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So how do we explain the ever-increasing number of data breaches? According to Cloud Security Risks & How to Mitigate Them.Insufficient access management and account hijacking.
While many companies are beginning to migrate security tools to the cloud, a significant number have concerns, a survey by Exabeam reveals. Typically, organizations migrate security tools to the cloud to minimize the resources and overhead associated with owning and maintaining on-premises equipment and software.
Using Cloud Analyzer, any company can, for the first time, have visibility and recommendations that automate performance and availability and minimize costs across all their cloud accounts. "Using machine learning algorithms, automation, and now with broader visibility into spend and usage - Cloud Analyzer is able to free up CloudOps teams to deploy applications fast, while maintaining uptime at lowest possible cloud infrastructure costs."
InterVision, a leading IT strategic service provider and Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, has officially announced AWS Managed Services by InterVision to help enterprise IT teams accelerate cloud adoption, lower operational costs, and mitigate security and compliance risk. Built on the foundational infrastructure, tools, and automation of AWS Managed Services, this service is designed to provide enhanced operational standards driven by AWS best practices.
Sysdig, the secure DevOps leader, announced cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility. Sysdig is the only enterprise monitoring solution to be fully compatible with Prometheus.
A leader in search and AI-driven analytics announced a deepening of its partnership with Google Cloud to empower enterprises with cloud analytics. A key development of this expanded relationship includes the launch of Embrace for Google Cloud, which enables enterprises to run search and AI-driven analytics directly in Google BigQuery, without moving or caching any data.
Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that it has expanded the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. By joining the Bandwidth Alliance, customers using both Alibaba Cloud Object Storage, and Cloudflare products, will have their data egress fees waived outside mainland China if OSS products are purchased from alibabacloud.com.
To ease some of the burden, many organizations have started migrating their security tools to the cloud. Based on a survey of 130 security practitioners, Exabeam's report found that 52% of the respondents started moving to cloud-based security products during or before 2018.
"Public clouds are, by and large, homogeneous infrastructures with embedded monitoring capabilities that are ubiquitous and have centralized security administration and threat remediation tools built on top," Konstantas told Help Net Security. "Automation really is central to effective cloud security. Just take the example of data and consider the volume of data flowing into cloud hosted data bases and data warehouses. Classifying the data, identifying PII, PHI, credit cards etc., flagging overly permissioned access, and requiring additional authorization for data removal - all these things have to be automated. Even the remediation, or prevention of access needs to be automated," she noted.
"Panorays CTO Demi Ben-Ari explains,"Panorays' unique 360-degree rating approach offers cloud provider consumers full visibility into the security posture of their providers. The Panorays partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance enables companies to quickly and easily ascertain if their cloud provider complies with standard security regulations.