Cyber attacks are occurring at a steadily increasing clip, leading each successive year to replace its predecessor as “Year of the Data Breach.” 2016 hasn’t exactly broken from this trajectory, but it has forged its own path by earning the title, “Year of Ransomware.” This trending attack type isn’t the most complex or innovative new [...]
There are over 19,000 cloud services available today. While you’ve likely heard of popular file sharing services Dropbox and Google Drive, you may be less familiar with 4shared, ZippyShare, and Sendspace, which are far riskier services in that category. Until recently, many organizations have resorted to simply blocking well-known cloud services with their web proxy [...]
When applications and data were on premises, IT had controls that limited access to authenticated users signing in from enterprise-managed devices. Now that applications and data are moving to the cloud and enterprises are embracing BYOD programs, IT expects these same controls for cloud services. The concern is that as users access corporate data in [...]
One week after the critical vulnerability in SSL/TLS named DROWN was disclosed, Skyhigh Cloud Security Labs has found that 620 cloud services remain vulnerable to compromise. That’s not much lower than the 653 services that were vulnerable a week ago. So far, cloud providers have been slower to respond to DROWN compared with other SSL [...]
More cloud services are being launched every week and most of these are aimed at the business sector. Organisations have never had more cloud apps to choose from that provide robust levels of security for enterprise data. Cloud adoption in the workplace continued to increase this quarter, albeit at a slower pace than last quarter. [...]
