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The cloud stands as a revolutionary force, redefining the way businesses operate, collaborate and innovate. Its scalability, flexibility and accessibility have transformed industries, offering a wealth of opportunities for organizations of all sizes. However, with these advancements come significant security concerns, particularly in managing access to sensitive data and critical systems.

You may know Cloudflare as the company powering nearly 20% of the web. But powering and protecting websites and static content is only a fraction of what we do. In fact, well over half of the dynamic traffic on our network consists not of web pages, but of Application Programming Interface (API) traffic — the plumbing that makes technology work.

The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution has set the beginning of a new age of data transfer. Each day, a massive number of new devices get added to all kinds of network infrastructures, transferring gargantuan amounts of data back and forth. In the next decade, we expect the number of IoTs to grow to a staggering 207 billion connected devices – practically outnumbering the human population tenfold.

Many are speculating that at long last, OpenAI’s GPT store is set to go live this week. GPT builders and developers received an email on January 4th notifying them of the launch, which has been rumored for months, and likely only delayed due to the drama that has taken place at the company. This blog will summarize what this means for citizen development and how security teams should approach this new technological breakthrough from the AI giant.

Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform, along with the premium products that are built upon them, are open platforms, which allow third party products to query data within Splunk for further use case development. In this blog, we will cover using Amazon SageMaker as the ISV product using the data within Splunk to further develop a fraud detection use case to predict future risk scores.

Scientific progress in AI and downstream innovation to solve concrete real-world problems is part of a greater movement toward inventing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Broadly speaking, AGI is defined as an intelligent agent that can emulate and surpass human intelligence. Today, we are already familiar with incomplete forms of AGI: Despite these promising innovations moving from the scientific domain to consumer marketplaces, we are still far from achieving AGI.

This blog is part of a series about how to use Vanta and AWS to simplify your organization’s cloud security. To learn more about how to use Vanta and AWS, watch our Coffee and Compliance on-demand webinar. ‍ Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the most popular cloud providers for organizations today — providing one of the most flexible and secure cloud environments available.

After serving as its steward for over a decade, Trustwave has agreed to transfer the reins of the renowned open-source web application firewall (WAF) engine, ModSecurity, to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP). This landmark move promises to inject fresh energy and perspectives into the project, ensuring its continued evolution as a vital line of defense for countless websites worldwide.

The Sysdig Threat Research Team discovered techniques that allowed the AWS WAF to be bypassed using a specialized DOM event. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) serve as the first line of defense for your web applications, acting as a filter between your application and incoming web traffic to protect against unauthorized or malicious activity. In this blog post, we will analyze one of the most commonly used Web Application Firewalls, the AWS WAF, and explain ways that allowed it to be bypassed.