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Cloud: 90 percent of cyber attacks with login data
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Centrify study: 90 percent of hackers use compromised privileged credentials in cyber attacks on the cloud. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the cloud in times of remote work. An overwhelming proportion (90 percent) of cyber attacks on cloud environments in the past twelve months involved compromised privileged credentials. This is the result of a new study by Centrify, a leading provider of modern Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. 65 percent of the IT decision-makers surveyed had attempted attacks on their cloud environments, and 80 percent of these attacks were also successful. 150 IT decision-makers in the USA surveyed To assess how the dependency on the cloud ...

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Design principles of IT security
Design principles of IT security

For IT security managers, an abrupt change from office to fully remote operation must feel like moving from a solid walled villa to the Wild West. Traditional limits of on-premises operation and thus also the control that it offers no longer exist. In the home office, users more or less control devices and software themselves. And that is where the difficulties for IT admins begin. The area to be secured increases suddenly. Just one click on a malicious email attachment, surfing a website with malware, an open WiFi network or an unsecured device, ...

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16 million dangerous spam blocked
16 million dangerous spam blocked

Cloud-based spam email threats benefit from COVID-19. Trend Micro has seen a surge in malware, phishing and credential theft, reporting 16,7 million blocked high-risk email threats that went undetected by the native filters of cloud-based Office solutions. This represents an increase of almost a third compared to 2019. The new statistics are provided by Trend Micro's Cloud App Security, an API-based solution that provides protection for Microsoft Exchange Online, Gmail and a number of other services at a second level of security . Indispensable: SaaS apps for remote employees "COVID-19 forced many companies to ...

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Healthcare cloud migration
Healthcare cloud migration

Trend Micro Study: Four Challenges for Cloud Migration in Healthcare. Trend Micro survey shows that rapid migration can negatively impact security. A study by Trend Micro, the world's leading provider of cloud security, found that healthcare companies around the world are spending more and more on cloud migration. At the same time, however, many companies could overestimate their own ability to protect the new cloud environment. 2.500 IT decision-makers surveyed Trend Micro commissioned Sapio Research to survey more than 2.500 IT decision-makers from various industries in 28 countries - including the healthcare sector….

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ESET PROTECT business bundles

ESET launches new product bundles for business users. The zero trust concept and cloud-based security solutions address the requirements of companies. Rapid digitization is also changing the demands that organizations make on security solutions. With ESET PROTECT, the IT security manufacturer ESET is consistently serving the new requirements of its customers. The five combinations ESET PROTECT Entry, Advanced, Complete, Enterprise and Mail Plus offer optimal protection against the dangers of the digital world. The bundles are suitable for companies of all sizes, from home offices to large corporations. Four of them each contain a management console as well as endpoint protection, central remote management and extended multi-layer protection. ESET PROTECT ...

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Barracuda: Backup platform for Office 365
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Fast, scalable, resilient: Barracuda introduces a new backup platform for protecting data in Microsoft Office 365. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup gets a completely new architecture for quickly finding and restoring Office 365 data, including Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint and OneDrive. Cloud security specialist Barracuda has completely redesigned its backup platform Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup. The new version now offers improved scalability and resilient recovery of Office 365 data, including Teams, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. Compared to conventional backup and recovery solutions, a cloud-native solution is more effective in terms of scalability and reliability. In addition to fast performance, it offers ...

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IT security recommendations for 2021
IT security recommendations for companies 2021

Kaspersky gives IT security recommendations for companies in 2021: Remote work will break the trend away from the classic security concept around the company perimeter and accelerate towards security certification for micro-offices. Outsourcing IT and cybersecurity functions will be critical to address the lack of in-house expertise and save budgets. For the coordination of managed service providers and the use of multiple cloud services, cloud security and management knowledge is a must. As the latest Kaspersky security forecasts for 2021 show, these and a few other cybersecurity challenges and trends will be facing companies ...

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Security trends 2021 
Security trends

Application acceleration and network performance management solutions help work-from-home models to scale quickly. This makes remote work productive and networks efficient and secure. Here are some security trends for 2021. The challenges that working in the home office has brought for companies have ensured that they reassess their networks and the data they contain. The number of home networks and BYO devices now involved in critical business operations has grown exponentially. Business operations are increasingly dependent on cloud-based infrastructures and solutions. In 2021, companies will check where their data is and whether ...

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More security for networks
Network security OnPremise Cloud

GTT expands managed security services portfolio. These offer comprehensive security coverage for both cloud and on-premise and hybrid environments. GTT Communications, Inc., a leading global provider of cloud networking for multinational customers, announces that the company has expanded its portfolio of managed security services. By using the Next Generation Security Fabric from Fortinet, GTT can offer extended, software-defined functions. This includes Unified Threat Prevention (UTP) with various security functions such as application control, web filtering, virus protection, data loss prevention, intrusion detection and prevention. Comprehensive security coverage In addition, GTT has expanded its security service portfolio to include managed detection and ...

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Data sharing: E-Evidence vs Confidential Computing
Confidential Computing

Data transfer according to E-Evidence vs Confidential Computing: Are entire professional groups excluded from using the cloud? With E-Evidence, a new, international set of rules is preparing to make data available to authorities across national borders. If, for example, the judicial authority in Greece requests user data from a German customer, it should be possible in the future to force the German cloud provider to surrender this data. This affects all information that is available to the cloud service provider about its customers: Starting with the stored content to the metadata relating to the time of the data transfer, IP address of ...

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