Cyber Security

It is always wise to have a strong log management strategy in place, to ensure complete peace of mind and a seamless cybersecurity infrastructure. Let us have a look at the best logging and monitoring practices for better cybersecurity. Implementing structured logging into formats such as JSON or XML makes it easier to explain, analyze and query. It can also be read easily by humans and machines at the same time. Aggregating and centralizing log data gives enterprises the chance to step up their security, organize and extract data from innumerable sources without manual intervention.   Even a few minutes of unplanned service interruption can result in enterprises incurring huge amounts of revenue losses. Real-time incident reporting can help monitor the stream of ingested logs and alerts on known errors or anomalous events that could signal a security incident or application performance issue. Alerts can be routed to the devices and official social networks of personnel. This ...

Identity and access management (IAM) can be defined as a set of digital security processes, policies and tools that ensure only authorized people are allowed access to the requisite technology resources. Right from logging into our bank account, to swapping our office access cards, to editing the citizenship details on government portals, we all use IAM solutions.   With the growing relevance of digital transformation, creating an end-user-centric workspace has become imperative for IAM which is the cornerstone of security. Companies are adopting AI and ML on a large scale for mature product offerings, improvements in user experience, reduction of manual touchpoints across the entire IAM chain, and so on. These are touted to benefit customers, the workforce users, security administrators, and developers alike.   User experience is the foremost element on this list to undergo futuristic development. Companies are collaborating with cybersecurity experts for streamlini...

With the advent of digital transformation, cyber threats seem to have also evolved as we move towards an increasingly digital world to improve flexibility. Minimizing human risk: Cyber attacks like ransomware, advanced persistent threats (APTs), phishing, and so on have often been traced back to human error and carelessness. Misconfigurations of IT resources have been found to create easy access to under-secured applications. Current cloud solutions are taking into account the reliability, funding, and detailed analysis of checkpoints of the sources responsible for cybersecurity. Cloud services leverage essential features such as completing repetitive, simple tasks at scale, setting security baselines, and identifying anomalies. Hybrid and Multi-cloud environment: The hybrid environment is the most preferred environment by many companies because of its secure operation. In addition to easy migration to the cloud, services and applications can be configured and hosted locally. Up cl...

  The pandemic has spurred companies to accelerate digital transformation, which is expected to gain momentum in the current year. CIOs across companies see digital transformation as crucial to business success and are also regularising remote work steadily. According to IDC, investments in digitization growth rates are hovering at 15.5% CAGR between 2020 and 2023. Although cloud security services can defend against attacks in a multi-cloud environment, teams can be flooded with new security telemetry that can make threat detection impossible. However, organizations can overcome these challenges by building a digital culture in their employees, aligning business transformation to their business and security goals, and being flexible regarding threat detection and response. One way you can fortify your cyber defence is by adopting a policy of Defend Forward. This policy entails an offensive mindset to counter cyber attacks by proactively identifying threats and implementing counter...

Businesses are moving to the cloud because of its resilience, scale and agility. These include improved customer satisfaction due to greater customer concern resolution and enabling businesses to scale up with the changing market environment. While cloud migration offers the benefits of business agility for customers, the challenge is maintaining security. The fact is that you cannot apply the legacy approaches that you used for the on-premise environment to the cloud environment as that will not simply work. Issues around cloud cyber security arise because the environments are misconfigured due to human error and because humans don't fully utilize the automation opportunities. According to a Gartner report, 99% of cloud security failures occur because of misconfigurations making it a top issue that should be addressed on a war footing. Other reasons for misconfigurations are skillset scarcity, fragmentation in the multi-cloud/hybrid cloud deployment, and inadequate visibility. Fi...

The Essentials on Cloud Compliance and Compliance Reporting Awareness about network and cloud security , compliance, and compliance reporting has become vital as more organizations move to the cloud to improve business resilience and agility, shorten time-to-market, and cut costs. From $313 billion in 2020, global spending on cloud services has risen to $482 billion in 2022, and it is set to reach $1.25 trillion by 2028. Compliance in the cloud Protecting customer data and privacy are at the centre of lawmakers' attention worldwide. Many regulations, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX or GDPR, are meant to be adhered to depending on the industry. When workflows, processes and systems align with these regulatory regimes, this translates to compliance. However, this compliance also extends to the cloud, so organizations must ensure that the data they store on their cloud infrastructure adheres to data protection and privacy laws. Compliance matters in the cloud because failure can lead to...