Excerpts from 10 Endpoint Security Problems – And How the Cloud Solves Them

Predicting new threats is the top challenge for security and IT professionals Traditional antivirus is based on what’s already known – it can only stop known malware attacks based on the signatures it has at the moment. But the problem is only 30% of attacks are malware-based; if you rely solely ...

John Summers Q&A - Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit

Akamai's John Summers, VP & CTO, spoke at the recent Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit, a gathering of 75 major organization CIOs. His session was titled, "Cloud Security - Adopt Zero Trust and Put Asset-Level Safeguards in Place." Here are some of the key questions he addressed. How do you...

Asylo Open-Source Framework Tackles TEEs for Cloud

Asylo, an open-source framework and software development kit SDK for creating applications that run in trusted execution environments TEEs, has launched to tackle the complexity involved in running a confidential computing platform for workloads in the cloud and virtual environments. TEEs provide...

Cloud Security Governance - Optimizing the Business Benefits of Security in the Cloud

Enterprises are increasingly pursuing the business advantages of migrating technology platforms and services into the cloud environment leveraging one or more of the three main cloud service areas - Infrastructure as a Service IaaS, Platform as a Service PaaS, and Software as a Service SaaS. Thes...

How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure

A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...

RSA 2018 recap: GDPR, Increasing Visibility and Transparency of Cloud Security

RSA 2018 is in the books! The event welcomed 42,000 attendees to San Francisco, including cybersecurity professionals, vendors, media, and analysts. The themes of visibility and transparency repeatedly came up in discussions and presentations as organizations grapple with ever-increasing data flo...

When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, protecting these environments is critical for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. These public cloud platforms are being used to pow...

Cloud Credentials: New Attack Surface for Old Problem

SAN FRANCISCO – Credential theft and abuse have long been a nagging problem for local network administrators. The threat surface ranges from pretexting scams to insiders who abuse network privileges in order to grant themselves higher permissions than otherwise assigned. Here at RSA Conference,...

Securing Cloud-Native Applications

A conversation with Randy Bias Last week we were able to sit down with Randy Bias — a cloud pioneer and a technology visionary who currently oversees Juniper Networks cloud strategy. We have asked Randy to share his thoughts on the security of private and public clouds and specifically cloud-nati...

Linux server discovered bitcoin extortion event, do a good Four Points from a loss-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Following the Windows encountered ransomware virus after the Linux server was bitcoin extortion cases have occurred, you think to pay a ransom just to end? Important warning Recently, Tencent cloud security team monitoring to the cloud on a Linux server began to appear bitcoin extortion event, th...

Qualys: Cloud Security Must Move Towards ‘Transparent Orchestration’

What does the “My Little Pony” television series and cyber security have in common? Ask Qualys Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar. Whenever his 7-year old daughter wanted to see an episode of this show, the process involved multiple steps: Turning on the smart TV, scrolling through the app menu,...

Tapping the intelligent cloud to make security better and easier

There has been a distinct shift in my conversations with customers over the last year. Most have gone from asking can we still keep our assets secure as we adopt cloud services?, to declaring, we are adopting cloud services in order to improve our security posture. The driving factor is generally...

Actionable Threat Intelligence, Tailored to You

We are very excited to be launching the next generation of our Client Reputation product. This update takes Client Reputation a huge step further in providing our customers with truly actionable intelligence tailored for them. It computes an even better assessment of the real risk that every...

Climbing the Ladder: Zero Trust, Single Sign-On, Multiple Applications

It is understood that there is a significant amount of complexity to securing today's enterprise, especially as more services and applications move to the cloud and a Zero Trust security model is employed. We at Akamai are actively engaged in helping enterprises adjust to a Zero Trust security...

Security for SaaS Companies:Leveraging Infosec for Business Value

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Carbon Black Given 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2018 Partner Program Guide

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has given Carbon Black a 5-Star rating in its 2018 Partner Program Guide. According to CRN, this annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors that provide products and services through the IT...

Securing your Cloud and Container DevOps Pipeline

Organizations are aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. Driving this growth in cloud computing adoption is its essential role in digital...

This Week in Security News: IT Pros and Cyberthreats

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, 62 percent of IT decision makers report that on-premises security is safer than the cloud, and a new report says 68 percent of businesses ar...

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 23 is now available

As security incidents and events keep making headlines, Microsoft is committed to helping our customers and the rest of the security community to make sense of the risks and offer recommendations. Old and new malware continues to get propagated through massive botnets, attackers are increasing...

The Future of Cybersecurity Is in the Cloud

For decades we have feared the cloud. During my time working counterintelligence for the FBI, we feared the Internet so much that agency computers functioned solely on an isolated intranet connected via hard cables. It’s no wonder to me that that government has still not embraced the unlimited...