With the emergence of cloud adoption and BYOD in the workplace, companies are experiencing an overwhelming amount of data breaches. This is largely because they are not taking the appropriate steps to secure data in the cloud. As such, Bitglass conducted a survey with IT professionals from a leading cybersecurity community in order to uncover the state of security within organizations today.
Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks:
After returning from a trip to Boston for AWS re:inforce, I thought it would be good to share some of the key takeaways from the event.
First off, I’d like to thank AWS for putting together a first-class event with great sessions, activities, and attendees. We had a great time in Boston with the AWS team and thoroughly enjoyed the Silent Disco.
Slack is becoming one of the most popular workplace collaboration tools, making the security of the data on the application absolutely vital for the companies that utilize it. Every day, Slack users send countless messages and files to each other, and many companies lack the resources to constantly monitor those exchanges. With Slack’s private channels and direct messaging capabilities, IT admins may not even have visibility over what information is being shared – this poses great risk for the security of the data. Employees are able to share files with each other that could include personally identifiable information (PII), internal plans or documentation, or other sensitive data over which companies should have full visibility and control.