In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the collaborative effort between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in issuing five joint Cybersecurity Information Sheets (CSIs) marks a significant milestone in guiding organizations towards secure cloud adoption. These documents serve as a testament to the critical nature of securing cloud services in an era where digital transformation is not just an option, but a necessity.

Identity and access management (IAM) provides a consistent, centralized solution to manage user identities and automate access control throughout the organization. This helps security leaders introduce role-based access control and meet governance, risk, and compliance goals. Your organization may already have centralized management policies in place. For example, requiring employees to use a VPN when accessing company assets remotely shows an IAM solution in action.

At AWS Re:Invent 2021 in the keynote address, AWS CTO Werner Vogels, invested a significant chunk of time in zooming in on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) of what he called the Everywhere Cloud. He emphasized that while often being underestimated or overlooked - IAM, remains a critical aspect of our overall security posture. ‍ ‍

CloudCasa by Catalogic can be installed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters using Ubuntu and perform migrations to Azure Linux as the host operating system. The Azure Linux container host for AKS is a lightweight, secure, and reliable OS platform optimized for performance on Azure.

The next 12 months have the potential to reshape the global political landscape with elections occurring in more than 80 nations, in 2024, while new technologies, such as AI, capture our imagination and pose new security challenges. Against this backdrop, the role of CISOs has never been more important. Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s Chief Security Officer, shared his views on what the biggest challenges currently facing the security industry are in the Security Week opening blog.