Overview of Cloud Market in 2018 and Beyond Industry analyst firm Gartner predicts that the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market will grow by 35.9% in 2018–only a slight decrease from 38.6% in 2017–to reach $40.8 billion by the end of the year. IaaS shows no sign of slowing down in the foreseeable future, and is expected to reach $83.5 [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leader in the public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. According to Amazon, over one million active AWS customers are reaping the cost and productivity advantages they [...]
Overview of Cloud Market in 2018 and Beyond Industry analyst firm Gartner predicts that the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market will grow by 35.9% in 2018–only a slight decrease from 38.6% in 2017–to reach $40.8 billion by the end of the year. IaaS shows no sign of slowing down in the foreseeable future, and is expected to reach $83.5 [...]
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud market grew 31 percent in 2016 to total $22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015, and is expected to show the fastest growth over the next five years compared to platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS), according to Gartner. With increasing adoption of IaaS platforms, we also see [...]
In recent years, the threat of cyber attacks has grown steadily. Many large enterprises have suffered devastating attacks, despite having security resources in place. Why are so many falling prey to attacks? The answers are manifold, but one of the leading causes is the misuse and abuse of privileges, opening up an easy path for [...]
Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication is a powerful feature that adds flexibility to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Depending on your login context – for example, I'm accessing the system from a country I never did before – the MFA authentication is required. In simple words: with Adaptive MFA, depending on your context, the MFA shows up (or not): [...]
Security attacks can happen in an instant. Nearly a third of people who receive a phishing email open it, according to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report; and on average, these unsuspecting users click on its malicious link or attachment within a couple of minutes of receiving it. Just like that, in less than five minutes, your [...]
In the last ten years, biometric technology has morphed from something Hollywood villains use to secure their secret dungeons to something almost everyone has in their pocket. But while adoption of biometric security has seen explosive success, misconceptions about biometric authentication are still very common. Let's take a look at how secure biometrics really are, [...]
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) adoption continues its upward trend as the fastest growing public cloud segment. Not surprisingly, in Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report from 2017, cloud service users saw a 300% year-over-year increase in attacks against them, with over a third of attacks against Azure services in particular originating from China. With the rapid adoption of IaaS providers like [...]
Gartner predicts that 20.8 billion internet-connected devices, also known as internet of things (IoT), will be in use worldwide by 2020. That is a 14.1 billion increase from 2016. This has the potential to drive an economic boost in the range of $4 trillion to $11trillion annually by 2025, according to The McKinsey Global Institute. While [...]
