Tines is delighted to announce we have joined the AWS Partner Network as a Select Partner, and our no-code automation platform is now live on AWS Marketplace. Additionally, we are very proud to have recently won an AWS Software Startup Award. The awards were created to shine a spotlight on innovative B2B/SaaS startups in the UK and Ireland.
With the constant threat of malware weighing on cloud teams, AWS is introducing new ways to identify malicious software with Amazon GuardDuty. Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection, a fully managed malware detection service launched today at Re:inforce by AWS, provides agentless scanning to identify when suspicious activity occurs.
Researchers from ESET have shed light on a new macOS backdoor, discovered in April 2022, dubbed CloudMensis. At first glance this is just the latest example of spyware targeting the Apple operating system with the intent of exfiltrating documents, keystrokes, and screen captures. However, as the name suggests, one of the interesting features of this malware is a sophisticated two-stage kill chain that exploits legitimate cloud services in different phases of the attack.
The typical life of a consultant working in the field of governance, risk and compliance is often not deeply technical, but we have to be aware of new technology and the risks it poses; this is very true when it comes to Cloud, and with the massive adoption of Cloud as the vast majority of organizations now use cloud services on some level.
I am very pleased and proud to share the big news that Devo is now an AWS Security Competency Partner. This is a significant milestone for Devo and it’s important for our current and future customers and partners. This designation validates that Devo has successfully met AWS’s technical and quality requirements for providing customers with a deep level of expertise in threat detection and response.
Protecting and managing Google Cloud environments just got easier. Rubrik Cloud Native Protection is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Since 2019, Rubrik has been a trusted Google Cloud partner helping organizations enable data protection, automation, granular search, and world-class Zero Trust data security in the cloud. Rubrik helps organizations become cyber resilient through data immutability, logical air gapping, end-to-end encryption, and granular role-based access control.
Enterprises are embracing the cloud native paradigm for agility, scalability, composability, and portability. Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration engine, is the foundation of modern, cloud native workloads. AWS customers can leverage managed Kubernetes available in the form of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or deploy a cluster based on upstream Kubernetes distribution running in a set of Amazon EC2 instances.
As organisations speed up their cloud migration strategies, security remains a prime concern. Despite the adoption of various security solutions on cloud computing platforms, we continue to see detrimental data losses and cybersecurity breaches being reported. The consequences of such an event range from financial losses and fines, to reputational damages which lead to a loss of market share.
Snyk’s Chief Architect, Josh Stella, recently hosted a webinar about cloud security. Stella was the co-founder and CEO of Fugue, a cloud security and compliance company that was acquired by Snyk. With the capabilities of Fugue, Snyk will bring its developer-first security platform into the cloud security space. During this talk, Stella discussed the missing story in every cloud breach: the tale of how, when, and where attackers operate in the cloud.
