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Gartner: Navigating incident response in the cloud

3 minutes of reading / API, automation, business continuity, compliance, disaster recovery, risk management, Tech / By

Traditional incident response (IR) processes, honed for on-premises environments, face significant challenges when applied to the cloud. The shared responsibility model of cloud environments demands a reassessment and upgrading of IR procedures. To navigate these challenges effectively, security and risk management (SRM) leaders must embrace new strategies and technologies tailored to the unique nature of…

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Cloud security: Finding the right provider to protect your data

3 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, Hardware, Okta, Tech / By

Cloud security strikes fear into the heart of CISOs and risk practitioners alike. For years there were alarmist warnings “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”, “once it’s in the cloud it’s no longer yours”, “you don’t know where your data is” etc. While some of these do hold some truth, the reality is that…

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How to ensure public cloud services are used safely and securely

4 minutes of reading / Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital transformation, firewalls, Intel, penetration testing, Tech / By

By Published: 12 Jun 2024 The public cloud is a cloud computing model that enables resources such as applications, data storage, and virtual machines to be accessed remotely and on demand. While largely a benefit, it also leaves organisations open to public cloud security risks, particularly when they allow users to access on-demand services from…

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Best practices to beat container misconfiguration

6 minutes of reading / automation, Cloud, compliance, containers, Kubernetes, risk management, Tech / By

He urges IT decision-makers to strategise better and only shift what is optimum for the new environment – transforming assets to reduce complexity, probability of human error, and cost. According to Firment, container misconfiguration is a symptom of larger problems with migrations that haven’t incorporated architecture and practice modernisation. Good strategy means less is missed…

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Data leakage in the cloud – can data truly be safe in the cloud?

5 minutes of reading / agile, AI, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Google, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, machine learning, Tech / By

As organisations store and process data in the cloud, there are increasing concerns from administrators, data owners and CISOs’ around the possibility of misconfiguration or mishaps that lead to sensitive data being leaked – particularly to public cloud services that fall outside of the intended geographic region. In 2019, Gartner predicted that by 2025, 90%…

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Storage technology explained: Key questions about tape storage

5 minutes of reading / AI, Cloud, compliance, IBM, machine learning, Tech / By

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup and long-term storage and archiving. Those applications make the most of tape’s key attributes, which include durability and low cost,…

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Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

20 minutes of reading / AI, compliance, Computer, Dell, Facebook, Google, iPhone, machine learning, Meta, programmatic advertising, social media, Tech, web development / By

Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers.   A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…

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Sellafield local authority slammed over response to North Korean ransomware attack

6 minutes of reading / compliance, Computer, disaster recovery, firewalls, IT governance, Tech, VPN / By

Former bosses at Copeland Borough Council blame a 2017 ransomware attack for the authority’s failure to submit audited accounts for its final four years of business. As part of local government reform, Copeland was incorporated into the joint Cumberland authority on 1 April 2023.Auditors from Grant Thornton have now also lambasted Copeland for its response…

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Tesla recalls over 125,000 cars for another seat belt issue

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A rough year for Tesla just got worse. This week, the carmaker issued a recall of over 125,000 Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Model Y vehicles due to yet another seat belt issue. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recall report, the seat belt warning system isn’t working as intended…

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Storage technology explained: File, block and object storage

9 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Database, DNS, Google, Google Cloud, HP, IBM, Kubernetes, Microsoft, Tech / By

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so, but with adaptations to the use case, performance and cost constraints of cloud storage. In this article, we look at the fundamentals…

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