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As of early 2020, a mere 45% of IT infrastructure is public cloud-based, which means the next five years are going to be huge for cloud migrations from on-site servers-and potentially the private cloud as well. Rapid migration to the public cloud may not continue if IT professionals' biggest cloud concern isn't addressed: Security, which 70% cited as a reason their organization hasn't already adopted public cloud.
"We are seeing increasingly complex threat techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud command and control and ultimately cloud data exfiltration," said Ray Canzanese, Threat Research Director at Netskope. "Our research shows the sophistication and scale of the cloud enabled kill chain increasing, requiring security defenses that understand thousands of cloud apps to keep pace with attackers and block cloud threats. For these reasons, any enterprise using the cloud needs to modernize and extend their security architectures."
Web attacks originating from the public cloud saw a 16% spike from November to December 2019. AWS was the top source of attacks, responsible for 94% of all web attacks coming from public clouds.
Trustwave unveiled a new portfolio of consulting and managed security services for Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, the industry's most comprehensive cloud native security platform designed to govern access, protect data and secure applications. "Prisma Cloud, in combination with managed security services from partners like Trustwave, gives enterprises powerful options for helping ensure their cloud footprint remains secure," said Karl Soderlund, senior vice president of worldwide channel sales at Palo Alto Networks.
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, expanded their ClearDATA Comply Software as a Service compliance management product to include Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services. The solution automatically configures over 70 controls across 32 of the most commonly used Azure services for sensitive patient data in healthcare including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning as well as PaaS based services like Azure SQL. ClearDATA is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has offered managed security, compliance and privacy solutions on Microsoft Azure since 2015.
Infoblox, the market leader in next-level networking and DDI services, and Nutanix announced that Infoblox Core DDI and Cloud Platform appliance products, which are part of the Nutanix Elevate Program, have been certified as Nutanix Ready. Infoblox will support its customers with the integration of Nutanix and Infoblox NIOS DNS, DHCP, IPAM solutions, including NIOS virtual appliances running on Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Calm support for orchestrated DNS/IPAM workflow.
Researchers from the cloud security company DivvyCloud found that breaches caused by cloud misconfigurations cost companies worldwide an estimated $5 trillion in 2018 and 2019. In the "2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report," DivvyCloud researchers studied all of the data breaches publicly reported between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2019 across the globe, finding that 196 separate data breaches were identified as having been definitively caused primarily by cloud misconfigurations.
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Nearly 33.4 billion records were exposed in breaches due to cloud misconfigurations in 2018 and 2019, amounting to nearly $5 trillion in costs to enterprises globally, according to DivvyCloud research. Year over year from 2018 to 2019, the number of records exposed by cloud misconfigurations rose by 80%, as did the total cost to companies associated with those lost records.