Application Security: The Best/Worst Is Yet to Come

by Charlene O’Hanlon on April 23, 2021

In the wake of recent high-profile breaches, all eyes are on application security. Yet, application security hasn’t always received the attention during the application development process it deserves. Many organizations deploy applications with known vulnerabilities to meet their deadlines, with the idea that they’ll be addressed in the next update. That’s a dangerous gamble. DevSecOps..
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Adopting a Strategic Mindset for Cloud-Native Application Protection

by Charlene O’Hanlon on April 14, 2021

With more applications being developed in a cloud-native fashion, using containers and serverless architecture, organizations should think about smarter, more efficient and more reliable ways to protect their applications. Cyberattackers are more innovative and are achieving more success in compromising cloud-native applications, so vigilance is a must for developers, security professionals and IT organizations. Download..
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Heading Off a Cloud Security Crisis

by Charlene O’Hanlon on December 14, 2020

Application workloads deployed in the cloud, in theory at least, should be more secure than those deployed on-premises, because a cloud service provider has all the expertise required to secure those platforms. Organizations run into trouble, however, when responsibility for cloud security is shared between the cloud service provider and the IT personnel that deploy..
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Top Ways Your Cloud Security Approach is Burning Cash

by Charlene O’Hanlon on November 11, 2020

Through our work across hundreds of clouds and tens of thousands of containers and workloads, we’ve captured the top ways organizations can save time and money by embracing a cloud-first approach to security. Download this eBook to learn: Why creating suppression rules increases your breach risk, and how to move to a no-rules, automated approach How to..
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The Cloud Has Evolved. Are Your Security Tools Keeping Pace?

by Charlene O’Hanlon on November 11, 2020

Organizations that purchased early cloud security products are finding that those tools are not able to keep up with dynamic environments ruled by APIs and microservices in dynamic containerized environments, not to mention server instances that are constantly scaling up and down. The future of cloud security demands an automated approach, rather than one that..
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Cisco Tetration: Securing All Phases of the Hybrid Cloud Journey

by Charlene O’Hanlon on October 13, 2020

Tetration is a solution that offers many unique capabilities that are particularly well suited to help enterprises at all phases of hybrid cloud transformation, regardless of whether that journey is just beginning with a few virtual workloads or a small public cloud deployment or encompasses a vast, global data center environment. It provides full-stack visibility..
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Multi-Cloud Data Security: Cloud Security Landscape

by Charlene O’Hanlon on August 11, 2020

According to Gartner, 81% of enterprise businesses are adopting either a hybrid cloud or a multi-cloud strategy to drive business agility. Based on the Cloud Threat Report 2019 released by Oracle and KPMG, 71% of data now in the public cloud is “sensitive.” As workloads and sensitive data move to the cloud, customers need a..
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The State of Cloud Native Security 2020

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 8, 2020

The first annual State of Cloud Native Security report examines the practices, tools and technologies innovative companies are using to manage cloud environments and drive cloud native development. Based on a survey of 3,000 cloud architecture, InfoSec and DevOps professionals across five countries, the report surfaces insights from a proprietary set of well-analyzed data.
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Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report, Spring 2020

by Charlene O’Hanlon on June 14, 2020

For the Spring 2020 edition of the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report, the team of elite cloud threat researchers uncover where cloud vulnerabilities are surfacing in infrastructure as code (IaC) templates, as well as providing a deep dive into cryptomining operations and broader cybercrime trends.
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The Business Case for Cloud Threat Defense

by Charlene O’Hanlon on June 14, 2020

When evaluating solutions for cloud compliance and security, the most common options include repurposing legacy data center solutions, building from scratch, or buying a cloud native security product. This report provides an overview of the practical benefits of Prisma Cloud, one such cloud native security product, along with a prepared cost/benefit analysis.
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