Payments 101: Card Networks & Transactions
Blog Published: 03/09/2022
This blog was originally published by VGS here. Written by Kenneth Geers, PhD, Information Security Analyst at VGS. Accounting is one of the oldest professions, as evidenced by financial records four times older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Tally marks” etched into the thigh bone of a ba...
Predictions 2022: Five Threats That Will Impact Your Personal Data And Privacy
Blog Published: 03/09/2022
This blog was originally published by Lookout here. Written by Firas Azmeh, General Manager, Personal Digital Safety & Carrier Partnerships, Lookout. It will be increasingly difficult to tell what is legitimate online In Q1 of 2021, 4 in 10 people encountered an unsafe link while using th...
Leapfrog Your Cloud Migration – Don’t Let a Skills Shortage Stifle Business Possibilities
Blog Published: 03/10/2022
This blog was originally published by Entrust here. Written by Juan Asenjo, PH.D., CISSP, Director of Product, Solutions and Partner Marketing at Entrust. Most of you will be familiar with the term leapfrog. Stemming from a children’s game, it’s an expression used not only in English, but al...
Credit Card Life Cycle: What Is It and How Can You Manage It?
Blog Published: 03/10/2022
This blog was originally published by TokenEx here. Written by Valerie Hare, TokenEx. Does your business accept credit card payments? If so, are you familiar with the credit card life cycle and how you can manage it? Indeed, this should be a seamless, quick process for customers purchasing you...
DevSecOps: Mission-Critical to Enterprise Resilience
Blog Published: 03/11/2022
This blog was originally published by Coalfire here. Written by Caitlin Johanson, Director, Application Security, Coalfire. Whatever tolerance we had for failure has been turned upside down in the cloud. The consequences, never greater. So, what’s the solution? Nothing is more important to...
What Is Dark Data and Why Must You Find It?
Blog Published: 03/11/2022
This blog was originally published by BigID here. Written by Kimberly Steele, BigID. In the most straightforward terms, dark data is data that organizations don’t know they have. It is part of the massive, complex, sprawling world of Big Data — and the biggest part, at that.Think about all the...
Milliseconds Matter: Defending Against the Next Zero-Day Exploit
Blog Published: 03/14/2022
Written by Jim Routh, Virsec Zero-day exploits have made headline news over the past two years, attracting newfound attention from regulators and increasing pressure on software manufacturers and security leaders. The most recent exploit comes from the Log4J vulnerabilities. However, zero-...
Latest Security Vulnerabilities Breakdown: February 2022
Blog Published: 03/14/2022
This blog was originally published by Schellman here. Written by Jacob Ansari, Chief Information Security Officer, Schellman. In his play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare famously portrays a soothsayer as warning Caesar to beware the Ides of March, forever giving the otherwise innocuous middle of th...
Prioritizing Data Security in 2022: Where Should You Start?
Blog Published: 03/15/2022
This blog was originally published by PKWARE here. Written by Chris Pin, VP, Security & Privacy, PKWARE. The start of a new year is always rife with resolutions, both personal and professional. Many of us begin to take stock of what we deem most important to focus on, and businesses are ...
Cloud Security Alliance Teams with CrowdStrike, Okta, and Zscaler to Create Focal Point for Zero Trust Education and Best Practices
Press Release Published: 03/09/2022
CSA’s Zero Trust Advancement Center to develop research, training, professional credentialing and an online center for community Zero Trust resourcesSEATTLE – March 9, 2022 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and...
Cloud Security Alliance Sets Countdown Clock to Quantum
Press Release Published: 03/09/2022
Enterprises must begin preparing now to secure themselves in a post-quantum worldSEATTLE – March 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 cloud computing environment,...
Cloud Security Alliance Issues Expanded Specification for the Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)
Press Release Published: 03/10/2022
Growing adoption of Zero Trust principles and corresponding growth in deployments of SDP-based solutions called for enhanced set of guidelinesSEATTLE – March 10, 2022 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best ...
An Analysis of the 2020 Zoom Breach
Blog Published: 03/13/2022
This case study is based off of CSA’s Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious Eleven Deep Dive. The Deep Dive connects the dots between CSA Top Threats by using nine real-world attacks and breaches. Pulling from one of the case studies, this article provides a security analysis overview of t...
4 Things To Know About the ICMAD Vulnerabilities in SAP Business-Critical Applications
Blog Published: 03/15/2022
This blog was originally published by Onapsis on February 16, 2022. Last week, we announced how Onapsis and SAP partnered on the discovery and mitigation of a set of three vulnerabilities affecting the SAP Internet Communication Manager (ICM) component in SAP business-critical applications. ...
Unlocking Competitive Advantage With a Zero Trust Multicloud Strategy
Blog Published: 03/16/2022
This blog was originally published by CXO REvolutionaries here. Written by Martyn Ditchburn, Director of Transformation Strategy, Zscaler. People sometimes ask me what it felt like to complete a full multi-year migration journey from on-premise hosting into the cloud. My answer is always the s...
Learning from the State of Washington’s Data Breach
Blog Published: 03/16/2022
This blog was originally published by AppOmni here. Written by Brian Soby, CTO and Co-Founder of AppOmni. It's not surprising to hear about another data breach in the news, especially one involving a large SaaS deployment like the State of Washington announced in February 2022. SaaS has gr...
What Every CEO Should Know About Modern Ransomware Attacks
Blog Published: 03/17/2022
Written by Yaki Faitelson, Co-Founder and CEO of Varonis. Like most businesses, cybercriminals have adapted and adjusted over the past two years. Modern attackers have learned to launch more destructive ransomware campaigns while becoming more efficient and adept at evading law enforcement.W...
CCSK Success Stories: From an IT Security Auditor
Blog Published: 03/18/2022
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 leverag...
Looking for an Entry-Level Cloud Security Certificate? Earn the CCSK
Blog Published: 03/12/2022
Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) can help you get there. This certificate is not just for technical professionals, and even the study materials alone prove to be helpful to non-technical and entry-level staff trying to gain a...
Key Ways to Improve DLP Coverage and Accuracy
Blog Published: 03/18/2022
Written by Amit Kandpal, Director - Customer Success at NetskopeIn this blog series, we’ve been examining key questions for cloud DLP transformation. Make sure to also check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In this final part, let’s look at some available options in decreasing order of breadth ...
