Since January 2020, Microsoft Azure SQL DB has grown nearly 3x in popularity. This rapid growth comes as no surprise as Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings have many benefits in the migration strategy from traditional SQL Server database workloads. The Microsoft PaaS offering, Azure SQL Database, takes care of mundane tasks once performed by Infrastructure Engineers such as patching operating systems and applying SQL Server updates or critical security patches.

Bearer has partnered with Trace to help companies leverage the best of services and software and build a connected compliance program. Bearer is innovating data risk assessments to build intelligence and stack visibility at scale, while the Trace team brings decades of client-led professional services experience in privacy and data security. Together, the two companies bring the best blend of human and tech capabilities to shape the future of compliance.

For years, biotechs have been hampered by the administrative burden of seemingly endless amounts of diverse, siloed data, slow data ingestion, and security threats coming from internal and external sources. And yet, the life sciences industry continues to see double-digit growth. It’s now worth $285 billion a year, with no signs of slowing down.

Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity was released in May with nine sections outlining specific focus areas for security improvements. As we noted at the time, Netskope applauded the EO for how it placed significant emphasis on zero trust security adoption, mentioning it no fewer than 11 times, and insisting on proactive action.

The number of machine identities for which organizations are responsible has “exploded” in recent years, according to Security Boulevard. These machine identities include devices and workloads. But they also include application programming interfaces (APIs). Organizations use APIs to connect the data and functionality of their applications to those managed by third-party developers, business partners, and other entities, per IBM.

Our product has been through many changes over the years. Both from a market standpoint, but also technically. Over the last year we’ve simplified our architecture and moved away from a traditional Javascript single page application (SPA) and gone back to our Rails roots. Here’s the story of why we chose Hotwire, what it’s allowed us to do, and where we hope to see it in the future.

In this blog, we’ve analyzed data from Netskope customers that include security settings of over 1 million entities in 156,737 Google Cloud (GCP) projects across hundreds of organizations (see Dataset and Methodology for more details on the dataset). We will specifically look at the configuration of service accounts, see what’s commonly occurring in the real world, and analyze how multiple security misconfigurations can lead to escalation of privileges and lateral movement.