Barracuda Networks launches Cloud Security Guardian for Azure
Barracuda Networks has launched a security service that helps organizations to automate the security of Microsoft's Azure cloud. This concerns the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution Cloud Security Guardian for Microsoft Azure.
According to Alain Luxembourg, regional director Benelux at Barracuda,... Read more
Microsoft makes Azure Security Center for IoT widely available
Microsoft has made its Azure Security Center for IoT publicly available. The service, introduced in March, focuses on end-to-end threat protection and security management for Internet of Things (IoT) environments.
Azure Security Center for IoT makes it easier for users to identify threats, unsafe se... Read more
Hundreds of AWS backups leak sensitive data
Various companies, start-ups and governments are leaking their own files from the cloud. This is shown by new research presented at Def Con. The problem lies in the Elastic Block Storage snapshots by AWS.
The Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots are, according to Ben Morris, a security analyst at B... Read more
McAfee takes over NanoSec for an unknown amount of money
McAfee has announced the acquisition of NanoSec. By attracting the startup, McAfee wants to further expand the possibilities of container and cloud security. The amount of money involved in the takeover has not been disclosed.
McAfee will integrate NanoSec's products and technology into its MVISION ... Read more
Microsoft launches new Azure Security Lab
Microsoft launched its new Azure Security Lab during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. This is intended to strengthen the security of the company's public cloud service.
Azure Security Lab is an isolated set of cloud hosts designed to be tested by security professionals, writes Silicon Angle... Read more
34 million vulnerabilities found at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
Security researchers at Unit 42 claim to have found more than 34 million vulnerabilities with various cloud service providers. The vulnerabilities are in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The vulnerabilities are described in Unit 42's Cloud Threat Risk Report, cov... Read more
Israeli NSO Group claims to be able to steal data from iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive
The Israeli company NSO Group has told its customers that its technology can retrieve data from users of the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. That's what sources familiar with the sales pitch to The Financial Times say.
The NSO Group is a company that develops spyware for go... Read more
Low confidence in user data security among IT professionals
According to a study by BlackBerry, there is a very low level of trust among IT departments in the Western world in terms of securing employees' user data, reports ITProPortal. The report on the study was published after a survey of 500 IT professionals from six Western countries.
Of these 500 respo... Read more
Sumo Logic launches threat benchmarking for Amazon Web Services
Sumo Logic launches a new Global Intelligence Service for Amazon GuardDuty, a Machine Data Analysis platform that provides insights that allow customers to compare themselves to other users of Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure, reports BetaNews. They can also improve their cloud security, th... Read more