IT firm Pure Storage has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Portworx, a Kubernetes data services platform. The deal, which is believed to be worth around $370m, is part of Pure Storage’s plan to expand into the market for multi-cloud data services to support Kubernetes and containers.There has been substantial growth in the use of the cloud

You probably know how important it is to back up your data, and there are a number of different backup options for Mac.But it’s also important to back up your iPhone or iPad. While you may not have a lot of documents on these devices that aren’t stored on a cloud server—which you can easily retrieve if necessary—you are likely to have photos and

What is a Certified Cloud Penetration Tester (CCPT) certification?The CCPT certification is offered by the Information Assurance Certification Review Board to validate an applicant’s skills in cloud hacking and penetration testing. The certification is designed to demonstrate that an applicant has expert-level knowledge regarding Azure and AWS penetrat

The current top trends in security and risk management for threat-facing, disruption and the organization have been detailed at the Gartner Security and Risk Virtual Summit.Speaking at the event, research VP Peter Firstbrook pointed at “mega trends that are beyond your control,” which include: the skills gap, regulation and privacy

Today we announced that Sysdig has demonstrated successful integration of our monitoring and security software with AWS Outposts and achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation. AWS Outposts provides a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to your datacenter, co-location space or "edge" location to support

A growing number of organizations are opting to migrate their data and applications to the cloud given the numerous benefits that this delivers: cost savings on server maintenance, scalability, and easy access to data from anywhere, to name just three. The latter is particularly important today due to the massive increase in telecommuting in response to the

Oracle on Monday announced the general availability of its Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones cloud security tools.Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones were some of the new security services univeled by Oracle in September 2019. Offered to Oracle Cloud customers at no extra cost, they help automate threat response and reduce risk.Oracle Cloud Guard, no

Pen-test results also show a majority of organizations have few protections against attackers already on the network.Major cloud services providers are about half as likely (46%) to experience a data breach compared with large enterprises, a new study suggests.Security assessment vendor Coalfire recently analyzed data from some 800 penetration tests that emu

The top security projects for 2020 and 2021 include focus on the cloud, authentication and risk.Speaking at the Gartner Security and Risk Virtual Summit, Gartner analyst Brian Reed said the initial forecast on projects had changed due to COVID-19, and have been constantly adjusted since then. “We can see that there are areas that have marked

A hacking group was observed employing a legitimate tool to gain visibility into and control of compromised cloud environments, threat detection and response company Intezer reported on Tuesday.Referred to as TeamTNT, the group was previously seen employing a worm to target Docker and Kubernetes systems in order to search for and exfiltrate local credentials

Tripwire’s Brent Holder and Stephen Wood discuss recent study findings that provide a snapshot of what organizations are doing (and not doing) to secure their cloud.Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wXKv9DiQjfsZNf6heXg67Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://w

La mayoría de los clientes tienen en mente “ahorrar dinero” al pasarse a la nube.El “cloud deployment” de Google y encabezados de blogs y sitios de noticias están dominados por artículos positivos que ofrecen evidencia anecdótica de cómo la nube puede ahorrar dinero a los clientes. Más comúnmente, los consultores en la nube o los prov

According to its own website, FedRAMP serves three different of partners: federal agencies, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and third-party assessment organizations. This article will focus on CSPs and how a good CSP can provide services that provide monetary savings for your agency.Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and FedRAMPFedRAMP’s defines Cloud Service Provi

Slow patching provides vulnerabilities to exploit. A lack of network segmentation allows unrestricted lateral movement. Yet a report surveying a year of penetration tests finds that passwords still top the list of what attackers use to compromise systems.Passwords continue to be the top weakness exploited in penetration-testing engagements, with the collecti

Nearly half (47%) of UK IT leaders have not updated their security strategies to account for their move to cloud environments, putting their organizations at higher risk of cyber-attack, according to a new study by Trend Micro commissioned for CLOUDSEC Online.This is despite the fact that traditional on-premises security such as firewalls, network intrusion