At CrowdStrike, we sometimes like to say, “There’s data, big data and CrowdStrike data,” by which we mean our engineers work with a volume and scale of data that is totally unmatched in the tech world. Cloud Engineer Morgan Maxwell learned as much firsthand, when she joined four and a half years ago. Since then, she’s come to embrace the volume of data, the scale of our cloud … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Morgan Maxwell, Cloud Engineer
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DoNot’s Firestarter abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to spread
Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / DoNot’s Firestarter abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to spread The newly discovered Firestarter malware uses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to notify its authors of the final payload location. Even if the command and control (C2) is taken down, the DoNot team can still redirect the malware to another C2 using Google … [Read more...] about DoNot’s Firestarter abuses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging to spread
Maintain Cloud Security Posture with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
Your business is facing some of its most rapid growth… maybe ever. According to the Cisco Annual Internet Report, cloud data centers will process nearly 95% of workloads in 2021. Over the past decade, businesses began racing into the cloud. With a newfound understanding of the great flexibility it can offer, CISOs around the world invested millions to migrate their business’ … [Read more...] about Maintain Cloud Security Posture with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
ISE 3.0 Makes Its Move on the Cloud to Simplify the Zero-Trust Workplace
In 2020 we all learned that the future can hit us at any time. As businesses adapted to new realities on the backs of natural disasters, global health emergencies, and political uncertainty, the network and the digital transformation of doing business moved from a means of thriving to one of sheer survival. As IT accelerated the digital transformation, we were all thrust … [Read more...] about ISE 3.0 Makes Its Move on the Cloud to Simplify the Zero-Trust Workplace
Stop playing whack-a-mole and put threats to rest with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
I was recently able to grab some time with a Cisco customer to hear about their experience with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud, a SaaS-based Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution. Aspire Technology Partners, a Managed Security Service Provider, explained their use of the product for one of its customers that was in a dangerous situation involving some slippery malware … [Read more...] about Stop playing whack-a-mole and put threats to rest with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Cloud Service
As businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, securing the infrastructure has never been more important. Now according to the latest research, two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure App Services could have enabled a bad actor to carry out server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks or execute arbitrary code and take over the administration server. "This enables an … [Read more...] about Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Cloud Service
Cybercriminals Are Using Legit Cloud Monitoring Tools As Backdoor
A cybercrime group that has previously struck Docker and Kubernetes cloud environments has evolved to repurpose genuine cloud monitoring tools as a backdoor to carry out malicious attacks, according to new research."To our knowledge, this is the first time attackers have been caught using legitimate third party software to target cloud infrastructure," Israeli cybersecurity … [Read more...] about Cybercriminals Are Using Legit Cloud Monitoring Tools As Backdoor
How AppTrana Managed Cloud WAF Tackles Evolving Attacking Techniques
Web applications suffer continuously evolving attacks, where a web application firewall (WAF) is the first line of defense and a necessary part of organizations' cybersecurity strategies.WAFs are getting more sophisticated all the time, but as its core protection starts with efficient pattern matching, typically using Regular Expressions, and classifying malicious traffic to … [Read more...] about How AppTrana Managed Cloud WAF Tackles Evolving Attacking Techniques
Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure
Workloads and applications are moving from a traditional data center to the public cloud as the public cloud provides an app-centric environment. Microsoft Azure offers critical features for application agility, faster deployment, scalability, and high availability using native cloud features. Microsoft Azure recommends tiered architecture for web applications, as this … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for Azure
Three reasons why Stealthwatch Cloud is a modern-day cloud security solution
The world is changing, and so are your workloads. What was once bound to the on-prem data center, a large cluster of tech stacks at a local branch office, is now effortlessly deployed in the ‘cloud’. The cloud is a way to store data that requires no physical infrastructure for the end-user to manage. Cloud migration is a hot topic and has been on CISO’s minds for years. As you … [Read more...] about Three reasons why Stealthwatch Cloud is a modern-day cloud security solution