More organizations are deploying single sign-on mechanisms when they move to software-as-a-service applications to help enhance authentication and control access, says Moshe Ferber, chairman of the Israeli chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance.
The 2019 Internet Security Threat Report takes a deep dive into insights from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN), revealing the latest trends in cyber security attacks including ransomware, formjacking, cloud security and mobile threats.
Through GIN, Symantec has established the largest civilian threat...
Visibility, or a lack thereof, continues to challenge organizations as they attempt to protect their businesses by knowing which systems, applications and data they have, says AlgoSec's Jeffrey Starr. He discusses how centralized visibility, control and automation can help.
Digital transformation impacts the way that organizations deal with cybersecurity risk, says Tim Wilkinson of Avast Business, who provides advice on how to place security at the center of the transformation.
Many organizations struggle to understand what cloud assets they actually have. Sam Curcuruto of Expanse explains the role cloud governance plays in gaining better clarity and control.
Britain's biggest businesses continue to inappropriately expose servers and services to the internet, putting the organizations and data at risk, according to a study by Rapid7. Tod Beardsley describes the findings, including a widespread lack of phishing defenses as well as cloud misconfigurations.
A security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained 8.4 TB of email metadata. While it's not clear if anyone accessed the data, an attacker could have seen all email being sent or received by a specific person.
Migrating from on-premises data security to the cloud and then embedding security in the application development process are common challenges for enterprises. Dan Fitzgerald, a CISO at the consultancy McKinsey & Co., shares insights on how to make these transitions.
Newly discovered microarchitectural data sampling flaws in Intel processors - collectively dubbed "ZombieLoad" - could be exploited to steal private data from PCs and servers, including shared cloud environments. Intel, Microsoft, Apple and others have begun to ship patches designed to help mitigate the problems.
While cloud computing offers many advantages, a major disadvantage has been security, because data physically resides with the cloud service provider (CSP) and out of the direct control of the owner of the data. For enterprises that elect to use encryption to protect their data, securing their encryption keys is of...
Attackers exploiting a buffer overflow in WhatsApp's signaling software to automatically infect devices with malware - without users even having to answer their phone - and then alter call logs to hide attack traces is "a bit of a nightmare scenario," says cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward.
Stories, practical experiences, anecdotes and a bit of humor about creating and managing cloud security programs and the journey to devsecops. This will be an interactive session.
The session will cover:
Key components of cloud security programs and the basics of devsecops
Real world challenges and practical...
The modern data centre is increasingly a heterogeneous mix of environments and technologies that combine physical servers, virtual machines and containers in on-premises facilities, private clouds and public cloud IaaS providers. Organizations are constantly shifting data and workloads among them as traffic levels and...
With IT environments more complex and dynamic than ever, micro-segmentation is the clear choice for isolating communication flows and hardening your security posture. The right provider should help you accurately visualise and map all of your application flows and dependencies and then enable micro-segmentation...
As banking firms evolve their business models to fight obsoletion and stay competitive in a rapidly changing space - digital transformation initiatives are on everyone's priority list. According to Forrester (source: The Path To Digital Transformation In High Speed Financial Services, December 2016) financial services...
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