Security News

Oracle offers pre-built tools to automate threat response and reduce customers’ cloud security risk
2020-09-16 01:30

With these capabilities, Oracle is the only cloud service provider to offer a cloud security posture management dashboard at no additional cost, with numerous pre-built tools that automate response to reduce customer risk quickly and efficiently. Oracle Maximum Security Zones and Oracle Cloud Guard embed decades of enterprise security expertise and best practices into the Oracle public cloud in an autonomous fashion, accelerating customers' ability to ramp up to their cloud estate securely from inception.

Five critical cloud security challenges and how to overcome them
2020-08-31 05:00

You need to recognize the most critical cloud security challenges and develop a strategy for minimizing these risks. With that in mind, let's dive into the five most pressing cloud security challenges faced by modern organizations.

Saviynt converges PAM, IGA, and cloud security technologies in a single platform
2020-08-19 01:00

The latest release includes considerable security improvements to their Cloud PAM application, bolstering one of the only solutions to converge Identity Governance, Application Governance-Risk Management-and Compliance, and Privileged Access Management into a unified Identity Platform built for the cloud. The latest release of Saviynt's Cloud PAM provides improved governance, analytics, and access to privileged assets across enterprise applications and platforms including Google Cloud Platform.

Trend Micro integrates with AWS to enhance agility and automation in cloud security
2020-08-14 00:00

Trend Micro has demonstrated the strength of its collaboration with AWS since 2012 with a deep understanding of customer use cases and by integrating with leading AWS security services at launch. Most recently, Trend Micro Cloud One offerings have been natively integrated with AWS Control Tower and AWS Systems Manager Distributor.

SecurityWeek to Host Virtual Cloud Security Summit on August 13, 2020
2020-08-12 16:17

SecurityWeek will host its 2020 Cloud Security Summit virtual event on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Through a fully immersive virtual environment, attendees will be able to interact with leading solution providers and other end users tasked with securing various cloud environments and services.

SecurityWeek to Host Cloud Security Summit Virtual Event on August 13, 2020
2020-08-12 12:18

SecurityWeek will host its 2020 Cloud Security Summit virtual eventon Thursday, August 13, 2020.

Half of IT teams can’t fully utilize cloud security solutions due to understaffing
2020-08-12 03:30

There are unrealized gaps between the rate of implementation or operation and the effective use of cloud security access brokers within the enterprise, according to a global Cloud Security Alliance survey of more than 200 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations. "CASB solutions have been underutilized on all the pillars but in particular on the compliance, data security, and threat protection capabilities within the service," said Hillary Baron, lead author and research analyst, Cloud Security Alliance.

Holding public cloud security to account
2020-08-10 15:15

The public cloud provides great flexibility and cost management for organizations, but what about security?

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack
2020-08-07 01:22

Capital One must pay a trivial $80m fine for its shoddy public cloud security - yes, the US banking giant that was hacked last year by a miscreant who stole personal information on 106 million credit-card applicants in America and Canada. "The OCC took these actions based on the bank's failure to establish effective risk assessment processes prior to migrating significant information technology operations to the public cloud environment and the bank's failure to correct the deficiencies in a timely manner," the watchdog said in a statement on Thursday.

Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform extends security observability to AWS Fargate tasks
2020-08-04 23:45

Extending the observability provided by the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform to AWS Fargate tasks can help Threat Stack customers detect threats and maintain compliance across all areas of their cloud infrastructure. The Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform collects and correlates security telemetry from the cloud management console, host, containers, orchestration, managed container services and applications, giving Threat Stack customers a view into their entire cloud environment.