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Beyond cost savings, a key driver of cloud adoption is the innovation that the cloud enables. The cloud can accelerate business. As a result, the cloud is increasingly the place where data—an organization’s most valuable asset—is stored and shared. Securing that information is a shared responsibility between a company and their cloud providers.

Companies of all sizes are adopting cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office 365, to give their employees greater flexibility and easier access to core business applications. Enabling such flexibility without considering the risks exposes gaps in traditional data security solutions. These gaps include a lack of visibility and control of sensitive data once it leaves the perimeter, inconsistent data loss detection across multiple environments (endpoints, networks, and the cloud), and the absence of centralized management for incident workflows and reporting, regardless where the violations occur. 

Forward-thinking organizations like yours are moving to cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services® (AWS) to improve agility and reduce total cost of ownership. But upgrading the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) management console to the cloud can often be delayed due to lack of time and skilled resources, especially if you are architecting and deploying it on AWS for the first time. By using industry best practices and proven methodologies, the McAfee cloud enablement services for McAfee ePO helps expedite your transition to the cloud and enjoy peace of mind, knowing that your deployment maximizes your security effectiveness and efficiency. Together, we can help your organization take full advantage of your AWS cloud platform.

Cloud services bring a momentous opportunity to accelerate business through their ability to quickly scale, allow us to be agile with our resources, and provide new opportunities for collaboration. As we all take advantage of the cloud, there’s one thing we can’t forget — our data. When using software-as-a-service (SaaS) we are responsible for the security of our data, and need to ensure it is accessed appropriately. When using infrastructure-asa-service (IaaS) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS), we are additionally responsible for the security of our workloads, and need to ensure the underlying application and infrastructure components are not misconfigured.

AWS takes care of security ‘of’ the cloud while AWS customers are responsible for security ‘in’ the cloud. This document guides customers on how to ensure the highest level of protection for their AWS infrastructure and the sensitive data stored in AWS with a 51-point security configuration checklist to ensure that AWS services are configured with the highest level of security while still allowing employees to fulfill their job responsibilities.

"Cyber Hygiene"—like so many buzzwords in our industry, this one gets more use than understanding. What exactly is cyber hygiene? Do government agencies keep it up sufficiently? If not, why not? How does cyber hygiene affect an agency's ability to implement advanced security technology? What are the financial, psychological, and technological factors that affect cyber hygiene? This webinar, featuring Don MacLean, Steve Potter, David Henderson, and Paul Parker, explores these topics and more.

One of the biggest concerns is not the threats of today, but the threats of tomorrow. DHS is seeing emerging threats outpacing our businesses which is unacceptable.

For the past two years, Sumo Logic has produced the first and only industry report that quantitatively defines the state of the Modern App Stack. Working with our customers, we continue to see rapid advances in tools and processes used by various enterprise personas to build, run and secure modern applications. This third annual report extends our analysis to DevSecOps, a new and innovative trend that is rapidly growing amongst our customers.

Organizations around the world are adopting, building or shifting resources, applications and workloads to the cloud to take advantage of the inherent competitive, economic and agility gains that can be achieved in this environment. However many of these organizations are finding that their legacy network and security tools are not able to provide them with the scalability and insights they need, to continue tightly managing their security and compliance requirements in the cloud.

The following report, sponsored by Sumo Logic, is based on a global survey of 316 IT security professionals responsible for environments with significant investment in both cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The goal of this survey was to quantify current experiences with adopting traditional security methods in the cloud, with a focus on both organizations and tools.

What Really Drives Security Procurements and Decisions

Hidden Lake Technology has contracted with DLT Solutions to provide professional services in support of DLT’s Amazon Web Services customer base. These engineering services will support the Amazon Web Services platform and related customer challenges including consulting, migrations, security and cloud optimization. This strategic partnership brings a top services delivery team into the DLT Partner Network, expanding capabilities and maximizing value for customers.

Insider cybersecurity threats are much more prevalent than most of us realize. IBM estimates that 60% of all cyberattacks are perpetrated by those with insider access1; McAfee cites enterprise insiders as a major source of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) sold on the dark web, particularly in the healthcare industry; and at least two-thirds of major corporations reported insider threat incidents in 20163 ranging from file theft and destruction to selling passwords and deliberately sabotaging critical systems. Over 40% of U.S. government agencies report such incidents every year. It's a serious—yet incredibly overlooked—risk.

Year after year, investigations performed after breaches and other security incidents reveal that the majority of security incidents occur because well-known security controls and practices were not implemented or were not working as organizations had assumed. And the major problem in cyber security remains a lack of defined and repeatable processes for selecting, implementing and monitoring the security controls that are most effective against real-world threats.