How a Cloud Security Broker Reduces SaaS App Risks - SASE Part 4

Responsibility for protecting users and critical data in cloud applications falls to the organizations that use them. Discover how to maintain data control with Cloud Application Security Broker CASB technology...

Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

The ongoing shift of traditional IT functions to the cloud brings new cyber risks for enterprises. Discover three current cloud security challenges and how to prevent them from causing financial, operational, and reputational damage...

CISA Requests for Comment on Microsoft 365 Security Configuration Baselines

CISA has issued requests for comment RFCs on eight Microsoft 365 security configuration baselines as part of the Secure Cloud Business Application SCuBA project to secure federal civilian executive branch agencies’ FCEB cloud environments. The baselines: • Build on and integrate previous security...

Emerging best practices for securing cloud-native environments

Globally, IT experts recognise security as the most significant barrier to cloud adoption, in part because many of the ways of securing traditional IT environments are not always applicable to cloud-native infrastructure. As a result, security teams may find themselves behind the curve and...

Cloud IAM Done Right: How LPA Helps Significantly Reduce Cloud Risk

Authored by Sanjeev Williams and Ryan Blanchard Today almost all cloud users, roles, and identities are overly permissive. This leads to repeated headlines and forensic reports of attackers leveraging weak identity postures to gain a foothold, and then moving laterally within an organization's...

Lateral movement risks in the cloud and how to prevent them – Part 1: the network layer (VPC)

In this first blog post, we will introduce lateral movement as it pertains to the VPC. We will discuss attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for security practitioners and cloud builders to help secure their cloud environment and reduce risk...

Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections

Security teams face an expanding attack surface as organizations increasingly use cloud-native services to develop, deploy, and manage applications across their multicloud and hybrid environments. Their challenge is compounded by incomplete visibility, siloed processes, and a lack of prioritized...

Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections

Security teams face an expanding attack surface as organizations increasingly use cloud-native services to develop, deploy, and manage applications across their multicloud and hybrid environments. Their challenge is compounded by incomplete visibility, siloed processes, and a lack of prioritized...

5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 to help you secure more with less

Protecting your business against growing security threats is a huge priority. Companies of all sizes have increased their spending on cybersecurity solutions to protect their operations over the last year. User spending for the information security and risk management market will grow to USD169.2...

5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 to help you secure more with less

Protecting your business against growing security threats is a huge priority. Companies of all sizes have increased their spending on cybersecurity solutions to protect their operations over the last year. User spending for the information security and risk management market will grow to USD169.2...

Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections

Security teams face an expanding attack surface as organizations increasingly use cloud-native services to develop, deploy, and manage applications across their multicloud and hybrid environments. Their challenge is compounded by incomplete visibility, siloed processes, and a lack of prioritized...

5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 to help you secure more with less

Protecting your business against growing security threats is a huge priority. Companies of all sizes have increased their spending on cybersecurity solutions to protect their operations over the last year. User spending for the information security and risk management market will grow to USD169.2...

Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections

Security teams face an expanding attack surface as organizations increasingly use cloud-native services to develop, deploy, and manage applications across their multicloud and hybrid environments. Their challenge is compounded by incomplete visibility, siloed processes, and a lack of prioritized...

7 Ways Imperva Solutions Reduce the Cost of Data Security

As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets for the last three months of 2022. The result is increased pressure to achieve data security whi...

How Will the Metaverse Affect Cloud Security?

The metaverse is an immersive digital world of augmented reality. While supporting a virtual universe relies on cloud storage, questions arise on how this will affect cloud security. Gain valuable insight on security concerns surrounding the metaverse now and in the near future...

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security - SASE Part 3

Explore why secure web gateway SWG is important to effectively secure cloud resources and reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

Imperva DSF Secures Your Data in Amazon Web Services Enterprise Data Lakes

Data lakes serve as a central repository for storing several data types - structured, semi-structured, and unstructured - at scale. One of the ways data lakes are useful is they do not require any upfront work on the data. You can simply integrate and store data as it streams in from multiple...

Amazon Cognito Insecure Permissions

Amazon Cognito is a cloud product from Amazon Web Services AWS which provides user authentication, authorization and management services for web and mobile applications. By using Amazon Cognito, developers can quickly add a user management feature to their applications, control and enforce...

Stronger Cloud Security in Azure Functions Using Custom Cloud Container

In this entry, we discuss how developers can use custom cloud container image and the distroless approach to minimize security gaps in Azure Functions...

Leaking Passwords through the Spellchecker

Sometimes browser spellcheckers leak passwords: When using major web browsers like Chrome and Edge, your form data is transmitted to Google and Microsoft, respectively, should enhanced spellcheck features be enabled. Depending on the website you visit, the form data may itself include...