Tag: Security

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Wisdom Sablah; The NFT craze has made all kinds of digital art, including pixelated cats, highlight reels and tweets, worth millions of dollars — all seemingly overnight. What’s not surprising is that scammers looking to cash in have also made a beeline toward NFT marketplaces. Unfortunately, these malicious actors have made things difficult if you’re looking to sell or buy NFTs safely.  Key Takeaways:  The NFT frenzy has attracted scammers and hackers looking for a payday.To protect your NFT assets, use a VPN to hide your traffic and make it inaccessible to snoopers.In addition, enable two-factor authentication, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; MEGA is a cloud storage service that has long prided itself on being zero-knowledge, meaning the company had no way to decrypt the files stored on its servers. Unfortunately, a study by cryptographers in June 2022 found a significant vulnerability in the service’s encryption. This new MEGA security flaw makes it theoretically possible for the company to retrieve a user’s RSA private key and decrypt their files. Key Takeaways: Cryptographic researchers have exposed critical flaws and severe vulnerabilities in how the MEGA cloud storage service handles its users’ encryption keys.MEGA has issued a security patch, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports the ability to deploy IPSec VPN connections over Direct Connect using private IP addresses. With this change, customers can encrypt DX traffic between their on-premises network and AWS without the need for public IP addresses, thus enabling enhanced security and network privacy at the same time. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. Until now, you were required to use a public IP address to connect your on-premises networks to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Gokhul Srinivasan. By Gokhul Srinivasan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, ISV Startups – AWSBy Aron Eidelman, Contributing Author – AWSBy Ed Casmer, CTO – Cloud Storage Security Cloud Storage Security Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a highly scalable object storage service that allows organizations to store and process data. Because of its flexibility and ease of use, it has become the “center pin” of many applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A wide range of solutions ingest data, store it in Amazon S3 buckets, and then share it with downstream users ... Read More

Feed: SingleStore Blog. Author: . From development to delivery, SingleStoreDB Cloud ensures that security is considered, designed, reviewed and implemented so that the data of our customers — and their customers— is safeguarded as if it were our own. We’ve built security into all of our products; those hosted by customers on their own infrastructure, and those we host on our customers’ behalf.SingleStoreDB automatically manages encryption, authentication, access and monitoring so you can focus your efforts on your data and the value it adds.  We maintain a holistic approach to information protection, combining a set of controls that help businesses ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. Introduction Industrial digital transformation can increase competitiveness and optimize processes and profitability through the use of big data, IoT, machine-to-machine communication, and machine learning. Continuous digitalization and progressive interconnectivity of the production environment is important to capturing value from industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions. While this new and expanding “physical meets digital” connectivity enables great rewards, it also introduces new risk, which needs to be properly managed. Industrial organizations should be aware of the risks that come along with the benefits of this convergence and cloud adoption. As ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Gokhul Srinivasan. By Gokhul Srinivasan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, ISV Startups – AWSBy Aron Eidelman, Contributing Author – AWSBy Ed Casmer, CTO – Cloud Storage Security Cloud Storage Security Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a highly scalable object storage service that allows organizations to store and process data. Because of its flexibility and ease of use, it has become the “center pin” of many applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A wide range of solutions ingest data, store it in Amazon S3 buckets, and then share it with downstream users ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; If you want a VPN to occasionally watch movies, open emails on public WiFi or access geoblocked content, a premium VPN may be overkill for the task. A free VPN may cut it, but you’ll have to pierce through the dense fog of the free VPN market to find a provider that can deliver solid security and performance.  Lucky for you, we already did the legwork for you. We tested out numerous free virtual private networks, weeding out the unscrupulous services to narrow down your options to five reliable providers. These are free versions of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Suren Jamiyanaa. We are excited to share that Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy and Azure DDoS Protection plan management in Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available. With an increasing need to secure cloud deployments through a Zero Trust approach, the ability to manage network security policies and resources in one central place is a key security measure. Today, you can now centrally manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide Layer 7 application security to your application delivery platforms, Azure Front Door, and Azure Application Gateway, in your networks and across subscriptions ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. As more and more organizations migrate their applications to the cloud, cloud native computing has become the dominant way to approach software development and execution. In the meantime, security threats are growing more sophisticated and widespread every day. Protecting your applications from these threats requires the ability to defend them at runtime, when they're most vulnerable to attacks.This practical guide introduces you to Falco, the open source standard for continuous risk and threat detection across Kubernetes, containers, and the cloud. Falco creator Loris Degioanni and core maintainer Leonardo Grasso bring ... Read More