CEOs, when it comes to your organization's security posture, you can never be too aggressive. And while there are many different security technologies and practices you can implement, penetration testing should be high on your list. Here's why penetration testing should be your favorite security tool.
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Over the past several years, hackers have gone from targeting only companies to also targeting their supply chain. One area of particular vulnerability is company software supply chains, which are becoming an increasingly common method of gaining access to valuable business information. A study by Gartner predicted that by 2025, 45% of companies will have experienced a supply chain attack.
The CrowdStrike eBook, “Protectors of the Cloud: Combating the Rise in Threats to Cloud Environments,” reveals how adversaries target and infiltrate cloud environments and recommends best practices for defense. As organizations move critical applications and data to the cloud, these resources have come under increasing attack.
AWS offers a large spectrum of services and compute. The “shared responsibility” model in cloud presents a simplified structure of organization responsibilities and cloud provider responsibilities. Generally, identity and access management (IAM), applications, and data form the dividing line, but lines blur depending on the given cloud service the organization is consuming. This is true of all cloud providers, including the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
In the present age, when data has become a significant aspect of every business application, more pieces of information have been stored and processed. The security and quality of that information are vital to protect the health of the data throughout its lifecycle. Implementing measures that preserve the integrity of the data is increasingly vital for organisations around the world.
SCITT in the information security context stands for “Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust”. It’s a relatively young discipline and the dust is still settling over its scope and definition but the core is very simple: risk vests in the operator of equipment, but it originates at every point in the supply chain.
