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Cloud Security Posture Management Best Practices

The rapid adoption of cloud services, along with an increasing number of cloud infrastructure and platform services, has created an explosion in complexity and unmanaged risk. While IaaS providers deliver basic configuration and risk assessment capabilities, they only address their own services,[...]

Insider Attacks Still Far More Difficult to Detect and Prevent Than External Cyber Attacks

A recent survey conducted by Gurucul of more than 320 IT security experts, found that 15 percent of people said they would delete files or change passwords upon exiting a company.

Intelligent Authentication Market Grows to Meet Demand

It's 2019 and we still don't know who the users are. That's a conclusion that both IT executives and growing security companies are eager to see solved. And according to a report from Research and Markets, that eagerness should drive the advanced authentication market to a 12% compound annual[...]

Cloud Security Spend Set to Reach $12.6B by 2023

Businesses are expected to spend $12.6 billion on cloud security tools by 2023, up from $5.6 billion in 2018 and with an especially close focus on public cloud native platform security, Forrester reports.

The Top Emerging Risks Organizations are Facing

Gartner surveyed 98 senior executives across industries and geographies and found that “accelerating privacy regulation” had overtaken “talent shortages” as the top emerging risk in the Q1 2019 Emerging Risk Monitor survey.

How to Maximize Audience Engagement by Increasing Online Video Performance

Online video’s explosive growth has created tremendous new opportunities for engaging customers and developing new revenue streams. But despite the fact that video is becoming increasingly central to many online business strategies, many publishers still lack the tools and data to understand what[...]

IT Teams are Struggling With Network Infrastructure Challenges Caused by the Cloud

Public cloud adoption is growing by double-digit percentages year over year, and the public cloud market is expected to exceed $220 billion by the end of 2019, according to Gartner. However, the survey findings from Dimensional Research reveal that IT teams are often siloed and do not agree on who[...]

92% of Organizations Rank Users as Their Primary Security Concern

Cybercrime continues to evolve and become more sophisticated. AI and machine learning are leveraged by many criminal organizations to help them better understand how to improve their attacks and they are now targeting specific industry verticals, organizations and even individuals. Increases in the[...]

Oracle Files Lawsuit Over $10bn Pentagon Cloud Contract

Oracle has again launched legal proceedings over the US Pentagon's single-vendor cloud contract, filing a suit against the Department of Defence in the US Court of Federal Claims.

New Side-Channel Attacks Target Graphics Processing Units

A new brand of side-channel vulnerabilities has been disclosed and this time it's not the CPU that's under attack: it's the GPU.