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Armour up! Top 3 Security Trends to Watch

January 20, 2016

Last year, cyber security breaches wreaked havoc on some of the biggest financial institutions, retailers and governments in the world, causing data and financial loss and even corporate embarrassment for a certain entertainment powerhouse. In 2016, we can likely expect more - more advanced attacks including targeted industry espionage, ransomware, and social engineering.

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Data Protection Insights

Dawn of Data Protection Regulations: Will You Be a Hero or a Villain?

April 19, 2016

Like Superman draws his power from the sun, the cloud imbues organisations with remarkable power and flexibility. But how should organisations wield such power effectively to protect their users and data, especially in light of data protection regulations? Matthias Yeo, APAC CTO of Blue Coat, shares the top 3 tenets of adopting a cloud strategy so you can be the hero, not the villain.

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Blogs Cyber Security Security Demystified

I Want to Have the ‘Cloud’ and the ‘Cake’ Too! – Part I

December 27, 2017

I was at the #Structure2017 conference and the term hybrid cloud (at last count a day and a half into a two-day conference) has been used 131 times. However – I hazard that between the panelists, interviewers or the audience members who used this term - all have different definitions interpretations of this catchphrase.

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Blogs Cyber Security Security Demystified

I Want to Have the ‘Cloud’ and the ‘Cake’ Too! – Part II

January 4, 2018

In Part I, I left you with a teaser about how a home moving dilemma is the state of the enterprise today for cloud migration. Let’s now dig into the challenges that CIOs and CSOs are facing today in their journey to the Hybrid Cloud.

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Blogs Cyber Security Security Demystified

My Quest to end my Woes ends in a nought Outcome!

January 11, 2018

Innovative healthcare technology solutions are raising serious security and privacy concerns. And that has to be addressed. It needs to start with patient advocacy and transparency. And stricter regulations that can be tested by the patients.

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Cyber Security Insights

Protecting Data in 2018: What Cloud Service Providers and Customers Should Know

May 10, 2018

Today’s heightened threat level imposes responsibilities on both sides of the equation: Cloud service providers must continually evaluate their security posture to offer rigorous protection to customers. And leaders protecting their organization must choose the solution that best meets their unique security needs.

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Cyber Security Insights

Major CASB Use Cases for Securing Your Cloud

April 25, 2019

Migration to the cloud presents many unique challenges in protecting your data. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) can help protect corporate data while embracing cloud applications and services.

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Cyber Security News

Mystery Unsecured Cloud Database Exposes Personal Information of Over Half of America’s Households

May 14, 2019

Personal information of over 80 million U.S. households was exposed from an unsecured cloud database, while the owner of the database remains unknown.

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Data Privacy Insights

Closer to the Edge: Why Smaller, Better Systems Are Heading to Edge Computing

May 24, 2019

Edge computing eliminates latency and brings information closer to the location of where it is needed instead of far away servers, it provides performance benefit and gives the control of data privacy back to users.

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Cyber Security News

2019 Sans Institute Cloud Security Survey Reveals Top Threats, Which Surprisingly Are Not DDoS Attacks

May 28, 2019

Recent cloud security survey shows that even though businesses have increased their awareness on security threats, 19% still experienced a data breach, with account hijacking being the top attack method.