Security never rests. Especially at the speed and scale of cloud workloads. Have you heard that VMware announced our collaboration for bringing self-healing as a service for cloud-native workloads communicating via VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX? We’ve been getting a lot of questions on the topic and so consider this a first stab at spelling out what we’re doing with Tanzu Service Mesh. You can expect much more detail in the coming weeks.

We’re excited to introduce Axis Security! Application access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders is an essential component of an efficient, modern organization. Axis Security emerged from stealth mode today to solve this problem with a new approach designed to make private application access amazingly simple.

The Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) is a security assessment provided by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) for cloud consumers and auditors to assess information security capabilities of cloud providers.

The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) has put together a short guidance document on mitigating vulnerabilities for cloud computing. At only eight pages, it is an accessible primer for cloud security and a great place to start before taking on something like the comprehensive NIST 800-53 security controls.

Check Point researchers recently published two vulnerabilities they’d found in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. These flaws highlight a wave of potential attacks on cloud infrastructure and the exposure of workloads running in multi-tenant cloud environments.