Today, Nominet announces its Cyber Security and the Cloud research, finding that 61 percent of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in cloud environments compared to on-premise. The research, surveying nearly 300 UK & US C-level security professionals, marks a major tipping point in the perception of security of the cloud. That said, the cloud’s perceived superiority over on-premise does not mean that respondents considered cloud systems to be completely safe. Cyber security concerns with cloud adoption In fact, the research found that 71 percen ..read more

Today, Nominet announces its Cyber Security and the Cloud research, finding that 61 percent of security professionals believe the risk of a security breach is the same or lower in cloud environments compared to on-premise. The research, surveying nearly 300 UK & US C-level security professionals, marks a major tipping point in the perception of security of the cloud. That said, the cloud’s perceived superiority over on-premise does not mean that respondents considered cloud systems to be completely safe. Cyber security concerns with cloud adoption In fact, the research found that 71 percen ..read more

OneLogin, the leader in Unified Access Management which delivers simple and secure application access and identity management to enterprises, today announced that Virgin Hyperloop One chose OneLogin’s cloud-based platform to improve security for all intellectual property across its enterprise applications. “We came to OneLogin to replace our outdated legacy product and needed a solution that could deploy our mission-critical applications in less than 24 hours, while also providing the utmost level of security and ease-of-use,” said Dawn Armstrong, IT director at Virgin Hyperloop One. “The natu ..read more

By Yogi Chandiramani, technical director EMEA at Zscaler The zero trust model has been developed because the distinction between “external” and “internal” areas of information systems has begun to blur. Private applications stand alongside their SaaS-based brethren, while the infrastructure transitions from virtualised servers in the data centre to services and apps residing on public clouds. Users are also changing. Not only are they quite often mobile, but they are also no longer strictly human beings. The number of APIs is exploding, and machines now speak to each other just as much as empl ..read more

Written by Ronald Sens, EMEA Director at A10 Networks Load balancing of application traffic has been around for a long time. But, as more organisations move to the private and public cloud, it’s undergoing significant changes. Let’s look at some of the important considerations of this evolving technology. Three major requirements underline IT operations and DevOps today: agile, efficiency and, multi-cloud operations. Agile: The movement toward public cloud is arguably driven by an organisation’s desire to deliver more functionality faster. Public clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Serv ..read more

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced its new cloud access security solution to help secure cloud and internet access and use in an enterprise environment. These enhancements and integrations across Symantec’s network security portfolio further position Symantec as the only security provider to offer an integrated cloud-delivered solution that lessens operational costs and complexity, while lowering operational risk. In today’s business environment, there is a tremendous volume of enterprise network traffic directed to the cloud and internet ..read more

Maintel, the cloud and managed services specialist, today announces the launch of its Insight Secure cyber security service, combining sophisticated assessment tools with expert knowledge and support. The offering will provide businesses of all sizes with peace of mind over their cyber security and compliance management. Insight Secure is a suite of consultancy and security services that provide organisations with the intelligence they need to protect their valuable data and to aid the planning and development of their cyber security management. The end-to-end service takes a holistic approach ..read more

Cloud infrastructure presents new risks, new systems, and less control for security teams that are already overwhelmed by security alerts, manual processes and siloed security tools that complicate decision-making and the hand-off of remediation to IT counterparts. To help solve this challenge, ServiceNow, the digital workflow company that creates great experiences and unlocks productivity, has extended its security operations portfolio with the release today of two integrations with AWS Security Hub. ServiceNow is aligned with AWS’s strategy of providing security at-scale, and our vendor-agno ..read more

LogMeIn Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) today unveiled an expanded suite of LastPass Business solutions bringing to life a comprehensive identity offering, built for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Expanding beyond its signature password management capabilities, the new LastPass Business lineup introduces new single-sign-on (SSO) technology for more than 1,200 apps, as well as LastPass MFA, an adaptive, biometric-based authentication solution, and LastPass Identity, a unified access and authentication solution to securely manage user identity. As a result, companies of all sizes and resources can ..read more

Vectra today closed a $100 million round of funding led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms backing private and public technology companies. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to more than $200 million. Vectra will use the investment to accelerate global market expansion and R&D innovation, solidifying its Cognito platform as the market-leading solution for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cloud security using network detection and response. The cloud has critical security gaps that leave organizations vulne ..read more