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Numerous publicly accessible Salesforce Communities are misconfigured and could expose sensitive information, says research published today. A Salesforce Community site lets customers and partners interface with a Salesforce instance from outside an organization. For example, they can open support tickets, ask questions, manage their subscriptions and more. According to Varonis, anonymous users can “query objects that contain sensitive information such as customer lists, support cases and employee email addresses.” The research team explains in a…

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled the first five tech companies that will take part in its new startup program. The NCSC For Startups initiative, first announced in June, will support innovative cybersecurity firms to develop products that will help protect critical areas of the UK’s economy and society from online harms. The NCSC is collaborating with innovation company Plexal to run the program. It is the successor to the highly successful NCSC Cyber Accelerator initiative, which helped more…

Chinese espionage group UNC215 leveraged remote desktop protocols (RDP) to access an Israeli government network using stolen credentials from trusted third parties, according to research published today. Mandiant, part of cybersecurity firm FireEye, analyzed data gathered from their telemetry and the information shared by Israeli entities in collaboration with the authorities. The data revealed multiple concurrent operations against Israeli government institutions, IT providers and telecommunications entities beginning in January 2019. FireEye has published the findings…

Bola Rotibi, Research Director of Software Development at CCS Insight published an article titled “The Keys that Unlock Multi-cloud Success.” Below is an excerpt, published with permission. How VMware Cloud customers are achieving multicloud excellence Understanding the importance of good support should be the first step to any multicloud journey. There are four considerations that companies embarking on a multicloud strategy shouldn’t ignore. The first is that cloud adoption is on the rise, accelerated by…

Bola Rotibi, Research Director of Software Development at CCS Insight published an article titled “The Keys that Unlock Multi-cloud Success.” Below is an excerpt, published with permission. How VMware Cloud customers are achieving multicloud excellence Understanding the importance of good support should be the first step to any multicloud journey. There are four considerations that companies embarking on a multicloud strategy shouldn’t ignore. The first is that cloud adoption is on the rise, accelerated by…

Every organization has data moving to the multi-cloud; digital transformation is occurring rapidly, is here to stay, and is impacting every major industry.  Organizations are working hard to adopt Zero Trust architectures as their critical information, trade secrets, and business applications are no longer stored in a single datacenter or location. As a result, there is a rapid shift to cloud resources to support dynamic mission requirements, and the new perimeter to defend is data. …