Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The digital threat landscape in the United Kingdom (UK) continues to evolve as businesses that undergo a massive transition towards increased digitalization and cloud-based migrations are forced to change their IT system operations. More importantly, UK laws and regulations must also adapt to ensure that UK businesses and organizations are working to improve their cybersecurity posture and IT infrastructure to protect data security and privacy.

Cloud adoption and use in corporate environments are rising, and its future looks bright. Business spending on Cloud services indicates this upward trend, as it increased by 29% in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period last year. Cloud migration has ushered in changes to regulations to consolidate data security according to the nature of the business.

Part of the challenge of creating a robust security posture is collecting the right toolbox full of tools and services. There’s a wide world out there full of tools that can enhance your security, but one of the most productive types of tools every organization needs is a vulnerability scanning tool. To help you navigate these types of tools and recognize how they fit into your information security system, we’re taking a closer look at these tools and how they work. ‍

In my previous article I defined what is Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), described how to measure it and explained why it is important to implement a CTI program that can serve different stakeholders with different types of intelligence requirements in order to have a proactive security approach. 2022 was a productive year for ISO (International Organization for Standardization) security standards.

Audits are challenging. Especially when it comes to assessing abstract compliance standards against multiple cloud environments, unique cloud infrastructure setups, and many possible (mis)configurations. To help our customers automate compliance assessments, Snyk Cloud now supports 10+ compliance standards— including CIS Benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and more.

Last Summer, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 to help boost and improve government cybersecurity operations in response to increased threats worldwide. Memorandum OMB-21-31 from the Office of Management and Budget soon followed, which explained the critical role data log collection and analysis play across all branches of the Federal Government.

From manufacturers in Michigan to fintechs in Finland, every business must comply with industry regulations — which are increasingly constraining. At the same time, businesses must protect and account for a growing number of systems, applications and data in order to remain compliant. In other words, compliance is getting harder. Enter log management. While regulations vary by country and industry, nearly every organization must store compliance-relevant information for a certain period of time.

It’s been a busy start of the year for Vanta. We’ve made some major additions and improvements, such as our acquisition of Trustpage, as well as some exciting platform updates: ‍