Azure Security Best Practices: Don't Get Caught with Your Cloud Pants Down Executive Summary The cloud isn't some futuristic fantasy anymore, folks. It's the backbone of modern business, and Azure is charging hard, fueled by AI, to potentially dethrone AWS by 2026. But with this breakneck adoption comes a harsh reality: security can't be an afterthought.

Most modern organizations have complex IT infrastructures made up of various components like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), public cloud, and sometimes hybrid environments. While these infrastructures bring significant benefits, including improved scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, increasing complexity has made it challenging for security teams to secure the data stored in these environments adequately.

In the early days of cloud security, like in the early days of endpoint, the focus was on prevention. This makes sense: preventative measures are an essential way to reduce risk. Blocking known threats and attack paths makes sense as a way to harden an organization’s cloud estate. For many organizations, a prevention-only strategy in the cloud might seem completely sufficient for reducing risk – and it is to an extent. But prevention alone can only go so far.

Cloud technology is rapidly becoming necessary for everyone to secure data online. Still, it has never been more important for businesses to evolve to the shifting digital landscape and migrate their data to the cloud. The public cloud computing market is estimated to be $675 billion this year, and it includes services related to business processes, platforms, infrastructure, and software.

We’re thrilled to announce that Jit has achieved the AWS Security Competency, a significant milestone that underscores our commitment to revolutionizing product security for developers and security teams alike. This recognition from AWS validates our leadership in the security space and highlights the value we bring to organizations looking to embed automated security into their development workflows.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are cyberattacks that aim to overwhelm and disrupt online services, making them inaccessible to users. By leveraging a network of distributed devices, DDoS attacks flood the target system with excessive requests, consuming its bandwidth or exhausting compute resources to the point of failure. These attacks can be highly effective against unprotected sites and relatively inexpensive for attackers to launch.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud, allowing for software and hardware-based or hosted in the cloud and providing computing, analytical, storage, and networking services. From these services, the users can selectively take what they want to build new applications in the public cloud or migrate other applications already running to the public cloud.

IONIX today announced the release of our Cloud Exposure Validator, a tool designed to reduce cloud vulnerability management noise shifting focus to findings that represent the biggest threats. The Validator addresses the growing challenges organizations face in managing cloud security risks effectively. This blog post explains how.

Tanium bridges the gap between posture and runtime protection for containerized environments.