The global public cloud services market is on track to grow 17% this year, topping $266 billion. These are impressive figures, and whatever Covid-19 may do short-term to the macro-economy, they’re a sign of where the world is heading. But while many organizations may describe themselves as “cloud-first”, they’re certainly not “cloud-only.” That is, hybrid…
Read More[Lightly edited transcript of the video above] Hi there, Mark Nunnikhoven from Trend Micro Research, I want to talk to you about the concept of lateral movement. And the reason why I want to tackle this today is because I’ve had some conversations in the last few days that have really kind of hit that…
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Back in 2005, there were a number of us in a conference room in Austin, Texas working to determine how we would structure it, what we would name it, and how to deal with the potential backlash that would come after we announced it. What is it? I’m referring to our Zero Day Initiative. It’s…
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Endpoint and Host security techniques have diverged. There used to be considerable similarity between the techniques and tools used to secure desktops, servers, and even networks. Desktops evolved to become Endpoints, as mobile devices proliferated and they were assembled into a collective of being in the category of not-a-server. But as practitioners know, it isn’t…
Read MoreOver the past four years, many things have changed in our Cloud Security Blog has been online – largely because of the evolution of the industry. No longer are we encountering “cloud confusion,” as a couple of our earlier blog posts on cloud-based security and threats from the cloud discussed. The “Cloud” and security within…
Read MoreThe Cloud Security Alliance recently released a white paper on cloud computing vulnerability incidents spanning the last five years. They looked at more than 11 thousand news articles regarding cloud computing-related incidents to determine the top reasons behind outages. Did you know 64 percent of the outages can be attributed to one of three causes: Insecure Interfaces…
Read MoreBy Richard Medugno Over the past few months, I have written Fearless Web blogs about the growing problem of stolen and lost smartphones and mobile devices. It was my hope that by shedding some light on these often avoidable incidents that this nonsense would cease. And yet it hasn’t. In fact, it seems to have…
Read MoreBy Vic Hargrave Phishing is an ever-present danger on the Internet threat landscape. In my blog Dealing With Phishy Emails I wrote about what you can do to combat conventional phishing attempts. By “conventional” I mean those emails that use social engineering techniques to get you to click on links in the messages that would…
Read MoreBy Greg Boyle 680 million people access Facebook on their mobile devices. For a lot of these people, it’s the only way they interact with the social network. They check-in, post pictures, like, friend, and unfriend, all while on the go or on the sofa. But many of them – about 28% according to Consumer…
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