Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

Cloud Hacking – Why API Remains the Biggest Threat?

By Owais Sultan The top causes of cloud hacking have evolved over the years. Currently, APIs are among the top threats to clouds. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloud Hacking - Why API Remains the Biggest Threat?...

Researchers Discover Hundreds of Amazon RDS Instances Leaking Users' Personal Data

Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service Amazon RDS are exposing personal identifiable information PII, new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show. "Leaking PII in this manner provides a potential treasure trove for threat actors – either during the...

Misconfigurations of Cloud-Managed Infrastructures Continue to be a Major Challenge to Data Security

In case you missed the memo, cloud-hosted data is here to stay. Recent data shows spending on cloud services reached a total of $178 billion in 2021, a 37 percent increase over the $130 billion spent in 2020 and twice the amount enterprises are spending on their data centers. As more organization...

QSC 2022: That’s a Wrap!

Over the years, the threat landscape has exploded, and bad actors have become increasingly sophisticated, making the demand for cloud security platforms - that save security teams time and increase efficiency - a must-have for every cyber arsenal. This was underscored last week at QSC 2022 Las...

QSC 2022 Day 1 Recap: Qualys Gives Organizations More Security in an Ever-Expanding Threat Landscape

The first day of Qualys’ annual security conference in Vegas was filled with a series of presentations by Qualys executives, product managers and customers’ stories about how they used the various security products. The keynotes given by Shark Tank celebrity businessman and CEO of Cyderes, Robert...

Cloud Security: Buyer Be Critical

Tailoring solutions to challenges It takes a toolbox with different, well, tools to secure an ever-expanding operational perimeter in the cloud. Think about what’s under the general daily purview of cloud security teams: preventing misconfigurations, taming threats and vulnerabilities, and so muc...

Improve Post-Quantum Cryptography Security with CSPM

Gain valuable insight into the emerging world of post-quantum computing. Understand the threats attackers with access to quantum computers pose. Learn how harnessing the power of cloud security posture management CSPM can mitigate these looming dangers...

Why Is Snapshot Scanning Not Enough?

As new scanning technologies are released, their supposed superiority is touted over the others. The problem is, however, that there is no best scanning technology, all of them have strengths and limitations. If recent claims from several vendors are believed, a “best” scanning method called...

Why Agentless DAM is a Better Option for Securing Cloud Data

In the context of on-premises database activity monitoring DAM, security teams use agents to enable them to see all requests coming into the databases as well as all responses going out of the databases. In other words, the agent-based approach enables database activity monitoring independent of...

Introducing TotalCloud – Cloud Security Simplified

The shift of business applications and on-premises infrastructure to the cloud has resulted in cloud security teams needing to manage the cyber security risks across the workloads, cloud services, resources, users, and applications. Today, security teams must deal with a set of siloed...

Cloud Security Made Simple in New Guidebook For Lean Teams

Cloud computing was the lifeline that kept many companies running during the pandemic. But it was a classic case of medicine that comes with serious side effects. Having anywhere, anytime access to data and apps gives companies tremendous flexibility in a fast-changing world, plus the means to...

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...

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...