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2022 Gartner Hype Cycle: Representative Vendor for CIEM

Reading Time: 3 minutes CIEM is at the peak of its ascent, according to Gartner. The analyst’s ‘Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security, 2022’ was published recently by author Charlie Winckless. It wasn’t too long ago that CIEM was added as a new category in the Identity and Access ... Read More
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Emerging Tech Report Highlights CIEM Providers

Reading Time: 4 minutes Gartner recently published a report titled, “Emerging Tech: CIEM Is Required for Cloud Security and IAM Providers to Compete,” and there are two overarching takeaways you’ll want to note: The first is that IAM vendors will need to incorporate CIEM capabilities to survive in the market; ... Read More
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Reap the Benefits of Data Classification & Tagging

Reading Time: 8 minutes Data is the most valuable commodity in your business, so why aren’t you treating it like it is important? Every business runs on data. Bad actors and hackers target companies large and small, across industries and countries to gain access to it. Hackers skill-up to find ... Read More

Shanghai Police Breach Highlights CSPM Need

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Shanghai Police has potentially had its most significant known data breach in the country’s history. The prevailing theory about how the information wound up for sale online is that the police database, hosted by a third-party cloud service provider, had simply been left unsecured, without ... Read More
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8 Features to Seek in Cloud Data Loss Prevention Tools

Reading Time: 8 minutes The frequency of cloud attacks are increasing, in fact, one report found that 79% of companies experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months between 2022 and 2021. There is a consistent pot of gold at the end of malicious attacks – ... Read More
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Azure Misconfiguration Leaves 30.5GB of Student Data Exposed

Reading Time: 3 minutes Fifty-seven thousand student records found themselves at the center of a Microsoft Azure misconfiguration breach this week. MyEasyDocs is an online documents verification platform that specializes in verifying banking, colleges, government and law related documents – not exactly the type of content you want publicly accessible ... Read More
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6.5TB of Sensitive Data Flies Away in Airline Cloud Data Breach

Reading Time: 4 minutes So What Happened? Just a few days ago, Pegasus Airline experienced a high-magnitude AWS data breach compromising 6.5TB of data. Ultimately, 23 million files were publicly exposed, including sensitive information like flight crew PII, plain text passwords, secret keys, and even source code. The suspected culprit? ... Read More
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Avoid AWS Effective Permissions Pitfalls

Reading Time: 5 minutes Understand the difference between fact and fiction when it comes to your effective permissions reducing complexity in your public cloud ... Read More
aws security best practices

12 Important AWS Security Best Practices for 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutes AWS cloud security best practices help you protect your workloads and data. But with so many options, it can be tough to know where to start. AWS security best practices are critical for all businesses that use AWS services. Securing AWS is a shared responsibility between ... Read More
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12 IAM Cloud Best Practices

Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Identity and Access Management is at the forefront of security strategies in the cloud, as organizations big and small migrate to this new frontier. However, what is considered an ‘identity’ looks very different in the cloud than it did in the data center. Why? Well, ... Read More