Tag: IT risk & security

Although the flagship launch at Microsoft Ignite, which wound up on Wednesday, was the flashy Microsoft Mesh , there were many security-focused product and feature announcements that should bring a smile to admins’ faces. Here’s a look at some of what’s here now and what’s coming.

More customers than ever are shopping from home in the current health environment, and companies are responding by rapidly deploying cloud-based e-commerce solutions. Azure is helping these companies meet their customers’ needs with robust, customizable, and scalable e-commerce solutions that process transactions quickly and securely.

Multiple technology service providers — including Amazon Web Services, Okta and Stripe — suspended or terminated service to Parler after the January 6, 2021 mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol building. This effectively resulted in Parler’s business being shut down, or “deplatformed.” As a result, business leaders are revisiting their risk management strategies to understand how exposed they would be if a critical online service contract were terminated.

Resources hosted on Azure App Service are at the forefront as attackers are constantly on the lookout for vulnerabilities in web applications. Dormant domains are a permanent resident on the checklist of both opportunistic and target-oriented attackers.

This is the second part of my blog and webinar series on AI governance and risk management. My previous blog post and webinar discussed how AI is driving the need for data and technology governance to evolve and expand its scope to include ethics, accountability, and risk management

This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager & Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. 2020 was a year unlike any other. It brought major disruptions to both the physical and digital worlds, and these changes are also evident in the cyberthreat landscape.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Google’s comprehensive zero trust product offering, BeyondCorp Enterprise, which extends and replaces BeyondCorp Remote Access. Google is no stranger to zero trust—we’ve been on this journey for over a decade with our own implementation of BeyondCorp, a technology suite we use internally to protect Google’s applications, data, and users

Security and risk management leaders are experiencing widespread disruption in identity and access management (IAM) solutions for many reasons, most notably because of the increased drive to customer-facing interactions on digital channels and the sudden and rapid expansion of the remote workforce because of the pandemic. “IAM challenges have become increasingly complex,” says Akif Khan , Senior Director Analyst, Gartner, “and many organizations lack the skills and resources to manage effectively.

Three years ago,  Gartner predicted  that by 2020 there would be 20 billion connected ‘things’ in circulation. A lot has changed in three years. In fact, a lot has changed in the last 12 months, says Mikael Schachne ,  CMO and VP of Mobility & IoT at  BICS .

While the benefits of digitization and advanced analytics are well documented, the risk challenges often remain hidden.

During my last 20 years of IT projects and consultancy across enterprise businesses, I have seen recurring patterns being implemented to deliver a resilient IT strategy. Challenges across security, operation, innovation, data strategy, and insights are very common for enterprises looking to modernize. 2020 has so far proven to be a very challenging year for everyone, and enterprises want to plan, architect, and build resilient strategies to keep their business successful.

In November, the Kubernetes project disclosed a vulnerability which every Kuberenetes administrator or adopter should be aware of. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2020-8554 , stems from default permissions allowing users to create objects that could act as a “Man in the Middle” and therefore potentially intercept sensitive data.