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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders 1 have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. It is estimated by the end of 2023, 31% of organizations expect to run 75% of their workloads 2 in the cloud.

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Auto Remediation of GuardDuty Findings for a Compromised ECS Cluster in AWSVPC Network Mode

Dzone - DevOps

Summary It is of utmost importance for enterprises to protect their IT workloads, running either on AWS or other clouds, against a broad range of malware (including computer viruses, worms, spyware, botnet software, ransomware, etc.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

Our customers are excited about the cloud for the agility, flexibility and scalability it provides. But, when it comes to keeping their cloud deployments secure, they often tell us they find it hard to combine superior security and easy management with the ability to secure applications consistently across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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Azure-Specific Policies to Detect Suspicious Operations in the Cloud Environment

Prisma Clud

Exploiting privileged operations for malicious intent is one of the biggest threats in the public cloud. The attacker could then use the permissions of the machine to modify the routing tables in the network and directly access a remote server to perform data exfiltration. Imagine that a privileged user account has been compromised.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

1 - CISA issues config baselines for Microsoft cloud apps. Properly configuring cloud services is critical for reducing cyber risk, so guidance in this area is always welcome. Here’s a small sample of the recommendations, which are part of CISA’s Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project: Microsoft Teams. Kinda, sorta.

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

Perhaps it’s because none of the other initiatives on the list (not even hybrid work, legacy modernization or cloud adoption) can succeed without a solid cybersecurity foundation. Palo Alto Networks takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity across the organization. And, they’re innovating faster than ever before.

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Technology Context From the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)

CTOvision

They do what it takes to get in, including devising very sophisticated phishing schemes, creating spyware, placing code in RAM, leaving hacker tools, installing rootkits and continually adjusting/re-placing spyware. 92% of attacks studied in this research can be described and categorized by nine basic attack patterns of: Crimeware.

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