Cloud Security Alliance Establishes New Greater China Region Headquarters in Shanghai
Press Release Published: 07/16/2021
Cloud Security Alliance Establishes New Greater China Region Headquarters in ShanghaiShanghai, China – July 9, 2021 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing envi...
2021 State of Cloud Security Posture Management Report
Blog Published: 07/16/2021
This blog was originally published by OpsCompass here.We recently announced the results of a report we conducted on cloud security and management challenges. The “2021 State of Cloud Security Posture Management Report” is based on survey responses from 253 full-time, US-based, IT professionals wh...
Got Vulnerability? Cloud Security Alliance Wants to Identify It
Blog Published: 07/15/2021
I wanted to take some time to tell you about a new CSA working group in formation that I am taking a personal interest in. I am sure you have all heard the expression, “when you have a hammer, all problems look like nails.” This is very relatable to our industry, as we have to be careful that we ...
CCSK Success Stories: From an IS Control and Audit Partner
Blog Published: 07/15/2021
This is part of a blog series interviewing cybersecurity professionals who have earned their Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK). In these blogs we invite individuals to share some of the challenges they face in managing security for cloud computing and how they were able to leverage k...
Machine Learning in Identity and Access Management
Blog Published: 07/14/2021
This blog was originally published by ZTEdge hereWritten by Leo Versola, ZTEdge In recent years, artificial intelligence and machine learning have been quietly transforming industries from agriculture and education to healthcare, marketing, and customer service. In 2018 over 60,000 US patent app...
Will New Executive Order on Cybersecurity Fast Track Zero Trust?
Blog Published: 07/13/2021
This blog was originally published by Bitglass hereWritten by Jonathan Andresen, BitglassOn May 12, US President Biden issued a landmark executive order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity that signals the need for governments and enterprises alike to boost their cyber defenses around the pri...
A Moment in Time: SECtember
Blog Published: 07/12/2021
Our fortunes are often dictated not just by what we do, but when we do it. Understanding that special “moment in time” when we can do great things with our lives, our business, our world is not easy. In my mentoring of colleagues, I try to stress the importance of being able to take a “step back”...
Cloud Security: 5 Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Blog Published: 07/09/2021
This blog was originally published by OpsCompass hereWritten by John Grange, OpsCompassIt’s 2021, and it’s clear that cloud is a global IT trend relevant to every company, regardless of size or industry. The main cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP), as well as their local alterna...
Chris Krebs, Former Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to Headline Cloud Security Alliance’s SECtember
Press Release Published: 07/07/2021
Chris Krebs, Former Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to Headline Cloud Security Alliance’s SECtemberRegistration opens today for industry’s premier cloud event, which will address demand for rapid cloud adoption accelerated ...
The C-Suite’s Long Embrace of the Cloud
Blog Published: 07/06/2021
Take a gander at any recent research report covering cloud services or security and you quickly find some persistent and common themes:Spending on cloud services has not only grown exponentially during the pandemic, but will keep on rising as we continue to slowly return to some sense of normalcy...
Food Industry Increasingly Targeted by Cybercriminals
Blog Published: 07/02/2021
This blog was originally published by Ericom Software hereBy Simon Moran, VP Business Development, Ericom Software In recent weeks, cybercriminals seem to be working their way down a checklist of the basic necessities of a modern life: Healthcare – check, Scripps, HSE and a bunch more. Energy – ...
CCSK Success Stories: From a Head of Cloud Security
Blog Published: 07/01/2021
This is part of a blog series interviewing cybersecurity professionals who have earned their Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK). In these blogs we invite individuals to share some of the challenges they face in managing security for cloud computing and how they were able to leverage k...
The Right Time to Hire a Product Security Analyst
Blog Published: 06/30/2021
This blog was originally published by CyberCrypt here.A doll that understands what children say and responds to them seemed, in 2015, like a great idea — unless you were a security analyst.Unfortunately for Mattel, security analysts seem to have been left out of the conversation until the toymake...
Is the Cloud Control Plane a New Frontline in Cybersecurity?
Blog Published: 06/29/2021
This blog was originally published on Vectra.ai As cloud adoption continues to accelerate with no end in sight, the evolution of the next generation of modern attacks will traverse through and towards an enterprise’s cloud control plane. But why is that? The control plane provides management...
Top 10 Linux Server Hardening and Security Best Practices
Blog Published: 06/28/2021
This blog was originally published by Intezer here.If you have servers connected to the internet, you likely have valuable data stored on them that needs to be protected from bad actors.Linux server hardening is a set of measures used to reduce the attack surface and improve the security of your ...
New Cloud Security Alliance Research Evaluates Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 Security, Provides Guidance Mapped to NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Press Release Published: 06/28/2021
Report and checklist provide data compromise mitigation strategies for financial services industry SEATTLE – June 28, 2021 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications, and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud comput...
Split Knowledge: Literally the Key to Secure Encryption
Blog Published: 06/25/2021
This blog was originally published by CyberCrypt here.When you store your valuable items in a safe deposit box, do you leave your key to that box with the bank? Of course not. Although you might trust your banker, you keep control of that key. Otherwise, if it fell into the wrong hands, you might...
Cloud Network Virtualization: Benefits of SDN over VLAN
Blog Published: 06/25/2021
Written by the members of the Security Guidance Working GroupAll clouds utilize some form of virtual networking to abstract the physical network and create a network resource pool. Typically the cloud user provisions desired networking resources from this pool, which can then be configured within...
Cybercriminals Ramp Up Attacks on Healthcare, Again
Blog Published: 06/24/2021
This blog was originally published by Ericom here Written by James Lui, Ericom Sometimes, even knowing what’s coming can’t help you stop it. Cybersecurity experts anticipated an increase in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations during 2021. And sure enough, by the end of April, 30 US hospita...
Continuous Security Control Enforcement & Governance in the Cloud Ecosystem
Blog Published: 06/23/2021
Written by Raghvendra Singh, Head, Cloud Security CoE, Cyber Security Unit, TCS Digital transformation across industries has witnessed unprecedented acceleration in recent times. Cloud, with its greater flexibility, agility, resilience, and scalability, is invariably the cornerstone technology...
