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Elastic released the 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report, detailing the evolving nature of cybersecurity threats, as well as the increased sophistication of cloud and endpoint-related attacks. 33% of attacks in the cloud leverage credential access, indicating that users often overestimate the security of their cloud environments and consequently fail to configure and protect them adequately.

In this interview for Help Net Security, Mark Ruchie, CISO at Entrust, talks about cloud security and how zero trust should be implemented to guarantee overall cloud protection. Generally speaking, the best way for an organization to approach zero trust is for security teams to take the mindset that the network is already compromised and develop security protocols from there.

Although companies are spending billions on preventative security measures, attacks are a common occurrence. Business continuity requires enterprises to go beyond prevention and prioritize a strategic recovery plan.

According to a recent Node4 report, IT managers have a generally positive view of public cloud platforms. In this Help Net Security video, Andrew Slater, Practice Director - Cloud at Node4, talks about how organizations have encountered challenges in getting the final 20-30% of their production workloads into public cloud environments and addresses the cybersecurity implications.

Canalys Forums APAC Canalys CEO Steve Brazier has proposed that cloud vendors should have similar accountability to credit card companies when accounts are hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency. "They can't afford to provide the computing power. But they can hack the public clouds," Brazier told the Canalys Forums APAC 2022 event.

"As cybersecurity threats continue to increase, organizations must look beyond traditional backup services and build a purposeful approach that best suits their business needs and cloud strategy. This survey shows that workloads continue to fluidly move from data centers to clouds and back again, as well as from one cloud to another - creating even more complexity in data protection strategy. The results of this survey show that while modern IT enterprises have made significant strides in cloud and data protection, there is still work to be done." 2023 cloud protection trends Software as a service 90% of organizations realize they need to back up Microsoft 365.

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Security teams are in charge of their company's most important asset - data. Their mission is to make sure they discover and remediate all of the data-related risks and keep up with the frequent changes that can affect their sensitive data.

' It's a quotation which could easily be applied to the rapid growth of cloud application and service provision, and the accompanying threats to cyber security which have expanded in parallel. If this incurs a sense of anxiety, fear not! Once identified, any cyber threat can be prevented from causing too much damage.

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 continues to scale and malicious actors continue to evolve, it's critical to get a hold of your data wherever it exists in the cloud. In this Help Net Security video, Dimitri Sirota, CEO at BigID, discusses how companies are unprepared to deal with the unique challenges of securing data in the cloud.