Defending Your Cloud Workload
The Essential Features of a Comprehensive Cloud Workload Protection Platform As organizations transformed their nature from being reliant on on-prem data centers to cloud-based applications, ensuring their security has become increasingly important. A Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) is a security technology explicitly designed to detect and mitigate security threats within these applications. CWPPs offer […]
Shifting Left With DevSecOps : Need Of The Hour
What is DevSecOps? DevSecOps is a culture that involves incorporating security practises into the DevOps process. DevSecOps entails fostering a culture of ‘Security as Code,’ with continuous, versatile cooperation between release engineers and security teams. DevSecOps, like DevOps, is focused on developing innovative methods for complex software development processes through an agile system. DevSecOps is […]
Role of end-users in securing the cloud
Cloud security is a shared responsibility of the cloud end-user and the vendor. Your cloud vendor will make sure that you have what you need to run applications on the cloud. But, the vendor won’t take security responsibility beyond what they promise in the agreement. So, as end-users, you should take the necessary steps in securing […]
How to Protect Non-Human Privileged Identities?
Some organizations have tried to manage non-human identities manually. But as noted by Gartner, many of these manual methods don’t operate with modern cloud environments. They succeed only in deepening the silos of departmental processes and tools, thereby further limiting the ability of organizations to maintain visibility of their machine identities throughout their networks. Due to such […]
What is a Non-Human Privileged Identity?
With digital transformation comes the move to the public cloud. It requires a retooling of your security strategy from the ground up. The rise in the number of identities in the public cloud is a risk that you simply can’t ignore. Privileged identity is a term used to designate the special identities that have access […]
Protect your Privileges in the Cloud
As organizations deploy new cloud environments and services, they introduce thousands of identity-based permissions that must be securely configured and continuously managed. At the same time the number of users and applications with privileged access – including both human and machine identities – skyrockets. Additionally, the cloud environments are always changing and this combined with […]
Integrated DevOps Security by PaloAlto
Why does it seem so hard to consistently deploy secure application infrastructure in the public cloud? Gartner predicts that by 2025, 99% of cloud security breaches will be the customer’s fault. The majority of the problems stem from the insecure configuration of application infrastructure and vulnerabilities in container images. Why does it seem so hard […]