by VAST | Sep 8, 2020 | CASB, Cloud, Security, VAST View
The way you manage your cloud has a lot to do with the security risks you face in the cloud. These risks can be reduced by developing policies and implementing tools that help you enforce those policies. Security risk: Lack of change control. Cloud is dynamic and...
by VAST | Sep 4, 2020 | Data Protection, Palo Alto, Security
As we distribute applications in the cloud, there’s one critical function that’s remained centralized: security. The standard approach to security continues to ship traffic to a centralized point in the data center for inspection before passing it along to its...
by Michael Boehl | Mar 30, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Security
As part of AWS’s standard security best practices for their Relational Database Service (RDS), a new certificate authority (CA) for RDS, Aurora and DocumentDB database instances is now available. The current CA expires on March 5, 2020, however, to avoid interruption...
by Michael Boehl | Jan 21, 2020 | CASB, Discovery and Assessment, Palo Alto, Security, VAST View
Information security doesn’t happen by throwing together a random set of tools. Information security happens after you develop a deep understanding of your data and IT resources, their value, and their vulnerabilities, and you use that understanding to develop a...
by Michael Boehl | Dec 24, 2019 | CASB, Discovery and Assessment, Palo Alto, Security, VAST View
Cloud changes some of the risks to your data’s security. Some of the traditional defenses still apply, but there’s also new technology that you’ll want to consider using to keep your data safe. Risks to Data Security in the Cloud Risks to data in the cloud come from...
by Michael Boehl | Dec 10, 2019 | Privacy, Security, Veritas
For businesses in the United States, GDPR was an eye-opener. It highlighted how different the EU attitude towards data privacy was from that at home. But that difference is getting smaller. Attitudes in the United States are shifting and getting closer to the European...
