Data breaches in the cloud don’t look like the on-premises breaches we’re used to, where malware infiltrates the network and reaches endpoint devices, siphoning out data to a command and control location. In the cloud, primarily within Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments, data theft often occurs using native functions of the cloud which are built and delivered [...]
As cloud use in the enterprise has evolved, so have cloud security priorities. Organizations are less worried about unauthorized consumer cloud applications and are more concerned about the security of sensitive data in strategic enterprise cloud services. Cybersecurity incidents involving sensitive data in the cloud can be less frequent, but more damaging. The number of [...]
In our latest global study on cloud adoption and risk, 83% of the 1,000 enterprises we spoke to told us they store their sensitive data in the cloud. From our own real-world analysis of billions of anonymized cloud events, we can see that 66% of sensitive data lives in cloud applications sanctioned by IT and [...]
Cloud services are now a vital part of corporate life, bringing a momentous opportunity to accelerate business through their ability to quickly scale, allowing us to be agile with our resources, and providing new opportunities for collaboration. The typical organization uses, on average, 1,935 cloud services spanning enterprise-ready services procured by the IT department such [...]
G Suite, the collection of business collaboration tools from Google has been growing in adoption over the past decade, reaching over 5 million business customers who use tools like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Docs to work more efficiently. Firms like ATB Financial have reimagined the way they work by using Google Docs as a [...]
Business users are not the only ones within enterprises to benefit from the use of cloud services. A majority of security teams say that they can achieve better security within cloud environments, according to new research from McAfee. The latest Cloud Adoption and Risk Report from McAfee focuses on the business growth organizations achieve through [...]
Do You Know What’s Lurking in the Shadows Have you ever used that instant PDF converting service or that random cloud application to share a large file, when in a bind? Well you’re not alone! In the interest of getting things done, employees often use cloud applications not approved by IT. These applications, commonly referred [...]
Enterprises around the world are adopting the cloud at an increasing pace to provide their employees with services that increase productivity and their customers with new digital experiences that drive business growth. In the process, sensitive enterprise data is increasingly created, stored, and shared in the cloud and it is therefore exposed to new threats [...]
Since May 25, 2018, on which GDPR became enforceable, in the 28 countries of the European Union (EU), the GDPR has set up significant new standards for privacy all over the world. So, what has happened this past year? I’d say that privacy has come of age – from an area that was not a [...]
The tendency of SaaS applications to be siloed has made identity management, user access and authorization an increasing challenge. The task of onboarding users is a time-intensive, manual process that involves administrators across multiple departments, which can introduce risk. Additionally, in most enterprises, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the authoritative user directory that governs access to [...]
