Tag: Cloud Security
A large technology consultancy with thousands of employees spread across north America and Europe is now approaching 99% cloud deployment for their applications. The consultancy believes this is the right solution to provide flexible and secure application deployment for their widely dispersed user community. The migration from on-premises to cloud-delivery began a decade ago with…
Read MoreF5 Labs researchers combed through lists of organizations whose cloud resources have been exposed since 2017 due to intentional insecurity. The growth rate from 2017 to 2018 was an alarming 200%. So far in 2019, with an average of 2.5 breaches per month, we would expect to see a total of 30 breaches by the…
Read MoreLooking at cloud breaches over the last few years, it’s easy to get the impression that most were easily avoidable events that occurred due to silly misconfigurations, ugly failure modes, or borderline negligent architectures. To put it bluntly, these cloud breaches look stupid. But the people and the organizations designing and running these systems—both the…
Read MoreThe F5 2019 State of Application Services Report noted that more than half (53%) of respondents were more confident about protecting applications on premises than in the public cloud (38%). It is normal to be uneasy about cloud security. Security in the cloud is a double-edged sword: it can render traditional security measures impotent, but…
Read MoreThe cloud, like every other technology, was developed to help us do more things faster and more efficiently. It’s a business tool that provides the self-service flexibility of on-demand technological services decoupled from the need to physically deliver hardware and software. Organizations are flocking to leverage this power, but there are nagging questions: Is cloud…
Read MoreWhile cloud allows us to offload many responsibilities to third party providers, risk is not one of them. What’s more, is that the rising use of cloud, shared code libraries and other third party resources reduces the visibility and control businesses have over their apps and data – making them even more vulnerable. Businesses today…
Read MoreIn part 1, we discussed the various definitions of cloud and looked at cloud incidents related to data breaches, such as outages. In this part, we’re taking a close look at major cloud data breach incidents over the past few years. Are the majority of these breaches associated with sophisticated advanced attackers or malicious insiders?…
Read MoreGood or bad, the cloud adoption represents a new pathway for anyone to become a software startup without having to hire operations or infrastructure personnel. Although they can quickly get a minimally viable application up and running, that application may lack both robustness and security measures of more traditional, well-engineered systems. I’m pretty sure that…
Read MoreFrom tech giants and gamers to politicians and retailers, nobody is safe from today’s mutating threat landscape. 2019 was another frenzied maelstrom of cyberattacks, mitigations, pre-emptions and preventions, with the old (phishing and DDoS et al) rubbing havoc-wreaking shoulders with the new (new vistas in cyberwars, automation and AI). As ever, continuous pressure also begets…
Read MoreBack in the day, the theft and loss of backup tapes and laptops were the primary causes of data breaches. That all changed when systems were redesigned and data at rest was encrypted on portable devices. Not only did we use technology to mitigate a predictable human problem, we also increased the tolerance of failure.…
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