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One popular use of JSON is the JWT system, which isn't pronounced jer-witt, as it is written, but jot, an English word that is sometimes used to refer the little dot we write above above an i or j, and that refers to a tiny but potentially important detail. Loosely speaking, a JWT is a blob of JavaScript that is used by many cloud services as a service access token.
According to analysis by cloud security startup Wiz and EY, 93 percent of cloud environments were vulnerable to the Log4Shell vulnerability. It's a challenge that existing tools struggle with, argues Wiz product vice president Yinon Costica, who points out that these have been adapted ad-hoc from an established computing model not built with cloud security in mind.
"Several years ago in cybersecurity, companies realized that the single greatest threat vector was the individual end user. So, the focus shifted from perimeter and end-point security to automatically applying security at the user level," said Jeff Kukowski, CEO of CloudBolt. "I think this new report reveals a similar parallel in cloud security. Macro solutions that don't make cloud security automatic at the individual, cloud-provisioning 'moment of truth' create lots of opportunity for exposure and leave enterprises only 'somewhat, sometimes' secure. I predict 2023 will be the year we see significantly more focus on shoring up these current cloud security shortfalls. It's a very solvable problem when you apply the right approaches," Kukowski continued.
Security benefits of on-premises networks Monitoring and on-site staff mitigate security risks. "On-premises security deals with deploying tools that require all network traffic to be routed via the physical security appliances residing on the network premises, so it can be monitored and analyzed to mitigate security risks," Thangaraj said.
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.
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Microsoft is rolling out its usual host of cloud security features and services at this week's Ignite 2022 conference, with the focus on what's happening in and outside the firewall. Protecting against sensitive information being shared by teams is also a theme, according to the show briefing, although some of the newly-announced security features have been previewed with Redmond Microsoft 365 E5 license users.