4 ways Microsoft is delivering security for all in a Zero Trust world

If there’s one thing the dawning of 2021 has shown, it’s that security isn’t getting any easier. Recent high-profile breach activity has underscored the growing sophistication of today’s threat actors and the complexity of managing business risk in an increasingly connected world. It’s a struggle...

Securing and governing data in a new hybrid work reality

The past year has led to an evolution in not only how we think about work, but more importantly, where work gets done. Arguably, gone are the days that your organization’s data is limited to the protected confines of your corporate network as your people continue to work remotely, return in some...

Anatomy of a Security Super Bowl Dynasty, Part 1: The Defense

Imperva’s Directors of Technology in the Office of the CTO, Brian Anderson and Craig Burlingame, recently conducted an informal education session titled Creating a Security Super Bowl Dynasty. In this presentation, they used examples of how teams create consistent, sustainable success in American...

Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

Azure Security Center is a critical tool to secure our multi-cloud workloads in the new world of remote work we find ourselves in today. We are excited to share that Forrester Consulting has just conducted a commissioned Total Economic Impact TEI study on behalf of Microsoft, which involved...

The Weakest Link in Your Security Posture: Misconfigured SaaS Settings

In the era of hacking and malicious actors, a company's cloud security posture is a concern that preoccupies most, if not all, organizations. Yet even more than that, it is the SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM that is critical to today's company security. Recently Malwarebytes released a...

IBM Verify Gateway Security Vulnerability

IBM Verify Gateway IVG is a cloud-based authentication solution from IBM USA. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Verify Gateway that stems from inadequate protection of tenant secrets when the IBM Verify Gateway IVG component makes API calls. It is possible for an attacker to obtain an access...

Top Cloud Security Challenges for 2021

Hear from Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of Cloud Research at Trend Micro, on the top cloud security challenges that will be faced in 2021...

Modernizing your network security strategy

From the global pandemic to recent cyberattacks, our world has faced many challenges during the past 12 months. Some of these challenges we can’t change. However, I’m pleased about the ones we can, and are changing across the cybersecurity landscape. For example, to facilitate remote work and...

OpenCSPM - Open Cloud Security Posture Management Engine

Open Cloud Security Posture Management, OpenCSPM, is an open-source platform for gaining deeper insight into your cloud configuration and metadata to help understand and reduce risk over time. Who is OpenCSPM for? Security teams running infrastructure in cloud environments looking to gain...

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Kubernetes Security Provider, Alcide

Organizations around the globe continue to embrace the flexibility, speed, and agility of the cloud. Those that have adopted it are able to accelerate innovation and deliver real value to their customers faster than ever before. However, while the cloud can bring a tremendous amount of benefits t...

Rocke Group’s Malware Now Has Worm Capabilities

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with “worm” capabilities and rootkit...

Protecting multi-cloud environments with Azure Security Center

We’ve heard from many of you that multi-cloud adoption is becoming a standard operating model for your organization and that it’s challenging to have the right security controls and posture across your environment. Historically, security teams have not had effective tools to secure multi-cloud...

Congratulations to 2020 Akamai Partners of the Year

Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These...

Cisco Umbrella Security Vulnerability

Cisco Umbrella is a suite of cloud security platforms from Cisco. The platform prevents cyber threats such as phishing, malware and ransomware. A security vulnerability exists in Cisco Umbrella's web UI that originated from allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to negatively impact the...

Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns

On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...

Increasing resilience against Solorigate and other sophisticated attacks with Microsoft Defender

­Even as investigations into the sophisticated attack known as Solorigate are still underway, details and insights about the tools, patterns, and methods used by the attackers point to steps that organizations can take to improve their defenses against similar attacks. Solorigate is a cross-domai...

Attackers Exploit Poor Cyber Hygiene to Compromise Cloud Security Environments

CISA is aware of several recent successful cyberattacks against various organizations’ cloud services. Threat actors used a variety of tactics and techniques, including phishing and brute force logins, to attempt to exploit weaknesses in cloud security practices. In response, CISA has released...

Reprioritizing security requirements for 2021

To say 2020 was a strange year would be an understatement. Among the effects of the global pandemic were major changes in where and how people work and accelerated commitments to organizational digital transformation. Cyber attackers weren’t shy about taking advantage of the blind spots these...

Cloud is King: 9 Software Security Trends to Watch in 2021

IT security professionals have largely spent the year managing a once-in-a-generation workforce shift from office to home in 2020. With the initial push over, experts predict that 2021 will be focused on shoring up the cloud and re-imagining organizational workflows under this new normal. Softwar...

A Guide to the Well-Architected Framework

This article explores the five pillars of the Amazon Web Services AWS and Azure Well-Architected Framework, examining best practices and design principles to leverage the cloud in a more efficient, secure, and cost-effective manner...