Understanding Cloud Misconfiguration: Causes, Corrections, and Prevent

Understanding Cloud Misconfiguration: Causes, Corrections, and Prevent

Cloud misconfigurations leave systems vulnerable to a wide range of problems such as unauthorized access, malicious code insertions, data theft, and ransomware attacks. To detect, correct, and prevent cloud system misconfigurations, a proper understanding of the problem itself is essential. In this post, the focus will be on the most common mistakes that generally lead…

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Getting Aggressive with Cloud Cybersecurity

Getting Aggressive with Cloud Cybersecurity

If your organization isn’t already addressing cloud cybersecurity proactively, it’s risking disaster. Waiting for an attack to happen simply doesn’t make sense. Proactive cloud security takes active measures to spot potential threats and prevent cyberattacks before they take place, explains Nick Godfrey, senior director and global head, office of the CISO, at Google Cloud, in…

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The Treasury’s ‘Blueprint’ for Intelligence Community Cloud Modernization

The Treasury’s ‘Blueprint’ for Intelligence Community Cloud Modernization

The Treasury Department tapped the Technology Modernization Fund for the first time to finance its ongoing transition to a hybrid cloud solution. Employees will finally have the compute power to access terabytes of data from their desktops and experience a significant reduction in latency when the Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network cloud modernization project is complete….

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Gaining Visibility Into The Depths Of Your Cloud Environment

Gaining Visibility Into The Depths Of Your Cloud Environment

Jesse Stockall is Chief Architect, Snow Software. Getty Amid rising cloud spend and constrained IT budgets, FinOps—the practice of managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure with a cross-functional team of IT, cloud, finance and engineering—has gained tremendous traction. While it’s beneficial for organizations taking stock of their growing cloud infrastructure, the new practice cannot optimize every…

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Navigating Cloud Cost Complexity and Security

Navigating Cloud Cost Complexity and Security

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, today’s leading enterprises are seeking ways to optimize their operations and enhance their security measures. Cloud costs and security are two critical aspects that every organization must carefully manage, and they are more closely intertwined than you might think. Recent VMware research reveals that 95% of organizations believe…

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