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Cloud security series: What are the most common cloud security challenges?

In the second of our three-part series, we highlight the most common cloud security challenges. When migrating infrastructure and services to the cloud it is vital to establish a clear strategy to avoid new security risks. As moving to the cloud can vastly widen the attack surface, it’s important to check whether current security controls will still be effective when migration is complete.

Building a Security Alliance with Your Cloud Partners

As more infrastructure is moved to the cloud, there are many opportunities to reconsider your security stance and relationships to build ever stronger and more secure IT solutions whilst reducing your security costs. In this post, I’m looking to explore some ways that you can build out your alliances to be better prepared and battle-worthy on the digital security war front.

Say What? Natural Language Processing Improves Cloud Security

This is the third entry in a series of articles focused on AI/ML. Natural language processing (NLP) is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that gives machines the ability to read, understand, and derive meaning from human languages. NLP powers many applications that we use every day, such as virtual assistants, machine translation, chatbots, and email auto-complete. The technology is still evolving very quickly.

Webinar | Teleport v4.4 | Release Demo |

Join Director of Product Ben Arent and CEO Ev Kontsevoy to learn about Teleport’s newest iteration! Teleport 4.4 enables greater visibility into access and behavior by adding Concurrent Session Control features to limit the number of concurrent sessions. Additionally, it can now restrict session sharing and handle idle sessions automatically, making it possible for the user to meet stronger compliance requirements. Ben and Ev will detail these new features, give a demo to show what they will look like in action, and answer all your burning questions.

Why proactive mobile app defense is a must-have for financial services

Consumer financial institutions are in the midst of a digital transformation that includes moving traditional face-to-face customer interactions to mobile devices. Forty-three percent of people who own a mobile device and have a bank account use mobile banking, according to a Federal Reserve study titled, "Consumers and Mobile Financial Services." Mobile banking creates unprecedented conveniences for customers, such as mobile check deposits, near-instant person-to-person transfers, and access to personal financial accounts in real time.

The Spectrum of Mobile Risk

The time has come for enterprise risk management to change. Mobile devices have become core to our personal and professional lives, yet most enterprises remain focused on traditional PC endpoints. Although many of the same elements of risk that affect PCs also apply to mobile endpoints, simply extending current PC security controls to your mobile fleet is ineffective. Enterprise risk management needs to evolve to address mobile risks, and security professionals must architect mobile-specific security.

Beware of Google Docs Spam

Netskope Threat Labs is warning users to be careful of spam messages being shared via Google Docs. The spam messages come in the form of a comment on a document or presentations and are sent by [email protected]. Both the comment and the document link the user to a spam or scam website. Because the messages are sent by Google Docs, it is likely that your spam filters do not detect and block these messages. In fact, docs.google.com may be explicitly allowed by your spam filters.

Lookout and Verizon Committed to Protecting Small Businesses with the Launch of Business Mobile Secure

Our mission has always been to secure the mobile experience and for many in our current climate, that means protecting employees as they work from home. Verizon recently announced the launch of Business Mobile Secure, a full security solution designed specifically for small and medium business customers with Lookout mobile security at the helm of the bundle’s modern endpoint protection offerings.

How to Set Up an SSH Jump Server

In this blog post we’ll cover how to set up an SSH jump server. We’ll cover two open source projects. Both of these servers are easy to install and configure, are free and open-source, and are single-binary Linux daemons. An SSH jump server is a regular Linux server, accessible from the Internet, which is used as a gateway to access other Linux machines on a private network using the SSH protocol.

4 Considerations for a Secure Cloud Environment

Digital attackers are increasingly turning their attention to the cloud. According to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report, the volume of attacks targeting cloud services more than doubled 7% in 2018 to 20% a year later. This growth made cloud services the third most-targeted environment after corporate and e-commerce at 54% and 22%, respectively. These trends highlight the need for organizations to secure their cloud environments.