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Securing The Cloud: Cyber Risks And Best Practices You Need To Keep In Mind

Private businesses and government organizations are moving large parts of their infrastructure and services to the cloud. However, many don’t address cyber risks properly. Many organizations struggle to identify security risks when it comes to their infrastructure because they have no precise understanding of the model of the cloud services they are using or their cybersecurity implications. In order to maximize cloud security across an organization, it is essential to understand both. To start, let’s discuss the three main models of cloud services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Infrastructure-as-a-Service In the IaaS model, businesses rent or lease servers for…
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How To Prevent Corporate Data Leaks In The Cloud

Misconfigurations of cloud resources can lead to various security incidents and ultimately cost your organization dearly. Here’s what you can do to prevent cloud configuration conundrums. Forget shadowy attackers deploying bespoke zero-day exploits from afar. A risk that is far more real for organizations as they embark on ambitious digital transformation projects is human error. In fact, “miscellaneous errors” accounted for 17% of data breaches last year, according to Verizon. When it comes to the cloud, there’s one particular trend that stands out above all others: misconfiguration. It’s responsible for the leaks of billions of records every year and remains a major threat to corporate…
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VMware Makes Comprehensive Workload And Network Security More Economical and Easier To Operate Inside Data Centers And Clouds

VMware, Inc., a leading innovator in enterprise software, announced new innovations to advance the company’s strategy to make security intrinsic to the digital enterprise. Intrinsic security makes protecting critical applications and data more automated, proactive and pervasive across the entire distributed enterprise. Announcements, made at RSA Conference 2020, include: New VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation, which will enable customers to replace legacy security solutions and deliver unified protection across private and public clouds Advancements to the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, which including automated correlation with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and upcoming prevention coverage for Linux machines New VMware Secure…
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4 Open Source Cloud Security Tools

If your day-to-day as a developer, system administrator, full-stack engineer, or site reliability engineer involves Git pushes, commits, and pulls to and from GitHub and deployments to Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is a persistent concern. Fortunately, open source tools are available to help your team avoid common mistakes that could cost your organization thousands of dollars. This article describes four open source tools that can help improve your security practices when you’re developing on GitHub and AWS. Also, in the spirit of open source, I’ve joined forces with three security experts—Travis McPeak, senior cloud security engineer at Netflix; Rich Monk,…
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