Coined by Gartner in 2022, continuous threat exposure management, or CTEM is a structured framework for continuously assessing, prioritizing, validating, and remediating vulnerabilities across an organization’s attack surface, enabling you to respond effectively to the most pressing threats over an ever-expanding attack surface. Reactive security is a temporary fix, not a sustainable solution.

With cloud infrastructures expanding across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud models, effective security monitoring is essential. Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security suggests that NDR solutions are becoming critical in these diverse environments and could reach widespread adoption within the next two to five years. This trend underscores the importance of NDR for visibility and rapid threat detection in today’s complex cloud landscapes (see Figure 1).

Are you concerned about the security of your AWS environment? With over 73% of businesses having at least one critical security misconfiguration, it's essential to take proactive measures to protect your data and applications. While AWS is responsible for the security of the underlying infrastructure, you are responsible for securing your data and applications in the cloud.

In 2024, Thanksgiving (November 28), Black Friday (November 29), and Cyber Monday (December 2) significantly impacted Internet traffic, similar to trends seen in 2023 and previous years. This year, Thanksgiving in the US drove a 20% drop in daily traffic compared to the previous week, with a notable 33% dip at 15:45 ET. In contrast, Black Friday and Cyber Monday drove traffic spikes. But how global is this trend, and do attacks increase during Cyber Week?

Cloud security operates on a different paradigm compared to traditional IT security. For example, it involves multiple contextual layers such as cloud services, containers and Kubernetes that require specialized insights. The challenge is even harder when the organization is affected by compliance requirements, and is compounded by the sheer volume of data that becomes a major concern for any organization. Failing to effectively manage it leads to costly inefficiencies and risks.

At Teleport we love modern infrastructure and open-source software, but don't like static credentials and passwords. This created a challenge for us when deploying Temporal, an open-source workflow automation software on EKS: Temporal always requires a password to authenticate to the backend RDS database. To solve this problem, we turned to Teleport Machine & Workload Identity.

Implement AI-driven security analytics faster on Elastic Cloud Serverless, the easiest way to harness the innovations of Elastic Security Elastic Security on Elastic Cloud Serverless is now generally available. You can launch a deployment in minutes — no prior experience required. Serverless projects are fully managed, minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) and providing immediate access to the powerful features of the Elastic Search AI Platform and Elastic Security.

The field of IT security has never been more complex or demanding. As organizations race to adopt digital technologies and modernize their infrastructures, they inadvertently create chaos that overwhelms security teams. This chaos is driven by three critical vectors: the rapid expansion of the attack surface, continual changes to existing assets, and the relentless emergence of new security threats.