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NEW TECH: Silverfort helps companies carry out smarter human and machine authentications

The Last Watchdog

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Related: Locking down ‘machine identities’ At the moment, companies are being confronted with a two-pronged friction challenge, when it comes to authentication. LW: What obstacles are companies running into with cloud migration?

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GUEST ESSAY: The key to a successful cloud migration – embrace a security-first strategy

The Last Watchdog

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud alone is set to top $500 billion in 2022 – a 20% growth over last year. But often overlooked in the migration process is the significance of a company’s embedded security measures. A multi-layered defense is an essential component of any winning cloud cybersecurity posture.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. This is true of the U.S. and other regions as well.

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Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. The acceleration of cloud migration and the proliferation of containers, microservices and IoT devices have placed identity in the center of corporate security, making identity and access management (IAM) as important as never before.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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MY TAKE: A few reasons to believe RSAC 2023’s ‘stronger together’ theme is gaining traction

The Last Watchdog

Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors. New security platforms that can set cloud configurations wisely, automate detection and response and manage vulnerabilities continuously are needed to form the front line of defense.

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RSAC insights: ‘CAASM’ tools and practices get into the nitty gritty of closing network security gaps

The Last Watchdog

Both the technology and the teams responsible for specific cyber assets tend to operate in silos. This is more so true as organizations accelerate cloud migration and dive deeper into an interconnected digital ecosystem. However, you have an external-facing workload that has an authentication policy giving it API level access.