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How to use shadow IT discovery in Microsoft Cloud App Security to help remote workers stay secure and save bandwidth. Even more than in an office, the proliferation of cloud apps can turn into a shadow IT security worry - and depending on how access to company data is set up, it might impact home internet bandwidth.

Security is primarily your responsibility – with help from the cloud provider.

Most cloud services keep their DNS cache times, known in the jargon as TTLs or time-to-live entries, pretty small these days in order to help their services adapt more quickly to changes in network load. Hacking your DNS entries is not quite as good a result for the crooks as taking over your actual web server - they won't have your web certificate to authenticate HTTPS traffic, and they'd need to clone a huge amount of your site to make a realistic facsimile - but it's still extremely dangerous, and potentially very damaging for your brand. In the cases tracked by Edwards, it seems that a bunch of crooks have been keeping their eyes on unused Azure server names that still have trusted DNS records referring to them, and reviving those defunct server names to produce believable URLs for scams and malware campaigns.

Zettaset announced the availability of its encryption solutions on VMware Cloud Marketplace. Zettaset XCrypt Kubernetes & Container Encryption and XCrypt Virtual Key Manager and Data Encryption Solutions are now accessible for VMware customers deploying Kubernetes and container environments running on vSphere.

Fueled by skyrocketing cloud adoption, increasing security threats and the need to optimize IT budgets, Snow started the year with 40% year-over-year growth in total ACV bookings driven by 115% growth in subscription ACV bookings. "As organizations accelerate their reliance on cloud, complex hybrid environments are the new reality for many IT leaders, and Snow sits at the nexus of this transformation," said Vishal Rao, President and Chief Executive Officer at Snow.

Aviatrix, the cloud network platform, announced the sixth major release of its software designed for enterprises transforming their IT infrastructure to public cloud. "We knew from previous experience that the transit networking services offered by the cloud service providers did not consistently offer both the advanced networking and security controls we needed or the ability to support the multi-cloud network architecture we envisioned. Aviatrix delivered both and their single Terraform provider made it easy to fit Aviatrix software into our 'automate everything' culture and operational processes."

eSentire announces its ninth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, sustained by its industry-defining, cloud-native Atlas platform. During a time of global crisis and rapid shift to highly distributed workforces and cloud-based workloads, the Atlas platform enabled rapid onboarding of record numbers of new customers while delivering multiple new services central to driving eSentire's industry-leading NPS score of 72 percent and net customer retention of over 116 percent.

The new results which were taken after COVID-19 took hold, show that 88% of those surveyed cite the pandemic as a reason to migrate security to the cloud. Security is still a concern, when it comes to cloud-based security platforms.

The Cloud Security Alliance and the International Systems Security Association announced that the two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a variety of initiatives with the goal of both supporting and strengthening the cybersecurity profession. "Our partnership with ISSA heralds an exciting opportunity for both organizations to collaborate and bring our strengths and unique sets of expertise to the table to benefit cloud and cybersecurity professionals across the spectrum," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and CEO, Cloud Security Alliance.

Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 2.2% in the first quarter of 2020 while investments in traditional, non-cloud, infrastructure plunged 16.3% year over year, according to IDC. Pandemic as the major factor driving infrastructure spending. For the full year, investments in cloud IT infrastructure will surpass spending on non-cloud infrastructure and reach $69.5 billion or 54.2% of the overall IT infrastructure spend.