PCI Compliance Requirements: Remove Network Security Hurdles

PCI Compliance Requirements: Remove Network Security Hurdles

Payment card industry (PCI) compliance is a set of rules that ensures the safety of a customer’s credit card information. All businesses that receive, store, or transfer credit card information must maintain a secure environment. Major card companies—including AMEX, MasterCard, Visa, JCB, and Discover—established the Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council (PCI SSC) to develop and manage payment card security. The SSC has many standards and supporting materials, like frameworks, tools, and resources to help…

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How a Cloud Security Broker Reduces SaaS App Risks

How a Cloud Security Broker Reduces SaaS App Risks

Read: Data exposure from SaaS and cloud applications is an increasing risk factor facing businesses today. Depending on where your organization is along its digital transformation, multi-cloud environments and cloud applications are likely being used for critical business operations. There are good reasons to move to SaaS apps, such as their simplicity, reduction of administration, and cost reductions. Since the advent of cloud computing, applications like Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and Box™ have made themselves indispensable…

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Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

An overview of how ngrok, a cloud tunnelling service, works. What’s at risk With access to a developer’s machine, cybercriminals can take advantage of local admin privileges or the shared work-in-progress to seed malware. They can also use hijacked credentials to get into the organization’s cloud dev environment or other systems, potentially accessing sensitive information or injecting vulnerabilities into application source code and pipelines. These kinds of breaches are hard to detect because the associated…

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Solve the Cloud-Native App Security Puzzle with CNAPP

Solve the Cloud-Native App Security Puzzle with CNAPP

Solve the Cloud-Native App Security Puzzle with CNAPP Cloud Native Explore the value of integrating cloud-native application protection into security and development. By: Trend Micro October 20, 2022 Read time:  ( words) There are a lot of pieces in the cloud security puzzle, and sometimes it can seem like it’s not clear how they fit in the big picture. Think cloud access security brokers (CASBs). Or cloud workload protection platforms (CWPPs). Or cloud security posture…

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Ransomware Insurance Security Requirement Strategies

Ransomware Insurance Security Requirement Strategies

A cyber insurance policy is a necessary element in a company’s risk mitigation strategy. However, obtaining/renewing a policy is becoming more difficult, and premiums have drastically increased. Direct-written premiums increased by 92% in 2021 according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The primary reason for the hardening of the cyber insurance market? Ransomware. Since ransomware accounts for 75% of all insurance claims, premiums are directly correlated with the 148% increase in attacks through Q3…

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Software Patch Management Policy Best Practices for Large Orgs

Software Patch Management Policy Best Practices for Large Orgs

Organizations should start by only focusing on the bugs relevant to the application systems they use in-house. From that point, security teams can work to identify which of those bugs are being actively exploited and which are part of the business’s critical infrastructure. These are the key vulnerabilities to hone in on – the ones that could pose significant harm to your organization. The next is to identify those applications and/or operating systems that have…

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Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

To modernize your cybersecurity strategy, you must understand the imminent risks. Our Midyear Roundup Report helps CISOs and security leads anticipate what’s next, enabling a stronger cyber defense strategy to recognize, assess, and mitigate cyber threats. Trend Micro Midyear 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup Report Each summer, Trend Micro analyzes and correlates attack surface intelligence from approximately 400,000 commercial customers and 20 million consumer customers, alongside data lakes and partnering with third-party research firms. We also review…

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How Will the Metaverse Affect Cloud Security?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Cloud Security?

An immersive digital world enabled by a range of technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), blockchain, and virtual and augmented reality, the metaverse allows us to see and interact with objects and people. This virtual environment is enhanced by photorealistic avatars that can reproduce your real body through wearable sensors that measure your movements and immersive smart glasses that enable virtual and augmented reality. With these technologies, what you do in the real world…

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Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices for Company Buy-In

Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices for Company Buy-In

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 Series “However good a drug is, it is no good if people don’t take it or take it badly“ Dr. Anthony Fauci What’s the deal with cyber hygiene? As the cost of a data breach continues to increase, enterprises are tasked with continuously improving their cyber hygiene. Oftentimes, the focus is on cybersecurity tools and procedures, letting concerns about employee behavior fall to the wayside. We need to change our approach….

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Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

How does it all work? First, it starts out with knowing your users and environment. By deploying sensors and integrating with common SaaS apps directly such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and many Identity Providers (Azure AD, Active Directory, Okta, etc.), a profile is built around the user and environment. This profile, made up of user and application behavior, can determine risk to the organization and suggest access control policies. Traffic from the ZTNA is…

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