How the Work-From-Home Shift Impacts SaaS Security

The data is in. According to IBM Security's 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, there is a 50% increase in cloud usage for enterprises across all industries. The number of threats targeting cloud services, predominantly collaboration services like Office 365, has increased 630%. Moreover, 75% of...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

CVE-2020-11922

CVE-2020-11922 affects WiZ Colors A60 (1.14.0). The vulnerability is an information disclosure where the device sends unnecessary data to the cloud controller server, including the local IP address and the SSID of the connected Wi‑Fi network. The data is encrypted, and the impact is privacy-relat...

BlueVoyant optimizes customer security with Microsoft security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. What a year it has been. The rapid and unexpected transition to work from home is one of the biggest issues affecting companies of all sizes and industries in 2020. As companies...

Zero Trust: 7 adoption strategies from security leaders

Microsoft considers Zero Trust an essential component of any organization’s security plan. We have partnered with Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes cloud computing best practices, to bring together executive security leaders to discuss and share insights about...

Zero Trust: 7 adoption strategies from security leaders

Microsoft considers Zero Trust an essential component of any organization’s security plan. We have partnered with Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes cloud computing best practices, to bring together executive security leaders to discuss and share insights about...

Malicious Docker Cryptomining Images Rack Up 20M Downloads

At least 30 malicious images in Docker Hub, with a collective 20 million downloads, have been used to spread cryptomining malware, according to an analysis. The malicious images spread across 10 different Docker Hub accounts have raked in around $200,000 from cryptomining, according to Aviv Sasso...

Smogcloud - Find Cloud Assets That No One Wants Exposed

Find exposed AWS cloud assets that you did not know you had. A comprehensive asset inventory is step one to any capable security program. We made smogcloud to enable security engineers, penetration testers, and AWS administrators to monitor the collective changes that create dynamic and ephemeral...

Guardrails to Avoid Cloud Misconfigurations

The stakes and opportunities are higher than ever to ensure that strong operational excellence strategies are implemented. Explore how to help ensure you are holding up your end of the bargain as part of your CSP’s Shared Responsibility Model...

How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on March 9? Register here! The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and...

Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount

As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests ...

Thousands of Android and iOS Apps Leak Data From the Cloud

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time...

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...