Cloud Security

The Australian Home Affairs department may want to bury their heads in the sand after accidentally exposing sensitive information of more than 50 small business survey participants. Why were they being surveyed? Ironically, to get their thoughts on cybersecurity. It is believed the names, business names, phone numbers and emails of the participants in the survey were released on the parliament website in response to a question for a government cybersecurity report. The report is...

New research released by  Lookout, Inc. the increased number of growing threats associated with remote work and bring your own device (BYOD) policies faced by organisations. The State of Remote Work Security aims to help raise awareness amongst IT and security leaders about the growing threats associated with remote work and bring your own device (BYOD) policies. Survey results show that with remote and hybrid working, personal and work tasks blur together and the boundaries...

Today, Cato Networks has been named the Leader in the Single-Vendor SASE Quadrant Analysis published in TechTarget. "We're honoured to be identified as the Leader in single-vendor SASE market," says Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. "Cato introduced the first worldwide SASE platform in 2016, four years before Gartner defined the term. Since then, we've continued to enhance and extend Cato SASE Cloud as recognized by this award." Why Single-Vendor SASE? While SASE brings...

Analysing the software security practices of 130 organisations including Adobe, PayPal and Lenovo, Synopsys's Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) report has found a nearly 50% surge in activities to secure open source software components and integrate security into developer toolchains; indicating greater initiative to tackle software supply chain security over the last 12 months. The findings highlight a significant increase in activities that indicate BSIMM member organizations are implementing a “shift everywhere” approach to...

As competition becomes fiercer, with technology being a primary tool for attaining competitive advantage, migrating to the cloud has become inevitable. Besides levelling the playfield, cloud technologies are a future-ready solution that makes running a business simpler and safer. Here, we look at five benefits of moving to the cloud. 1.   Improved security The cloud is designed for maximum data security, thanks to high levels of encryption and security layers that give it an edge...

With a greater reliance placed on data systems and networks to support the needs of a highly-evolved commercial system, cyber security is not everyone’s business no matter their sector. The following tips can help you increase your business’ vigilance and cybersecurity solutions in the face of cyber attacks.     1 – Understand that “You are a target to hackers”  It is no longer safe to assume that “this can’t happen to me.” Everyone is at...

Whether it’s Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub or Zoom, all SaaS apps include a host of security features designed to protect the business and its data. The job of ensuring that these apps’ security settings are properly configured falls on the security team. The challenge lies within how burdensome this responsibility is: Each app has tens or hundreds of security settings to configure. In addition, there is a continuous need for updates to the global...

One Identity, a leader in unified identity security, announced yesterday that its One Identity Partner Circle Program had achieved exceptional results during the recently ended fiscal year as evidenced by 80% of global company sales linked to the channel (fiscal year 2022 ended January 31). Other milestones include the addition of more than 600 new partners driven by the recent acquisition of OneLogin and the growth of new partner resources and training classes. For many...

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications' security posture. With enterprises having 1,000 or more employees relying on dozens to hundreds of apps, the need for deep visibility and remediation for SaaS security settings is only getting more critical. The top pain points for SaaS security stem from:...

It’s unfortunate, but true: SaaS attacks continue to increase. You can’t get around it, COVID-19 accelerated the already exploding SaaS market and caused industries not planning on making a switch to embrace SaaS. With SaaS apps becoming the default system of record for organizations, it has left many struggling to secure their company’s SaaS estate. CISOs and security professionals work to limit this burgeoning threat landscape, however, it’s a work in progress.   One slight misconfiguration...