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Technically awards season has ended, at least when it comes to Hollywood. There. were some big wins for Oppenheimer, and who wasn’t feeling the Kenergy? 2024 is also shaping up as a big year for 11:11, as we’ve already brought home several awards. And now we have been awarded the 2024 Cloud Computing Product of the Year Award for 11:11 Cloud , presented by presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.

As Windows organizations migrate toward cloud-based environments, they often lose context of their full stack. In addition to securing their on-premises servers, they now need to deal with virtual servers, managed services, and platform-as-a-service offerings. Cloud-based resources require organizations to relinquish control over physical infrastructure and limit their access to underlying operating systems.

New data shows that the attacks IT feels most inadequate to stop are the ones they’re experiencing the most. According to Keeper Security’s latest report, The Future of Defense: IT Leaders Brace for Unprecedented Cyber Threats, the most serious emerging types of technologies being used in modern cyber attacks lead with AI-powered attacks and deepfake technology. By itself, this information wouldn’t be that damning.

Google has issued a security advisory to owners of its Android Pixel smartphones, warning that it has discovered someone has been targeting some devices to bypass their built-in security. What makes the reported attacks particularly interesting is that traditional cybercriminals may not be behind them, but rather "forensic companies" exploiting two vulnerabilities to extract information and prevent remote wiping.

Granting privileged access to an end user’s device is a common practice in organizations. Admins do it to give end users the ability to manage administrative tasks such as downloading applications and accessing resources on their devices. It can be done manually, which is cumbersome and introduces risks. Or it can be managed to improve user productivity without requiring additional IT help or intervention, so that IT can focus on higher priority tasks.

In this guest blog post, Marcus Hallberg and Attila Dulovics, senior security engineers at Spotify, share a Tines workflow they built to create identity federation between GCP and AWS. As modern organizations continue their journey into the cloud, they face the complex reality of a mix of cloud providers and on-premise infrastructure. This often happens due to acquisitions being made, necessary partner integrations, or other business and technical requirements that create a multi-cloud setup over time.