Security News

Box announced new and upcoming integrations with Microsoft 365 to make it easier for customers to securely work in the cloud. "Tens of thousands of enterprises globally are using Box and Microsoft together to securely power the way they work from anywhere," said Varun Parmar, Chief Product Officer at Box.

Find out why cloud computing is leading IT security pros to reevaluate their in-house cybersecurity practices as well as resources provided by managed service providers. "As microprocessor speeds have increased, so has memory density and speed," wrote Tom Kulik, an intellectual property & information technology partner at Scheef & Stone, LLP., in his Above the Law article Hey, You, Get Off Of My Cloud: Cybersecurity Considerations For Managed Service Providers.

Continued adoption of cloud computing could prevent the emission of more than 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from 2021 through 2024, a forecast from IDC shows. The forecast uses data on server distribution and cloud and on-premises software use along with third-party information on datacenter power usage, CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour, and emission comparisons of cloud and non-cloud datacenters.

Gartner expects IT security to move into the cloud as well. Initial concerns regarding data security and data sovereignty slowed the acceptance of cloud offerings in the first place.

Most of the cyberattacks on cloud environments have been due to compromised credentials, says Centrify. Survey results released Wednesday by security firm Centrify show how cloud environments can be vulnerable, while its CEO offers advice for protecting your cloud-based assets.

Aqua Security announced that its cloud native security platform now protects containers and Virtual Machine workloads at runtime on Arm-powered devices. This enables Aqua customers to take advantage of the high density and cost-effectiveness provided by Arm-powered hosts and devices across cloud infrastructure, edge and IoT platforms, including the new AWS Graviton2 instances from Amazon Web Services.

Knoa announced the availability of its UEM product for Oracle Cloud applications. Knoa UEM for Oracle Cloud enables visibility into employee interactions with the Oracle Cloud applications, user adoption during a new rollout, the level of performance delivered to the end-user, the locations of process bottlenecks and the cause of user experience issues with the software.

VMware announced innovations across its cloud management portfolio spanning CloudHealth by VMware and VMware vRealize Cloud Management on-premises and software as a service offerings. "VMware makes this complexity of managing clouds invisible. By providing consistent costing, security, governance, operations and service automation across clouds, VMware enables customers to achieve higher application and business agility."

Thales announces a new data protection capability for Microsoft customers to benefit from the power of the full range of Microsoft 365 applications while protecting sensitive data in the cloud and meeting major data privacy regulations and requirements. Designed for companies that operate in highly-regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare, they can now leverage Thales Luna Hardware Security Modules with Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and comply with regulations such as the EU GDPR, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the recommendations from the European Data Protection Board following the Schrems II ruling.

Accurics launched a channel program designed for partners who share a developer-first approach to cloud security, in tune with the era of Infrastructure as Code. As new cloud native technologies accelerate innovation, bringing both benefits and risk, the Accurics channel program empowers partner organizations to help clients codify security throughout the development lifecycle, facilitating self-healing cloud native infrastructure and ensuring end-to-end security in all cloud applications.