Nightfall’s Cloud Security Newsletter 3/24/20

 

 
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In Nightfall’s Trends in Cloud Security Newsletter, we review the top stories and developments in cloud security. Some of this issue’s highlights include:

Read these stories and other timely cloud security stories below.

Stories from Our Blog


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Nightfall’s Commitment to Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread globally and organizations rapidly shift employees to a remote, work from home model, we are seeing a rise in the adoption of collaborative cloud software like Slack to keep workforces in sync. In response, we’ve made Nightfall DLP for Slack available at no cost from March 16th until May 16th, 2020.
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Upcoming Nightfall Webinars
Join us tomorrow on Wednesday March 25 for a webinar on discovering and protecting data in Slack. Then next week, on April 1, join us to learn about how you can identify and detect PII within AWS S3.
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How to Securely Adopt SaaS tools like Slack amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The current coronavirus pandemic has pushed many teams to quickly adopt SaaS collaborative platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and G Suite. Although these tools will allow teams to be productive while remote, collaborative cloud platforms tend to create environments where data policies and security best practices can be difficult to enforce.
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Preventing S3 bucket Leaks with 5 Best Practices for AWS Cloud Security
Although Amazon’s grip on the cloud might be loosening (however slowly), there’s no question that AWS with its estimated 47% market share is a cloud behemoth. This means that for many businesses, cloud security starts with AWS security.
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Incidents in the Cloud


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800Gb of possible Census Bureau data (tax records,etc) leaked. Check your data
The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured database owned by an unidentified party, comprising 800 gigabytes of personal user information.The database in question was left on a publicly accessible server and contained more than 200 million detailed user records, putting an astonishing number of people at risk.
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Unprotected Elasticsearch Server Leaks 5 Billion Records
Around 5,088,635,374 records (more than five billion) were exposed after a U.K.-based security firm inadvertently exposed its “Data breach Database”, which stored huge information related security incidents from 2012 to 2019, without password protection.
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Printing company exposes 343GB of sensitive military data
UK Printing company Doxzoo inadvertently exposed 343GB of data through a misconfiguredAmazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket, including sensitive information said to relateto branches of the UK and US military. Potentially more than 100,000 users were affected by the data leak.
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Blisk web developer browser exposes user data via misconfigured database
The Blisk browser, a Chromium-based web browser for web developers has suffered a data leak with the records of 2.9 million users exposed via a misconfigured online database. Discovered by security researchers at vpnMentor, the data was exposed by a misconfigured Elasticsearh database.
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Strategies for Securing the Cloud


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Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up as Work from Home Takes Hold
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them said theyre still struggling with the process.
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Business continuity: Coronavirus crisis puts CIOs’ plans to the test
As the COVID-19 coronavirus rattles industries, it’s more important than ever for IT leaders to ensure employees have the tools they require to work remotely and securely. “When traditional channels and operations are impacted by the outbreak, the value of digital channels, products and operations becomes immediately obvious,” according to Gartner analyst Sandy Shen.
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Grow Your Business With an Evolving Cloud Security Strategy
Sometimes the fog is so thick that you can barely see what is in front of you or within your environments. When you move to the cloud, security and visibility are two things you absolutely cannot downplay. The cloud is ever-developing, and the only way to grow your business in the long term is to have the right security strategy around your cloud environment.
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