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Taking a Look at AWS and Cloud Security Monitoring

More and more companies understand the benefits of cloud computing, which is making their migration to the cloud more rapid. Per IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Study, 81% of organizations said that they’ve migrated either one application or a portion of their infrastructure to the cloud. The reasons why a company would shift its services towards the cloud depend on its business priorities, of course.

Monitor AWS FSx audit logs with Datadog

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed file storage service built on Windows Server. Migrating on-premise Windows file systems to a managed service like FSx enables organizations to reduce operational overhead and take advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. But having visibility into file access activity across their environment is key for security and compliance requirements, particularly in sectors such as financial services and healthcare.

Website Security Checklist | How to secure your site in 2021?

Website security should be a concern for any business owner because attackers are becoming much more sophisticated and are always looking for ways to get into customer databases even without exploiting the victim directly. In this blog, we are sharing a website security checklist to help website owners improve their websites against the most common cyber attacks.

Weekly Cyber Security News 30/07/2021

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24 . Quite a serious data breach which could have repercussions, perhaps not as bad as if it happened in other countries where gun crime is more prevalent, nevertheless it is still a concern.

Cloud Threats Memo: Learning From Recent Cloud Storage Misconfiguration Incidents

It’s time to update the list of security incidents caused by misconfiguration of cloud storage resources since the last couple of weeks have unfortunately been quite prolific. The shared responsibility model continues to be overlooked, or simply misunderstood by too many organizations, and as a consequence tons of sensitive data is leaked from the cloud on a daily basis, putting thousands of individuals (and dozens of municipalities) at risk of fraud, identity theft, and phishing campaigns.

How to Spot C2 Traffic on Your Network

Attackers often hide their command and control (C2) activity using techniques like encryption, tunneling in noisy traffic like DNS, or domain generation algorithms to evade blacklists. Reliably spotting C2 traffic requires a comprehensive network security monitoring capability like open source Zeek that transforms packets into connection-linked protocol logs that let analysts make fast sense of traffic. Corelight’s commercial NDR solutions generate this Zeek network evidence and also provide dozens of proprietary C2 insights and detections.

A SANS 2021 Report Top New Attacks and Threat Report

In the SANS 2021 Top New Attacks and Threat Report, John Pescatore provides insight into the threats highlighted during the SANS panel discussion at the 2021 RSA Conference. This webcast will include practical advice from the paper, including insights from SANS instructors Ed Skoudis, Heather Mahalik, Johannes Ullrich, and Katie Nickels on the critical skills, processes and controls needed to protect their enterprises from these advanced attacks.