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Evolving Threats in the Cloud and What They Mean

As organizations move data and infrastructure into the cloud, they open themselves up to new and novel cyber threats, often without realizing it. In this Fal.Con 2022 session, Duke McDonald, Strategic Threat Advisor, CrowdStrike, explains how to not only highlight threats in the cloud based on real adversary tactics and attacks, but also how to meaningfully address these risks.

Trustwave Recognized in the IDC MarketScape for Managed Cloud Security Services for the Multi-cloud Era

Trustwave has been recognized in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Cloud Security Services in the Multicloud Era Vendor Assessment (doc #US48761022, September 2022). Trustwave, a pure-play cybersecurity services provider, is well positioned in the market. It shows the market acceptance for specialized security skills from its MSS providers.

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.

How is AI bias contained in Identity Verification Solutions?

In the context of digital onboarding, demographic features such as ethnicity, age, gender, socioeconomic circumstances, and even camera/device quality might affect the software’s capacity to match one face to a database of faces i.e. AI Bias. The quality and resilience of the underlying database in various sorts of surveillance might feed bias in the AI models. Biometrics are used in modern face recognition software to map facial traits from an image or video.

10 Tips to Keep Your Cloud Storage Safe and Secure

Across the globe, we are all now always connected. People now share, upload, and download information from their phones or computers. Cloud-based storage has become incredibly popular because everything is accessible. And with multiple devices synced, you'll never have to worry about forgetting a file again. However, it's not without risks. If someone gets access to your account credentials, they could potentially view all your data stored in the cloud.

Cloud security fundamentals part 1: Know your environment

140,000 Social Security numbers and about 80,000 bank account numbers — that’s what one attacker stole from a major financial institution back in 2019. How did it happen? The attacker used firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation and hack into improperly secured Amazon cloud instances.

The 6 Biggest Challenges of REST API Testing

Securing REST APIs is particularly difficult since they are highly interconnected and not designed for manual access. To save time and be more efficient, many developers rely on testing solutions that can automatically detect REST API endpoints and test parameter properties within them. In this article, I want to provide an overview of the 6 biggest challenges of REST API security testing and how test automation can help resolve them.