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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. These containers can be spun up by the hundreds, in a moment’s notice, on a virtual cloud server — and then taken down just as swiftly. Speed is what digital transformation is all about.

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Episode 152: What the Silex Malware says about IoT Insecurity and Cloud Security CEO Steve Mullaney on Amazon ReInforce

The Security Ledger

In this week’s podcast episode, #152: we talk with Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar about his discovery of Silex, a new example of IoT killing malware allegedly authored by a 14 year old. Also: Steve Mullaney, the CEO of the cloud security start up Aviatrix joins us to talk about Amazon's new cloud security conference: Re:Inforce.

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Win the connected and autonomous car race while protecting data privacy

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Adopting cloud-based workloads for faster DevOps, collaboration with supply chain, and scalability and elasticity of demand. This sensitive data flows through numerous environments and platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud, and may be accessed by employees and contractors anywhere in the globe. Data security.

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DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users

Security Affairs

“Over the last three months, our honeypots have detected DNS hijacking attacks targeting various types of consumer routers.” “All exploit attempts have originated from hosts on the network of Google Cloud Platform ( AS15169 ). ” reads the report published by Bad Packets. 70.173.48). 128.126.165 and 195[.]128.124.131).

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Because behavioral biometric data can contain confidential and personal information, and reveal sensitive insight, it can also be a high value target and represent a honeypot for attackers. With such a high adoption rate, big data is already transforming many areas of business, including identity management at the individual and device level.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT).

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Cloud Access Management: Even smaller organizations now use cloud resources, but most internal network controls do not extend to resources hosted outside of the network, such as Office 365, Google Docs, other software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, and even segregated branch office networks.

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