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A new analysis of security risks in cloud deployments found that companies are facing an increased risk of more advanced attacks and struggling to control managed infrastructure options. The Cloud Cyber Resilience Report from Accurics describes how insecure defaults and identity management are causing new problems.
TechRepublic's cheat sheet about LastPass is a quick introduction to this password management app, as well as a "Living" guide that will be revised periodically as new updates and versions are released. Executive summaryWhat is LastPass? LastPass is a robust password management tool available on most computing platforms and as a browser plugin.
Strata Identity, a Boulder, Colo.-based startup that is on a mission to help unify on-premises and cloud-based authentication and access systems for multi-cloud environments, today announced that it has raised $11 million through a Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with support from ForgePoint Capital. With businesses increasingly using multiple cloud providers, managing identity and security policies across various cloud platforms can be challenging.
France's Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information, the nation's cyber-security agency, has identified a years-long campaign to infiltrate IT monitoring platform Centreon. Centreon claimed that Centreon is a spiffing open-source IT monitoring tool.
Actiphy announces the release of the next generation of ActiveVisor, a centralized management solution for ActiveImage Protector backup clients, with many new features including enhanced integration with Microsoft's Active Directory Services. ActiveVisor is a centralized backup management console for ActiveImage Protector backup clients providing a visual representation of statistical data, real-time monitoring of backup status and storage space availability, and deploy agents, backup tasks, and schedules.
WatchGuard has announced new capabilities that make WatchGuard Cloud the ideal security platform for managed service providers. "Our vision for WatchGuard Cloud has always been to build a powerful, cloud-hosted security platform that directly supports the way MSPs do business and simplifies every aspect of security delivery for our partners," said Andrew Young, senior vice president of product management at WatchGuard.
Arlington, Va.-based data privacy management company WireWheel on Wednesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round. WireWheel has developed a SaaS privacy platform that can be used by organizations of all sizes.
Despite all of this, less than 20% of 2020 security budgets were spent on Insider Risk - and more than half of organizations don't have a formal Insider Risk response plan in place. Forrester predicts that 1 in 3 data breaches in 2021 will stem from insiders, and the Code42 2021 DER found that 6 out of 10 IT security leaders believe insider threats will increase, or increase significantly, over the next two years.
Survey respondents were asked to rate 36 macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks, including new risks that emerged this year related to the pandemic and social justice. "More than ever, 2020 demonstrated that organizations can no longer afford a reactive approach to risk management. Pandemic risk loomed on the horizon for a long time - it was a matter of 'when,' not 'if,'" said Jim DeLoach, a Protiviti managing director.
Your company's vendor management program may not be what you need to get the most out of your cybersecurity vendors, so I'll focus on a Cyber Vendor Optimization Strategy. Depending on which vendor you're dealing with, what you share about your challenges and how you leverage the vendor could be completely different things.