In hot pursuit of elusive threats: AI-driven behavior-based blocking stops attacks in their tracks

Our experience in detecting and blocking threats on millions of endpoints tells us that attackers will stop at nothing to circumvent protections. Even one gap in security can be disastrous to an organization. At Microsoft, we don’t stop finding new ways to fill in gaps in security. We go beyond...

CISOs: Support vendor security ops for best cloud results

Data from McKinsey Insights suggests that many CISOs are uneasy about increasing dependence on SaaS applications and the security risks – real or perceived – the cloud represents. Their apprehension isn’t slowing down cloud adoption. As McKinsey put it, “Most companies … will eventually confront...

Microsoft is awarded Zscaler’s Technology Partner of the Year for 2019

Last week at Zscaler’s user conference, Zenith Live, Microsoft received Zscaler’s Technology Partner of the Year Award in the Impact category. The award was given to Microsoft for the depth and breadth of integrations we’ve collaborated with Zscaler on and the positive feedback received from...

Empower your Cloud Ops Teams – Publish Qualys CloudView Security Assessment Reports to their Slack Channel

In today’s constantly changing and evolving cloud environments, being able to quickly provide information on misconfigurations and security policy violations in your cloud accounts and assets has become a critical need to the success of your security operations. Many cloud platforms offer tools...

ScoutSuite - Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool

Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security-auditing tool, which enables security posture assessment of cloud environments. Using the APIs exposed by cloud providers, Scout Suite gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights risk areas. Rather than going through dozens of...

Beyond The Standard CISO Cloud Security Guide

Verizon recently released a 5 step process for evaluating cloud security products and services to inform purchase decisions. That’s a fantastic tool for buyers to have. This is especially helpful because cloud discussions are almost always driven by business objectives to satisfy a cost and or...

How Cloud-Based Automation Can Keep Business Operations Secure

The massive data breach at Capital One – America's seventh-largest bank, according to revenue – has challenged many common assumptions about cloud computing for the first time. Ironically, the incident, which exposed some 106 million Capital One customers' accounts, has only reinforced the belief...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in AliCloud IoT Platform

AliCloud IoT Platform is a cloud service platform for the IoT field, which communicates through mainstream IoT protocols e.g., MQTT, allowing IoT projects to be built between smart devices and the cloud. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in the AliCloud IoT platform, which can be...

How to Provide Secure Access to AWS Workloads

In the last two posts, we covered the security fundamentals to migrate to the Cloud and the 10 best practices to secure workloads. In this third post, we will talk about securing access to your AWS workloads. To Live Happy, Live Hidden In a traditional model, you need to somehow open your cloud...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

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, learn about continuing cybersecurity attacks targeting small governments. Also, read how XDR, Trend Micro’s newest solution, is more...

From On-Prem to Cloud: The Complete AWS Security Checklist

This complete AWS cloud auditing security checklist outlines what it takes to protect sensitive data center security & intellectual property when securing an organization’s cloud deployment...

Top 10 Practices for Securing Cloud Workloads

Public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficienc...

What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack

On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown "zero-day" flaw, or an "insider" attack in which the accus...

Security Fundamentals Are Key To Successful Cloud Migration

Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch & the associated risk to someone else by using their cloud security service. While patching definitely falls into the security fundamentals category it remains as relevant as ever...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #9 and #10

With Black Hat USA 2019 now in progress, we wrap up this blog series with our final two session recommendations: Attacking and Defending the Microsoft Cloud and Practical Approach to Automate the Discovery and Eradication of Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities at Scale. Attacking and Defending t...

Cloud Security Concerns Loom for 93% of Businesses Adopting Apps and BYOD

With the increasing popularity of bring-your-own-device BYOD policies and public cloud offerings, enterprises are moving from on-premises applications to cloud apps – but they still lack faith in cloud security. A recent July Bitglass study found that 67 percent of respondents believe cloud apps...

New Azure Marketplace Pay-As-You-Go Billing for Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service

Cloud adoption continues to rise as organizations reduce their data center footprint, look to cloud native technologies to improve their application design and output, and strive to improve scalability and management of resources and systems. In a recent survey conducted by analyst firm ESG, 87% ...

Cloud Security Audit - A Command Line Security Audit Tool For Amazon Web Services

A command line security audit tool for Amazon Web Services About Cloud Security Audit is a command line tool that scans for vulnerabilities in your AWS Account. In easy way you will be able to identify unsecure parts of your infrastructure and prepare your AWS account for security audit...

Beers with Talos Ep. #56 - Flatlined: Breach to Bankrupt

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 56 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded 6/24/19 - Back in the studio for EP 56 and off the top, Matt got some new audio toy for his side hustle as a Twitch star...

AWS re:Inforce 2019 re:Cap

The inaugural AWS Cloud security conference—AWS re:Inforce—was held in Boston this week. Well over 8,000 attendees descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for two days jammed packed with security education and cloud content. This was a very interesting conference because the...