What Is Attestation of Compliance (AoC) and Why Does It Matter?
Blog Published: 08/18/2022
Originally published by TokenEx here. Written by Valerie Hare, Content Marketing Specialist, TokenEx.Did you know that a Verizon Payment Security Report found that only 27.9 percent of organizations achieved full compliance with PCI DSS during their validation process in 2019? The Payment Card In...
Cloud Key Management 101: Cryptographic Keys and Algorithms
Blog Published: 08/17/2022
The top cloud security threat in 2022 is insufficient identity, credential, access, and key management. Key Management Systems (KMS), including hardware security modules and other cryptographic tools, are commonly used to address this threat.While different KMS offerings provide varying capabilit...
Context Counts: How to Use Transfer Learning and Model-Aided Labeling to Train Data Tailored Models
Blog Published: 08/17/2022
Originally published by BigID here. Written by Itamar Zaltsman, BigID. Thanks to great advances and breakthroughs in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), we have access to a vast amount of ready to use Named Entity Recognition (NER) classifiers. These classifiers are available in many c...
Global Cybersecurity Experts Take the Stage at SECtember, Hosted by Cloud Security Alliance
Press Release Published: 08/17/2022
Event provides state-of-the-art perspective on cybersecurity threat vectors and solutions rooted in cloud computingSEATTLE – Aug. 17, 2022 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secu...
Can Ransomware Infect Encrypted Files?
Blog Published: 08/17/2022
Originally published by ShardSecure here. Written by Marc Blackmer, VP of Marketing, ShardSecure. By now, you likely know that ransomware has become a major concern for businesses and organizations across the globe. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) noted a 150% rise in ransomwa...
Treating Healthcare’s Insider Threat
Blog Published: 08/16/2022
Originally published by Authomize here. Written by Gabriel Avner, Authomize. There’s an old joke about why bank robbers rob banks. Because that’s where the money is. Given the valuable assets under their care, banks, fintech, insurance, and other financial institutions have understood that they h...
Google Workspace - Log Insights to Your Threat Hunt
Blog Published: 08/16/2022
Originally published by Mitiga here. Written by Ariel Szarf and Lionel Saposnik, Mitiga. Google Workspace is a popular service for document collaboration for organizations and for individual users. Threat actors note that the popularity of this service has increased and search for ways to explo...
An Overview on the Modern, Cloud-Native SOC Platform
Blog Published: 08/15/2022
Originally published by Panther here. Written by Mark Stone, Panther. For the modern security team, the concepts of Security Operations Center (SOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) are well known and have become increasingly crucial. To defend against the wide range of cyber ...
How to Secure and Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster?
Blog Published: 08/15/2022
Originally published by ARMO here. Written by Rotem Refael, Director of Engineering, ARMO. Kubernetes is the de-facto container management platform of today and the future. It has increased the scalability and flexibility of applications and eliminated vendor lock-in. Kubernetes also brings a lot...
CCSK Success Stories: From the VP of Internal Security and IT
Blog Published: 08/12/2022
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...
Who Performs a SOC 2 Audit? The Role of SOC 2 Auditors vs. Compliance Software
Blog Published: 08/12/2022
Originally published by A-LIGN here. Written by Stephanie Oyler, Vice President of Attestation Services, A-LIGN. Data breaches and ransomware attacks continue to dominate the news cycle. To protect data, and position themselves favorably among prospects and customers, companies need to demonstrat...
The Mendacious Magic of Cloud Tiering
Blog Published: 08/11/2022
Originally published by Nasuni here. Written by Andres Rodriguez, CTO & founder, Nasuni. In the words of the great Arthur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This is a brilliant maxim, but it doesn’t mean that a solution which appears to be magic...
Detecting and Mitigating NTLM Relay Attacks Targeting Microsoft Domain Controllers
Blog Published: 08/11/2022
Originally published by CrowdStrike here. Written by Marina Simakov, CrowdStrike. Adversaries often exploit legacy protocols like Windows NTLM that unfortunately remain widely deployed despite known vulnerabilities. The PetitPotam vulnerability, combined with AD-CS relay, is one of the recent sev...
5 Tips for Managing Shadow IT
Blog Published: 08/11/2022
Originally published by ThirdPartyTrust here. Written by Sabrina Pagnotta, ThirdPartyTrust. With remote work exacerbating the use of personal devices, home Wi-Fi networks, and cloud-based services, organizations increasingly face blind spots known as Shadow IT: unsanctioned hardware, services, an...
With Security Analytics, Quality Means More Than Quantity
Blog Published: 08/10/2022
Written by Rohit Dhamankar, Vice President, Threat Intelligence, Alert Logic.In the cybersecurity market, detecting attacks early — hopefully, before a breach occurs, but certainly as early in the kill chain as possible — and neutralizing them before damage is done is critical.But success in toda...
If a Recession Comes, Cut Cyber Professionals at Your Peril
Blog Published: 08/10/2022
Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries here. Written by David Cagigal, CIO, State of Wisconsin (former).I was working for a utility company in 2008 when a bubble burst in the housing market and caused the economy to collapse. We were all asked to tighten our belts. I knew then that I had to ...
What is a Merchant-Initiated Transaction, and Why is it Considered Low Risk?
Blog Published: 08/09/2022
Originally published by TokenEx here.Written by Anni Burchfiel, Content Marketing Specialist, TokenEx.A merchant-initiated transaction is a payment initiated by the merchant instead of the cardholder. These transactions are initiated on behalf of the customer based on an agreement between the mer...
Cloud Security Alliance Releases Illustrative Type 2 SOC 2® Report That Incorporates Its Cloud Controls Matrix Criteria
Press Release Published: 08/09/2022
Document provides American Institute of Certified Public Accountants-approved guidelines for SOC 2 reportingSEATTLE – August 9, 2022 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure clo...
From the Front Lines | 8220 Gang Massively Expands Cloud Botnet to 30,000 Infected Hosts
Blog Published: 08/09/2022
Originally published by SentinelOne here. Written by Tom Hegel, SentinelOne. Over the last month a crimeware group best known as 8220 Gang has expanded their botnet to roughly 30,000 hosts globally through the use of Linux and common cloud application vulnerabilities and poorly secured configu...
Cloud Data Security Requires 20/20 Vision
Blog Published: 08/08/2022
Originally published by Laminar here. Written by Oran Avraham, Laminar. No reasonable business leader would ever dream about leaving their logistics software unmanaged or their sales departments to their own devices. Visibility into every aspect of a business—every crevice, no matter how large or...
