Cloud Security

By Stuart Sharp, VP of solution engineering at OneLogin According to predictions from the Office of National Statistics, 50% of the UK workforce is expected to be working remotely by 2020. Many organisations have been preparing for this eventuality for many years, as can be seen from the increased uptake of ‘working from home policies’. This is no surprise considering the advancements in technology and the growing expectation of flexible working hours from the modern...

Today, Nominet announces its Cyber Security and the Cloud research, finding that 61 percent of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in cloud environments compared to on-premise. The research, surveying nearly 300 UK & US C-level security professionals, marks a major tipping point in the perception of security of the cloud. That said, the cloud’s perceived superiority over on-premise does not mean that respondents considered cloud systems...

OneLogin, the leader in Unified Access Management which delivers simple and secure application access and identity management to enterprises, today announced that Virgin Hyperloop One chose OneLogin's cloud-based platform to improve security for all intellectual property across its enterprise applications. "We came to OneLogin to replace our outdated legacy product and needed a solution that could deploy our mission-critical applications in less than 24 hours, while also providing the utmost level of security and ease-of-use,"...

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced the expansion of its Cyber Exposure ecosystem with new and enhanced technology integrations from leading vendors in public cloud infrastructure, SIEM and IT Service Management solutions. This news follows Tenable’s announcement of new innovations to automatically discover and assess rogue assets across on-premises and cloud environments. Together, they enable customers to manage, measure and reduce cyber risk holistically through greater visibility across the modern attack surface plus...

These enhancements and integrations across Symantec’s network security portfolio further position Symantec as the only security provider to offer an integrated cloud-delivered solution that lessens operational costs and complexity, while lowering operational risk. In today’s business environment, there is a tremendous volume of enterprise network traffic directed to the cloud and internet. Regardless of the location or the device, users need direct, always-on access to cloud resources in order to be productive. And IT organizations...

  Load balancing of application traffic has been around for a long time. But, as more organisations move to the private and public cloud, it’s undergoing significant changes. Let’s look at some of the important considerations of this evolving technology. Three major requirements underline IT operations and DevOps today: agile, efficiency and, multi-cloud operations. Agile: The movement toward public cloud is arguably driven by an organisation’s desire to deliver more functionality faster. Public clouds like...

Cloud infrastructure presents new risks, new systems, and less control for security teams that are already overwhelmed by security alerts, manual processes and siloed security tools that complicate decision-making and the hand-off of remediation to IT counterparts. To help solve this challenge, ServiceNow, the digital workflow company that creates great experiences and unlocks productivity, has extended its security operations portfolio with the release today of two integrations with AWS Security Hub. ServiceNow is aligned with AWS’s strategy...

LogMeIn Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) today unveiled an expanded suite of LastPass Business solutions bringing to life a comprehensive identity offering, built for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Expanding beyond its signature password management capabilities, the new LastPass Business lineup introduces new single-sign-on (SSO) technology for more than 1,200 apps, as well as LastPass MFA, an adaptive, biometric-based authentication solution, and LastPass Identity, a unified access and authentication solution to securely manage user identity. As a...

Vectra today closed a $100 million round of funding led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms backing private and public technology companies. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to more than $200 million. Vectra will use the investment to accelerate global market expansion and R&D innovation, solidifying its Cognito platform as the market-leading solution for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cloud security using network detection...

Imperva, Inc., the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Distil Networks, the global leader in Bot Management. The acquisition reinforces Imperva’s market leadership in the application security market and furthers the company’s mission to protect business-critical data and applications no matter where or how they are deployed. “Distil Networks is a globally recognised leader in automated attack mitigation, and...