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Top 5 Tips on Avoiding Cloud Misconfigurations

Cloud misconfigurations can cause devastating financial and reputational damage to organizations. Yet, such undesirable circumstances can be avoided by understanding the common misconfiguration errors and mitigating them before malicious actors can exploit them. Ava Chawla, AlgoSec’s Global Head of Security provides some valuable insights on cloud misconfigurations and offers useful tips on how to avoid them.

Why organizations need to embrace new thinking in how they tackle hybrid cloud security challenges

Hybrid cloud computing enables organizations to deploy sensitive workloads on-premise or in a private cloud, while hosting less business-critical resources on public clouds. But despite its many benefits, the hybrid environment also creates security concerns. AlgoSec’s co-founder and CTO, Prof. Avishai Wool shares his expert insights on these concerns and offers best practices to boost hybrid cloud security.

Why misconfigurations continue to plague public cloud network services and how to avoid them

Cloud security as a strategy is constantly evolving to meet the needs of organizations for scale, agility, and security. If your organization is weighing the merits of the use of public cloud versus private cloud, here are a few facts to keep in mind.

Assessing the Value of Network Segmentation from a Business Application Perspective

The concept of micro-segmentation as an approach to cloud-native security has gained traction among security experts but being able to deliver it operationally is still seen as work in progress by network and SecOps teams. This research looks at the current state of micro-segmentation and sheds light on the merits of an application-centric approach to its use in enterprise environments. Its main topics delve into the core issues that dominate the cybersecurity conversation today.

6 best practices to stay secure in the hybrid cloud

Every year we witness more organizations of all sizes investing more in the cloud. A recent report by the Cloud Security Alliance and AlgoSec shows that over half of organizations are running 41% or more of their workload in the public cloud, and 62% of organizations are running multi-cloud environments. With organizations running workloads in complex hybrid networks - public, private, and on-premises networks - the security landscape is getting even more complex. There are actions you can take, though, to help you dissolve the complexities.

How to Make Container Security Threats More Containable

As cloud adoption and digital transformation increases, more sensitive data from applications is being stored in data containers. This is why effective container security controls to securely manage application connectivity is an absolute must. AlgoSec CTO and Co-Founder, Prof. Avishai Wool provides some useful container security best practices to help you do just that.