Cybersecurity and Privacy Certification from the Ground Up
Blog Published: 06/04/2018
By Daniele Catteddu, CTO, Cloud Security Alliance The European Cybersecurity Act, proposed in 2017 by the European Commission, is the most recent of several policy documents adopted and/or proposed by governments around the world, each with the intent (among other objectives) to bring clarity to ...
Prepare to Take (and Ace) the CCSK Exam at Infosecurity Europe
Blog Published: 05/31/2018
By Ryan Bergsma, Training Program Director, Cloud Security AllianceHere’s a riddle for you. It’s been called the “mother of all cloud computing security certifications” by CIO Magazine. Search Cloud Security said it’s “a good alternative cloud security certification for an entry-level to midrange...
Bitglass Security Spotlight: Twitter, PyRoMine, & Stresspaint
Blog Published: 05/31/2018
By Jacob Serpa, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassHere are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks:—Twitter exposes user credentials in plaintext—PyRoMine mines Monero and disables security—Stresspaint malware hunts Facebook credentials—MassMiner malware mines cryptocurrency—Access Group E...
Open Survey: Enterprise Resource Planning and Cloud Adoption Survey
Press Release Published: 05/29/2018
In February, the Cloud Security Alliance released ”The State of ERP Security in the Cloud” to provide IT and management professionals with a sound overview of cloud security for ERP systems. The following survey will attempt to better understand cloud preparation and migration, features and benef...
CCSK Certification vs AWS Certification – A Definitive Guide
Blog Published: 05/28/2018
Updated on 7/15/24 to reflect the current versions of the CCSK and AWS Certifications. By Graham Thompson, CCSK, CCSP, CISSP, Authorized Trainer, Intrinsec Security. I was recently asked about CCSK certification vs AWS certification and which one should be pursued by someone looking to get int...
How ChromeOS Dramatically Simplifies Enterprise Security
Blog Published: 05/25/2018
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, BitglassGoogle's Chromebooks have enjoyed significant adoption in education, but have seen very little interest in the enterprise until recently. According to Gartner's Peter Firstbrook in Securing Chromebooks in the Enterprise (6 March 2018), a survey o...
What If the Cryptography Underlying the Internet Fell Apart?
Blog Published: 05/23/2018
By Roberta Faux, Director of Research, EnvietaWithout the encryption used to secure passwords for logging in to services like Paypal, Gmail, or Facebook, a user is left vulnerable to attack. Online security is becoming fundamental to life in the 21st century. Once quantum computing is achieved, a...
Cloud Security Alliance Releases The State of Post-Quantum Cryptography
Press Release Published: 05/23/2018
Report offers an overview of challenges involved with future of data security SEATTLE, WA – May 23, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environme...
Surprise Apps in Your CASB PoC
Blog Published: 05/21/2018
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, BitglassBarely five years old, the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) market is undergoing its second major shift in primary usage. The first CASBs to hit the market way back in 2013-2014 primarily provided visibility into Shadow IT. Interest in that vi...
Majority of Australian Data Breaches Caused by Human Error
Blog Published: 05/18/2018
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitglass It wasn't long ago that the first breach under the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's (OAIC) Privacy Amendment Bill was made public. Now, OAIC is back with their first Quarterly Statistics Report of Notifiable Data Brea...
Bitglass Security Spotlight: LinkedIn, Vector, and AWS
Blog Published: 05/17/2018
By Jacob Serpa, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassHere are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks:—LinkedIn security gap exposes users' data—Vector app reveals customers' information—AWS misconfiguration makes LocalBlox user information public—New malware steals data via power lines—Banki...
Cloud Security Alliance Announces FedSTAR, a New Joint Certification System with FedRAMP
Press Release Published: 05/14/2018
System to be based on a common framework for deployment, use and maintenance Seattle, WA– May 14, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, tod...
Bob Gourley to Speak on Nation State Attacks at CSA Federal Summit 2018
Press Release Published: 05/11/2018
Joins world-class speaker line-up of federal and cybersecurity experts Seattle, WA – May 11, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, announc...
Orbitz: Why You Can't Secure Data in the Dark
Blog Published: 05/11/2018
By Jacob Serpa, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassOn March 1, 2018, Orbitz discovered that a malicious party may have stolen information from one of its legacy platforms. The compromised platform housed Orbitz customer information such as mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and fu...
Cloud Security Alliance Announces Federal Summit 2018 Speaker Line-up
Press Release Published: 05/10/2018
Presentations to focus on how agencies can shift to a secure cloud for mission critical systems Seattle, WA – May 9, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computi...
baseStriker: Office 365 Security Fails To Secure 100 Million Email Users
Blog Published: 05/10/2018
By Yoav Nathaniel, Customer Success Manager, AvananWe recently uncovered what may be the largest security flaw in Office 365 since the service was created. Unlike similar attacks that could be learned and blocked, using this vulnerability hackers can completely bypass all of Microsoft’s security,...
CSA Summit Returns to Infosecurity Europe 2018
Press Release Published: 05/09/2018
World’s leading cloud security organization brings its premier event to Europe’s top information security conference Seattle, WA – May 9, 2018 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secu...
One Simple Way to Avoid 57 Percent of Breaches
Blog Published: 05/08/2018
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, Bitglass I recently caught wind of a survey of 3000 cybersecurity professionals commissioned by ServiceNow and Ponemon. One of the first statistics that jumped out at me? "57% of data breach victims said they were breached due to an unpatched k...
The Case for CASB: Healthcare
Blog Published: 05/01/2018
By Rich Campagna, Chief Marketing Officer, BitglassOver the past couple of years, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) have gone from a nascent, barely known technology to the de facto standard for secure public cloud enablement in every enterprise vertical. Early on, it's tough to draw patterns...
Are Traditional Security Tools Dead?
Blog Published: 04/26/2018
By Salim Hafid, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassWhen evaluating security options, CISOs and security architects are always looking to the solution that will minimize cost and administrative overhead while maximizing data protection. At the highest levels, enterprises have relied on traditional...
