cloud security

How Cisco Uses the Isovalent Platform to Secure Cloud Workloads

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How Cisco Uses the Isovalent Platform to Secure Cloud Workloads

As cloud environment evolve, efficient and effective workload security has been at the top of the list. At Cisco, we have integrated the Isovalent platform into our infrastructure to ensure our cloud workloads are protected without compromising on performance. Why Isovalent? The Isovalent platform is based on the eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology that offers a very modern approach to securing cloud-native environments. Where traditional security solutions usually fail to keep up with the…

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How to Protect Your Social Media Passwords with Multi-factor Verification | McAfee Blog

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How to Protect Your Social Media Passwords with Multi-factor Verification | McAfee Blog

Two-step verification, two-factor authentication, multi-factor authentication…whatever your social media platform calls it, it’s an excellent way to protect your accounts. There’s a good chance you’re already using multi-factor verification with your other accounts — for your bank, your finances, your credit card, and any number of things. The way it requires an extra one-time code in addition to your login and password makes life far tougher for hackers. It’s increasingly common to see nowadays, where…

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How AI Is Changing the Cloud Security and Risk Equation

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How AI Is Changing the Cloud Security and Risk Equation

The AI boom is amplifying risks across enterprise data estates and cloud environments, according to cybersecurity expert Liat Hayun. In an interview with TechRepublic, Hayun, VP of product management and research of cloud security at Tenable, advised organisations to prioritise understanding their risk exposure and tolerance, while prioritising tackling key problems like cloud misconfigurations and protecting sensitive data. Liat Hayun, VP of product management and research of cloud security at Tenable She noted that while…

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools help IT organizations maintain the health, performance and user experience of business applications, according to market researcher Gartner. Such tools…

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DevOps Decoded: Prioritizing Security in a Dynamic World

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DevOps Decoded: Prioritizing Security in a Dynamic World

Introduction: The urgency of security DevOps security marries development, operations, and security to remove the barriers between software developers and IT operations. Doing so ensures the code runs scales and operates reliably across the organization. While DevOps supports rapid updates, there might be reliance on vulnerabilities from third-party components. Development and IT can reduce flaws and adapt new features earlier while fostering teamwork, making software integration more secure. Traditional vs. Integrated Approach: The conventional model…

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DevOps Decoded: Prioritizing Security in a Dynamic World

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DevOps Decoded: Prioritizing Security in a Dynamic World

Introduction: The Urgency of Security DevOps security marries development, operations, and security to remove the barriers between software developers and IT operations. Doing so ensures the code runs scales and operates reliably across the organization. While DevOps supports rapid updates, there might be reliance on vulnerabilities from third-party components. Development and IT can reduce flaws and adapt new features earlier while fostering teamwork, making software integration more secure. Traditional vs. Integrated Approach: The conventional model…

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Maximizing business benefits with robust hybrid cloud security

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Maximizing business benefits with robust hybrid cloud security

Byline: Chris Jenkins, Principal Chief Architect at Red Hat  The evolution of containers and hybrid cloud technologies has brought significant benefits to the enterprise. These platforms democratize access to new applications and technologies, enabling teams to work more seamlessly together and facilitate increased innovation within the organization. Over the last few years, IT leaders have been championing migrations from on-premises based virtual machines to containers and the hybrid cloud accordingly, with almost three quarters (73%)…

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Ensuring security and compliance in evolving cloud environments

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Ensuring security and compliance in evolving cloud environments

With the rapid pace of cloud adoption, organizations are quickly revolutionizing business operations but are having a harder time ensuring that systems are built and operated effectively and deployed with the proper cyber hygiene. Business growth experts say to move fast and break things but failing to implement appropriate cybersecurity controls simply doesn’t work because both the regulatory and threat landscape are evolving more rapidly than ever.  Even before organizations embarked on huge digital transformation…

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CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide | TechRepublic

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CrowdStrike Outage Disrupts Microsoft Systems Worldwide | TechRepublic

A major disruption to Windows PCs in the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Africa and other countries was caused by an error in a CrowdStrike update, the cloud security company announced on Friday. Emergency services, airports and law enforcement reported downtime, which is ongoing. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack,” CrowdStrike said in a statement. Blue Screen of Death widespread due to CrowdStrike outage Affected organizations saw the infamous Blue Screen of Death, the…

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Snowflake Users Targeted for Data Theft and Extortion

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Snowflake Users Targeted for Data Theft and Extortion

A new report from Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, reveals that a financially motivated threat actor named UNC5537 collected and exfiltrated data from about 165 organizations’ Snowflake customer instances. Snowflake is a cloud data platform used for storing and analyzing large volumes of data. The threat actor managed to get access to these data by triggering credentials that were previously stolen by infostealer malware or purchased from other cybercriminals. According to Mandiant, the threat actor…

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