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:
Learn about our commitment to teams amid the COVID-19 outbreak as well as our upcoming webinars, and most recent stories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
