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.

Microservices provide great benefits to development organizations. They enable multiple autonomous development teams to work on the same application, maintaining efficiency,speed, and utilization of modern resources such as open source, containers and programming languages. The Microservice paradigm simplifies application building,debugging, management, deployment, scalability and of course time to market.

Beyond creating and deploying software, security should be the biggest focus of technological development. No matter how cool something is, if it isn’t secure, if it cannot protect the information it contains, it will ultimately fail – or be the subject of enough major lawsuits that it will be shut down or have to disappear.

While the move to microservices-based architecture is relatively new, it is already mainstream. A majority of companies are choosing it as their default architecture for new development,and you are not cool if you are not using microservices. With regards to migrating legacy apps and breaking them down to microservices, companies are showing more conservatism, and rightly so.

Migrating our data to the cloud to digitally transform and streamline your IT environment is easier than ever. Cloud security is in a place where it is stronger than on-premise security and The Big Three – AWS, Microsoft, and Google – have more access to resources and personnel than you can ever dream of. For infrastructure security, they’re the best. So why are so many companies still concerned with moving their data to the cloud?

Alice keeps all her passwords in an Excel file on her desktop. However, she was told it is a very bad practice, since Eve can easily get access to the computer, read the file,and access Alice passwords and accounts. To enhance her security, Alice got a password protection software, KeePass, and she now saves all her passwords safely there – except for her KeePass password, which Alice keeps in an Excel file on her desktop. ‍Good news for Eve...