Cloud Security

A recent survey has found that one third of respondents describe the state of security monitoring within their organisation as “complex and chaotic”. AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ (USM™) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, has released results of a survey showing that cloud security remains a thorn in the side of security professionals, with many still struggling to monitor this environment effectively. Conducted at RSA 2017, 974 conference participants weighed in on cloud...

The use of third parties is unavoidable in today’s global economy. The growing use of third party suppliers and business partners, whilst bringing significant business advantages, also exposes organisations to substantial risk, such as financial loss, reputational damage, regulatory prosecution and fines from major breaches of security. In the last few years we’ve witnessed many of these risks being realised; examples have included major breaches of security and costs to recover escalating into millions of...

Zscaler, the Global Security Cloud for the mobile enterprise, today announced Zscaler SHIFT, a new easy-to-use cloud service that extends its scalable security architecture to a broader market. Zscaler SHIFT introduces intelligent routing, which automatically applies threat intelligence from the behavioral analysis of 12 billion daily Web transactions from 4,500 global enterprises to enable ubiquitous protection against dynamic Internet threats. “In a world of ubiquitous network connectivity, companies are looking for ways to provide uniform...