Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

November 2024

AWS & 1Password: New integrations help strengthen security

When the tools in your security stack work together, it reduces administration overhead, lowers costs, and increases protection across your organization. That’s why we’ve spent the last year deepening our partnership and product integrations with AWS and other security providers in their ecosystem.

Aikido joins the AWS Partner Network

If you missed it, over the summer months launched our product on the AWS Marketplace with the promise to deliver the fastest “time-to-security” in the industry for new AWS users. We’ve also officially joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a validated AWS partner. This means we went through the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). We are FTR-approved* and meet the well-architected best practices enforced by AWS, not to brag. ;) Psst.

26 AWS Security Best Practices to Adopt in Production

One of the most important pillars of a well-architected framework is security. Thus, it is important to follow these AWS security best practices, organized by service, to prevent unnecessary security situations. So, you’ve got a problem to solve and turned to AWS to build and host your solution. You create your account and now you’re all set up to brew some coffee and sit down at your workstation to architect, code, build, and deploy. Except, you aren’t.

Fast, Secure, Seamless Connectivity to Your Critical Applications with Netskope One Private Access

Ensuring secure access to internal apps—whether hosted in data centers or the cloud—shouldn't mean compromising performance. Netskope One Private Access leverages Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technology to provide remote, secure connectivity, powered by the high-performance Netskope NewEdge Network.

Azure Security Best Practices

Azure Security Best Practices: Don't Get Caught with Your Cloud Pants Down Executive Summary The cloud isn't some futuristic fantasy anymore, folks. It's the backbone of modern business, and Azure is charging hard, fueled by AI, to potentially dethrone AWS by 2026. But with this breakneck adoption comes a harsh reality: security can't be an afterthought.

DSPM vs CSPM: Key Insights for Effective Cloud Security Management

Most modern organizations have complex IT infrastructures made up of various components like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), public cloud, and sometimes hybrid environments. While these infrastructures bring significant benefits, including improved scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, increasing complexity has made it challenging for security teams to secure the data stored in these environments adequately.

The Future (and Present) of the Internet, AI, and Tech with Nicholas Thompson

This week, host João Tomé is joined by Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, during his participation at Web Summit, the international event held in Lisbon with over 70,000 attendees. In this conversation, Thompson discusses the Internet, AI, social media, and the challenge of protecting content creators from AI crawlers—a problem Cloudflare’s AI Audit is designed to address. We also explore the 2024 media landscape, its future, and its role in supporting democracy.

Why you need to augment prevention-only posture with cloud detection and response

In the early days of cloud security, like in the early days of endpoint, the focus was on prevention. This makes sense: preventative measures are an essential way to reduce risk. Blocking known threats and attack paths makes sense as a way to harden an organization’s cloud estate. For many organizations, a prevention-only strategy in the cloud might seem completely sufficient for reducing risk – and it is to an extent. But prevention alone can only go so far.

Cloud Migration Strategies Your Business Needs to Know

Cloud technology is rapidly becoming necessary for everyone to secure data online. Still, it has never been more important for businesses to evolve to the shifting digital landscape and migrate their data to the cloud. The public cloud computing market is estimated to be $675 billion this year, and it includes services related to business processes, platforms, infrastructure, and software.

How to Identify Best Local Cyber Security Company

Did you know that Check Point reported a staggering 38% increase in cyber threats in 2022? This rise in threats makes strong cybersecurity more urgent than ever. Finding a reliable local cyber security company is crucial. Companies like SynchroNet offer more than just security; they understand local needs and respond quickly to emergencies.

Netskope One Advanced SSE for Microsoft Entra

Netskope One Advanced SSE for Microsoft Entra combines Netskope and Microsoft into a unified experience that enables the next generation of SSE. The combination of Netskope and Microsoft delivers flexibility with security to make secure access and advanced protection simple and accessible for Microsoft Entra customers.

Jit Achieves AWS Security Competency: A Milestone in Developer-First Security Innovation

We’re thrilled to announce that Jit has achieved the AWS Security Competency, a significant milestone that underscores our commitment to revolutionizing product security for developers and security teams alike. This recognition from AWS validates our leadership in the security space and highlights the value we bring to organizations looking to embed automated security into their development workflows.

Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are cyberattacks that aim to overwhelm and disrupt online services, making them inaccessible to users. By leveraging a network of distributed devices, DDoS attacks flood the target system with excessive requests, consuming its bandwidth or exhausting compute resources to the point of failure. These attacks can be highly effective against unprotected sites and relatively inexpensive for attackers to launch.

Azure Key Management Solution: Differentiate and Choose the Best As per the Requirement

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud, allowing for software and hardware-based or hosted in the cloud and providing computing, analytical, storage, and networking services. From these services, the users can selectively take what they want to build new applications in the public cloud or migrate other applications already running to the public cloud.

IONIX Launches Cloud Exposure Validator: Bringing CTEM to Cloud Security

IONIX today announced the release of our Cloud Exposure Validator, a tool designed to reduce cloud vulnerability management noise shifting focus to findings that represent the biggest threats. The Validator addresses the growing challenges organizations face in managing cloud security risks effectively. This blog post explains how.

Best practices for creating least-privilege AWS IAM policies

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables organizations to set up permissions policies for users and workloads that need access to cloud services and resources. But as your cloud environment scales, it can be challenging to create and audit IAM policies that work effectively without compromising security.

