztexter.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Learn How Trillions of DNS Requests Help Improve Security

Akamai's global platform is comprised of 240,000 servers in 3,750 locations within 134 countries. Additionally, our platform interacts with 1.3 billion client devices every day and we ingest 2.5 exabytes of data a year. So why are these stats important? The answer is that this visibility provides...

Securing the Hybrid Cloud: A Guide to Using Security Controls, Tools and Automation

When a bank recently created a consumer mobile wallet, it built the entire project -- from development to deployment -- in the cloud, an increasingly common decision among enterprises. A less common step taken by this multinational bank and Qualys customer was incorporating the security team from...