CSO Daily

Nov 01, 2018

4 dangerous security assumptions to avoid

Many organizations take steps to guard against data breaches, employing new policies, tools and strategies that make them feel protected, but their defenses may not be as strong as they think. Unfortunately, this false sense of security is all-too-easy to come by. Read More ▶

Your Must-Read Stories

•	Beware the IoT spy in your office or home via smart furniture, warns NSA

•	Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC

•	Cybersecurity professional impressions on cloud-native security

•	How to build a multi-cloud security strategy

•	Top security enhancements in Windows Server 2019

Beware the IoT spy in your office or home via smart furniture, warns NSA

NSA discussed potential security and privacy issues of connected office furniture. Read More ▶

Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC

Amazon Web Services CISO Stephen Schmidt explains the company's recipe for combining security automation with ways to get management and staff to take security seriously. Read More ▶

Cybersecurity professional impressions on cloud-native security

Organization use cloud-native security controls, but they really want central management for cloud security across heterogeneous clouds. Read More ▶

How to build a multi-cloud security strategy

A number of security best practices have emerged alongside the growth of the multi-cloud environment, security experts say, and there are several critical steps that all organizations should take as they develop their own security strategies. Read More ▶

Top security enhancements in Windows Server 2019

This new version of Windows Server offers several significant security upgrades over Server 2016, including tools to track ransomware and other malware, and to track lateral movement attacks. Read More ▶

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