cloud computing
Maintaining consistent security in diverse cloud infrastructures
As cloud infrastructures become increasingly API-driven and dynamically spread across expansive attack surfaces, achieving clarity proves difficult. Compounding this challenge …
Attackers can turn AWS SSM agents into remote access trojans
Mitiga researchers have documented a new post-exploitation technique attackers can use to gain persistent remote access to AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (virtual …
How CISOs navigate security and compliance in a multi-cloud world
Due to the increasing importance of multi-cloud and the intricate nature of cloud infrastructure, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the various cloud workloads …
Organizations face an uphill battle to keep their sensitive data secure
On average, organizations store 61% of their sensitive data in the cloud, and most have experienced at least one cybersecurity breach (90%), threat (89%) and/or theft of data …
Application and cloud security is a shared responsibility
Cloud environments and application connectivity have become a critical part of many organizations’ digital transformation initiatives. In fact, nearly 40% of North American …
Hybrid cloud storage security challenges
Companies are challenged with more complex hybrid IT environments. They are raising budgets to fend off cyberattacks and keep up as production environments continue to …
Rackspace Hosted Exchange outage was caused by ransomware
Rackspace has finally confirmed the cause of the ongoing outage of its Hosted Exchange service: it’s ransomware. “As you know, on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, we …
Rackspace Hosted Exchange service outage caused by security incident
Cloud computing company Rackspace has suffered a security breach that has resulted in a still ongoing outage of their Hosted Exchange environment. “In order to best …
Top 4 priorities for cloud data protection
Recent BigID research found that 86% of organizations use multiple cloud platforms to store their data- across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. As the reliance on cloud services …
Increased security driving investments in cloud computing
Aptum has announced a report which examines the complexities inherent in hybrid cloud environments and their implications on security, data governance, compliance and disaster …
DaaS might be the future of work
The move to hybrid work is on. And to support and accelerate it, IT executives are counting on Desktop as a Service (DaaS). According to the results of a Pulse survey …
Malicious actors targeting the cloud for cryptocurrency-mining activities
Trend Micro announced a report revealing a fierce, hour-by-hour battle for resources among malicious cryptocurrency mining groups. “Just a few hours of compromise could …
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