Every year, technologists wait for the AWS re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas like a four-year-old on Christmas Eve. At this event, Amazon Web Services announces most of their major product and feature releases, and this year was no exception. At Delta Risk, we pay close attention to these releases every year for ideas on ways we… Read More
The Marriott Starwood data breach has potentially exposed details of up to 500 million customers, which would place it well above the Experian breach of 2017 (143 million records) and the Anthem breach of 2015 (78.7 million records). Hackers are said to have copied and encrypted information after gaining access to data. That information included personal… Read More
Delta Risk CEO Scott Kaine was featured in a cloud security podcast last week as part of The Chertoff Group’s new “Insights & Intelligence” series. In the podcast, Kaine talks about how companies can safely move to the cloud, and key considerations for cloud security. The weekly podcast covers discussing cyber security, technology, security issues, and policy… Read More
As more businesses are moving towards cloud-based storage, programs and services at a rapid rate, cloud security is an increasingly important issue. But, it’s not one that comes without challenges. Among those challenges are: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)- Control over accounts, access to data Cloud Infrastructure- Lack of visibility into infrastructure security DevOps- Bypassing some security checkpoints, breaches in… Read More
Welcome to our third blog on incident response in the cloud. The first two posts primarily focused on the built-in capabilities from cloud service providers that can help your incident response efforts. We also discussed how to configure your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to take advantage of those features. Today, we are going to look at some tools that are… Read More
It’s easy to assume that cloud service providers are fully responsible for every aspect of cloud security. The truth is that configuration is an aspect of the shared responsibility model of cloud security that often falls in the hands of organizations using cloud services and platforms. IT and security professionals are taking notice of the security threat… Read More