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CRN’s 12 Biggest Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities in 2020

CRN published a new list of the 12 Biggest Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities at the beginning of June 2020.  One of the main recurring themes in CRN’s list of 12 cloud threats and vulnerabilities though is misconfiguration. Whether it’s because of the multitude of options available, breakdown in a shared responsibility model, or mis-assigned privileges, there’s a resounding theme that security organizations need to do better when understanding their environments in the cloud.  Misconfiguration was also listed as one of the leading causes of breaches in this year’s Verizon Data Breach Incident Report.  Here at K2, we’ve seen misconfiguration lead to servers with unpatched vulnerabilities, leaving them vulnerable to attacks.

Aside from misconfiguration though, was an interesting note on “continuous scanning”, listed as number 11 in CRN’s list of the 12 Biggest Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities.  CRN said that organizations fail to realize when new applications go into production and provide adequate security for them when they do.  It’s a good reminder that RASP (Runtime Application Self Protection) security solutions exist, and RASPs are security solutions that resides on the application server providing runtime security.  RASP is important for protecting all applications on that server, regardless of when they start running.  RASP as a security solution was recently added as requirement by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies) as part of their cyber security framework.

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K2’s Next Generation Application Workload Protection Platform addresses today’s need for runtime security in an easy to use, easy to deploy solution.  K2’s unique deterministic security detects new attacks without the need to rely on past attack knowledge, is lightweight, and adds under a millisecond of latency to the running application.  To aid in quick remediation of vulnerabilities, K2 also provides detailed attack telemetry including the code module and line number being in the code being attacked, while at the same time integrating with leading firewalls to do real time attacker blocking.

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from K2io authored by K2io. Read the original post at: https://www.k2io.com/crns-12-biggest-cloud-threats-and-vulnerabilities-in-2020/