Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

There is no doubt that Google is one of the most innovative companies. In fact, if you want to find or compare others, you'll likely Google it. From search engines to smartphones, it has shaped our digital lives. And with its cloud solution, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), its impact in the cloud arena is no different. However, no amount of innovation can make GCP attack-proof. The cloud is home to increasingly more threats, and they come with a hefty price tag.

Programs and apps are a manifestation of ideas in a digital format. If you can dream it in other languages, WebAssembly can deliver it to the browser. From games ported from Unity to PDF editing on the web and leveraging interactive data from Jupyter and Rust, WebAssembly’s use cases are countless. WebAssembly (Wasm) is gaining traction to deliver high-performance client-side code that often cannot be created or executed by JavaScript, at least not in a performant way.

We often talk about the disparate experience in the security ecosystem versus the dev-tooling world. Where developer experience has begun taking center stage in the world of dev-first and cloud native, security experience is still quite lacking across the board in our ecosystem. (I would try to coin the term DevSecEx similar to DevSecOps with a focus on DevEx, but it just doesn’t have the same ring.

JIT’s own CTO & Co-founder, David Melamed, had the opportunity to participate in KubeDaily’s DevSecOps Conf 2022 this weekend in partnership with Docker Bangalore and the CNCF, with a really great talk on Open Policy Agent as a Control Engine.

It’s no longer a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’ and ‘how’ cyber threats will target an organization. This reality demands a proactive approach to digital security. Recent data shows that over 85% of organizations have experienced a cyber attack supporting this need for vigilance. These incidents range from data breaches to brand impersonation, each carrying significant risks to business integrity and continuity.

Businesses have come a long way in their individual journeys to digital transformation, all to enhance their customer and workforce experiences. This shift elevated the importance of both Application Security (AppSec) and Cloud Security (CloudSec) in safeguarding digital assets and ensuring infrastructure resilience.

With so many cyber security priorities to balance, it isn’t always easy to know where to start. The mistake that many organisations make is to view threats originating from outside as their sole focus. However, with insider threats proving a persistent presence, this can often be a very costly oversight. This guide seeks to provide clarity on the different types of insider threats you need to be aware of and the controls and processes you can put in place to defend against them.