Five game-changing factors for companies dealing with ransomware attacks
Continual innovation and growing sophistication of cloud services is giving organizations clear and practical routes to deal with ransomware attacks. The latest cloud-based …
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WFH is here to stay: Five tactics to improve security for remote teams
When the pandemic took hold, most companies were forced to turn their employees into a fully operational remote workforce within the span of one week. And while some …
Image encryption technique could keep photos safe on popular cloud photo services
The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering …
Unprotected CVS database exposed sensitive customer searches
Researchers have discovered an unprotected, exposed online database with over a billion records belonging to American healthcare company CVS Health. The discovery, made by …
Threat actors thriving on the fear and uncertainty of remote workforces
The pandemic’s work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organizations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals …
Open-source tool BlobHunter helps pinpoint public Azure blobs that might contain sensitive files
CyberArk researchers have released BlobHunter, an open-source tool organizations can use to discover Azure blobs containing sensitive files they have inadvertently made …
Malware incidents on remote devices increase
52% of organizations experienced a malware incident on remote devices in 2020, up from 37% in 2019, a Wandera report reveals. Of devices compromised by malware in 2020, 37% …
The need for zero trust security a certainty for an uncertain 2021
In this article I’ll consider next year’s data security landscape with a focus on the two key issues you need to have on your planning agenda. Of course, how the pandemic …
New NIST guide helps healthcare orgs securely deploy PACS
Every so often, security researchers discover confidential medical images left exposed online. To help healthcare organizations prevent this from happening in the future, NIST …
Growth of cloud-native apps and containerization to define 2021
Scality announced its data storage predictions for 2021, focusing on the rapid growth rate of cloud-native apps and containerization. According to IDC, by 2023, over 500 …
How do I select a data storage solution for my business?
We live in the age of data. We are constantly producing it, analyzing it, figuring out how to store and protect it, and, hopefully, using it to refine business practices. …
AWS adds new S3 security and access control features
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available three new S3 (Simple Storage Service) security and access control features: Object Ownership Bucket Owner Condition Copy API via …
