A Round-up of Data Breaches in February 2020
Data Breach at Slickwraps exposes more than 857,000 customer accounts Slickwraps, a company developing customized vinyl skins for mobile phones, has suffered a data breach, exposing personal information of over 857,000 customers. Interestingly the systems were not breached by the hacker by discovering any vulnerability, but by reading through a ... Read More
RSA Conference 2020 Wrap-up: Human-Centric Security
By Salah Nassar, Vice President of Marketing, CipherCloud Without a doubt, the top focus at the RSA Conference 2020 was human/people-centric security. This year’s conference messaging focused on the Human Element – which makes perfect sense. We are in a time of cloud mobile digital transformation, in which organizations are ... Read More
CipherCloud wins at the prestigious InfoSec Awards 2020
In the recently released results by Cyber Defense Magazine, CipherCloud has been declared a winner at the prestigious 8th Annual Information Security Awards. The results were announced during RSA 2020 at San Francisco. This follows CipherCloud winning Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for CASB and Cloud Security a few days back. Additionally, ... Read More
Get a grip on data in Box and beyond – for compliance sake
By Salah Nassar, Vice President of Marketing, CipherCloud How it all started We all love Box. Box makes cloud collaboration better and is a key business consideration for organizations to begin their journey into cloud adoption on the ever expanding digital transformation initiatives. In fact, many organizations began their cloud ... Read More
New Feature Introductions in CASB+
Start of a new year and CipherCloud has released its latest version of Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB+) software that comes with new cloud security features in tune with the evolving definition of CASB, focusing on tightening the security controls around the cloud to reduce user risks and prevent data ... Read More
A Round-up of Data Breaches in January 2020
Microsoft data breach – 250 million records exposed Microsoft has announced a data breach that has exposed 250 million customer records, spanning 14 years, without password protection. An investigation by Comparitech security research team has discovered five Elasticsearch servers containing the same set of 250 million Microsoft customer service records ... Read More
CipherCloud and CloudFlare provide the building blocks for SASE
By Salah Nassar, Vice President of Marketing, CipherCloud When it comes to any new concept, especially in the technology space, the best starting point is to clearly understand the purpose, then to peel the layers of how the tech attempts to solve for this said purpose. In this case, Gartner ... Read More
Securing data and maintaining compliance in ServiceNow
2019 was one of the worst and shocking years in cyber security. Worst because of the scale of data exposure – 5183 breaches, exposing 7.9 billion records in just the first nine months of 2019 [1]. Shocking because of the post-mortem reports – most of the breaches were the result ... Read More
Prevent security misconfigurations in a multi-cloud environment
In November 2019 we witnessed one of the biggest data breaches till date. Personal information of 1.2 billion users got exposed, including phone numbers, email addresses and profiles of hundreds of millions of people that include home and cell phone numbers, associated social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ... Read More
CipherCloud and Cloudflare solve for the cloud-mobile environment
The cloud-mobile environment that we operate in today is a brave new world for many organizations. Mobile devices, both managed and unmanaged, connecting to cloud apps and infrastructure, that is off premises, render existing security equipment and infrastructure virtually useless. Furthermore, most organizations are adopting a cloud-first mobile-first strategy as ... Read More