Azure DevOps Security Best Practices

Data-handling platforms such as Azure DevOps are often relied on by many different modern organizations, therefore it is important to secure such environments. These widely used platforms simplify DevOps processes like project management and the work of developers. However, there is a downside, the rise of technology brings an increased risk of cyber attacks.
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Building a Modern Identity Capability to Tackle DORA

Hackers are quickly taking advantage of every vulnerability in an organisation's armoury, particularly exploiting poorly managed identities. An organisation might have the strongest firewalls, encryption, anti-malware, vulnerability scanners, and risk management tools in the world, but if identities are not managed securely, this still leaves one critical gap in its cybersecurity arsenal.

JumpCloud Announces Its First Free Virtual Conference for IT Professionals

JumpCloud Inc. has opened registration for JumpCloudLand, its first-ever user conference taking place on 28th January 2025. JumpCloudLand is a free virtual event for IT professionals. It offers everything IT teams need to build skills, stay ahead of industry trends, and unlock opportunities for professional and organisational growth. Attendees will have the chance to meet industry leaders, exchange ideas with peers, and discover innovative ways to drive success for their teams and businesses.

How New CyberArk and Wiz Integrations Enhance Multi-Cloud Security

The adoption of cloud technology has transformed how organizations develop, deploy and oversee internal and customer-facing applications. Cloud workloads and services create efficiencies and introduce new access challenges. Multi-cloud environments—where organizations utilize services from multiple cloud solution providers (CSPs) like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure—offer exceptional flexibility and resilience but also present significant security challenges.

Top challenges for implementing multi-domain correlation in the cloud

Adversaries often use complex, multi-stage cloud attacks that evade traditional security measures, which struggle to fully visualize, prioritize, and respond to threats. Multi-domain correlation addresses this by analyzing data across diverse domains — including networks, applications, databases, and storage — to uncover potential weaknesses and attack paths across interconnected resources.

Six Ways To Spot Amazon Scam Emails

You can spot Amazon scam emails if you realize the sender’s email address is not from the official Amazon domain, the message contains a generic greeting and your email service provider warns you that the message may be dangerous. According to data collected by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 34,000 reports were made in 2023 about scammers impersonating Amazon, resulting in approximately $19 million in losses.

How building Cloudflare with Cloudflare helps developers (with Celso Martinho)

Celso Martinho is a Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare. He works across multiple teams from Radar to Workers AI in our new Cloudflare Lisbon offices. In this conversation, host João Tomé and Celso discuss the rapid growth of Cloudflare Workers, simplifying life for developers, and the importance of observability in AI. Celso also dives into how the challenges for developers have changed since the 1990s tech era and why he believes the Internet is still in its infancy.

Runtime security in multi-cloud environments: best practices and importance

Runtime security in multi-cloud environments encompasses the continuous monitoring and protection of cloud-based resources during their active operation. Unlike traditional security approaches that focus on static configurations or pre-deployment checks, runtime security emphasizes: This approach ensures that potential risks are identified and mitigated in real-time, providing an additional layer of protection against both known and emerging threats in complex multi-cloud setups.

The Role of Cloud Computing in Enhancing Cybersecurity

Cloud computing revolutionizes how organizations approach data security and threat prevention. The transformation of traditional security measures into cloud-based solutions marks a significant shift in protecting sensitive information and maintaining business continuity.

Adding runtime threat detection to Google Kubernetes Engine with Falco

One of the big advantages of running your workloads on a managed Kubernetes service like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is that Google ensures your clusters are being deployed and managed following industry best practices. While GKE clusters are incredibly secure and reliable, there is always room for improvement. In this blog, we’re going to describe how you can enhance GKE’s already great security by adding runtime threat detection with Falco.

Unveiling the Cloud's Hidden Risks: How to Gain Control of Your Cloud Environment

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the cloud has become an indispensable tool for businesses seeking agility and scalability. However, this migration also brings a new set of challenges, particularly when it comes to security. The increasing complexity and sophistication of cyber threats demand a proactive and comprehensive approach to safeguarding your cloud environments.

Intelligent Data Classification: Transforming Google Drive Security

Our customers often tell us about how they implement manual classification policies. However, with several hundreds of files created daily, and constant sharing between teams, it becomes impossible to enforce secure sharing and sensitive data protection. Imagine that your sales team just accidentally shared a spreadsheet containing customer credit card details with an external vendor. Or perhaps your HR department stored employee health records in a folder that wasn't properly restricted.

What is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Operations?

In this video, learn the following key points about Software-as-a-Service Operations (SaaS Ops): Resources and social media: Transcript: Organizations rely on SaaS applications more and more to get things done. But with so many specialized apps and different vendors, IT departments can get lost in the cloud. It’s easy to see why -- most organizations use over 100 SaaS apps in their day-to-day tasks. For an IT team, that’s a ton to manage.

How to Keep Your CCaaS Solution Secure

A Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solution offers your business the flexibility and scalability necessary to manage customer interactions efficiently. However, like most cloud-based systems, your CCaaS platform needs to be successfully secured to protect sensitive information and maintain regulatory compliance-all to ensure the trust of your customers. Ready to secure your CCaaS solution? Here are 7 steps you can take.

Navigating the Future: Cloud Migration Journeys and Data Security

For years, businesses have been chasing innovation with cloud platforms, moving beyond the limitations of legacy technology for greater speed and agility, and sharpening their competitive edge. However, all businesses often face challenges that complicate cloud migration, driving up costs and timelines while exposing the business to data security risks. Ultimately, these challenges block businesses from experiencing the true benefits of cloud integration, and in some cases, lead to significant breaches and regulatory fines.

What to look for in Cloud Security

Cloud computing is changing how companies handle their data, providing unparalleled scalability and flexibility. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 85% of businesses will primarily use cloud services. But this change also brings in associated security risks. The 2023 Cloud Security Report by Cybersecurity Insiders found that 93% of companies are concerned about security risks in the cloud. As more businesses move to the cloud, making sure they have good security measures is very important.