McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has announced the introduction of MITRE ATT and amp;CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) into McAfee MVISION Cloud, the company’s Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). The new approach will help to deliver a precise method to search, detect, and stop cyberattacks on cloud services. This integration will help SecOps teams to direct the source of cloud vulnerabilities and threats mapped to the tactics and techniques of ATT and amp;CK. McAfee is considered to be the first CASB provider to tag and visualize cloud security ..read more

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has released new Cloud Security Guidance to support the secure adoption of cloud services across government and industry. The new guidelines, post the expiry of the Cloud Services Certification Programme, cover a range of assessment criteria, including the physical security of public cloud data centers, data protection, and other cloud security controls. Linda Reynolds, Australia’s Minister of Defense, is of the view that the new guidelines that were co-designed with industry partners will he ..read more

Data Theorem, a leading provider in modern application security, and Macnica Networks, a leading supplier of network equipment and security solutions, has announced their merger, which aims to provide Data Theorem’s leading Application Programming Interface (API) and application security solutions in Japan. Extensive AppSec portfolio from Data Theorem helps to protect organizations from data breaches with application security protection for API-driven microservices, modern web frameworks, and cloud resources. Its solutions are powered by its award-winning Analyzer Engine that leverages an adva ..read more

Highlights: The deal aims to simplify the purchasing process of cloud services and products for state entities. The Western Sydney facilities will be introduced in collaboration with Canberra Data Centers (CDC). Vault Cloud and CDC are investing in NSW to enhance the security needs of the state government. The NSW government has struck a whole-of-government contract with Vault Cloud to enhance its access to secure public cloud services. Under the agreement, Vault offered pre-negotiated pricing and terms for five years. The major aim of the five-year agreement is to “advance and simplify the ..read more

Tripwire Inc, a global cybersecurity solution provider, working with an aim to protect the world’s leading organizations, took a step ahead. On  June 30, 2020, it announced enhanced security support in the cloud with the Tripwire Configuration Manager. The company’s latest SaaS application brings security to most complex cloud environments. Tripwire Configuration Manager utilizes a single SaaS-based console to centralize the configuration monitoring of cloud assets. Tripwire Configuration Manager enforces security policies that help trigger the automated remediation feature, thus resettin ..read more

Cloud computing is transforming the way we are doing business. It is making IT readily available, efficient, and cost-effective. At the same time, it is exposing enterprises to new types of cyber threats. Today, the majority of the world uses business websites and digital services extensively to do a variety of transactions. Right from booking a movie ticket to booking a vacation online, everything is done so easily and efficiently. But what about security? Are these networks safe enough to put personal information on them? Well, these days, threat actors are getting smarter and are coming up ..read more

The external cyberattacks on cloud services and collaboration tools like WebEx and Zoom increased by 630% between January and April, cybersecurity firm McAfee announced. A study named ‘Cloud Adoption and Risk Report- Work-from-Home Edition’ revealed that there had been an upsurge in the usage of cloud services, access from unmanaged devices, and the rise of cloud-native threats. The behavior emphasizes that there is a need for new security models in today’s work from home culture and in the future. The study was based on aggregated and anonymized data from more than 30 million McAfee MVISION C ..read more

Based out of Israel, Orca Security focuses on offering businesses with enhanced visibility into their multi-cloud deployment on  Azure, AWS, and  Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Maintaining the same focus, the company, on May 5, 2020, released the news that it had successfully raised USD 20 million in a Series A funding round. GGV Capital led the event, and it also witnessed participants like YL Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Overall, along with its seed investment led by YL Ventures, the grand total of Orca’s funding has reached an impressive USD 27 million mark. What ma ..read more

Highlights: Bridgecrew raised USD 14 million in Series A funding Led by Battery Ventures, and participation by NFX, DNX, Sorensen, and more was witnessed The company aims at developing playbooks to resolve the misconfiguration issue quickly and at a lower cost Bleak economic conditions and bottleneck competition are getting companies to automate their processes. Bridgecrew, a 14-month-old start-up involved in developing cloud security tooling focused on engineers, announced a USD 14 million Series A funding on April 16, 2020. Led by Battery Ventures, the Series A witnessed participation from ..read more

Zscaler is all set to buy Cloudneeti, a cloud security posture management start-up, along with plans to prevent and rectify application misconfigurations in the cloud. Based out of San Jose, California, Zscaler’s proposal to acquire  Cloudneeti, a Redmond, Washington-based company  will help extend Zscaler data protection for SaaS (Software-as-a-service) applications into public cloud works, as SaaS and PaaS (Platform-as-a-service) misconfigurations are the primary reason for data breaches and compliance violations in cloud applications Terms associated with the deal are not disclose ..read more