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A Real-World Look at AWS Best Practices: Root Accounts

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.

A hacker's approach to finding security bugs in open source software

Spencer Pearlman, Security Researcher at Detectify, presented A Hacker’s Approach to Finding Security Bugs in Open Source Software in a partnered webinar with friends at Debricked. Securing modern web applications takes new approaches, and this includes looking at it from a hacker’s perspective. Here are highlights from the presentation on how tech teams can apply the same hacker mindset to discover vulnerabilities in open-source software in their tech stack.

The Ultimate Guide To OWASP Security Checks for Web and Mobile Apps

When you are looking for genuine, inexpensive unbiased information to make your application secure, there is no better source to go to than OWASP. OWASP gives you guidelines to the industry's top threats and security best practices that help ensure your applications are secured. Take a look at this FREE OWASP Guide that covers vulnerabilities from both web and mobile to give you a comprehensive overview of your application's security status.

Detect unauthorized third parties in your AWS account

Detecting when an unauthorized third party is accessing your AWS account is critical to ensuring your account remains secure. For example, an attacker may have gained access to your environment and created a backdoor to maintain persistence within your environment. Another common (and more frequent) type of unauthorized access can happen when a developer sets up a third-party tool and grants it access to your account to monitor your infrastructure for operations or optimize your bill.

Cloud SIEM accelerates modernizing security operations across Asia Pacific

Security operations is now a critical business function tasked with securing digital transformation initiatives, to effectively mitigate evolving attacks and expanding attack surfaces, handle complexity and tool proliferation while teams are continuing to be virtual and distributed.

Adopting a cloud first strategy for modernizing security operations

In this session, Scott Crawford, Research Director with 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, highlights research on how enterprises are responding to digital transformation. In addition, Girish Bhat, VP with Sumo Logic offers insights for security practitioners on how a ‘cloud first’ approach supports digital transformation, IT rebuild projects and application modernization.

Bridging the Cybersecurity frontier: SaaS

Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the most important parts of the modern digital business. Unfortunately, when it comes to cybercrime, it can also be one of the weakest. The Cybersecurity newsletter, The Hacker News, have highlighted this in detail, noting interest from across the digital industry in addressing the holes created by misconfigured SaaS setups.

Elevate Your Cloud Security Posture with Splunk and Google Cloud

It’s more critical than ever to secure your company data and protect your workloads in the cloud. This blog post is a roundup of the latest technical resources and product capabilities by both Google Cloud and Splunk to enhance your threat prevention, detection, and response techniques, regardless of where you are in your business-transforming cloud journey.