Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

When working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we often find that various AWS services need to store and manage secrets. AWS Secrets Manager is the go-to solution for this. It's a centralized service designed to help manage sensitive information securely, significantly reduce the risk of credential compromise, and facilitate your credential management process. However, there's more to it than just storing secrets.

Enterprises today generate and store colossal volumes of data in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Gen 2, leveraging these services for cloud-native workloads, archives, and artificial intelligence (AI) training models. However, with the deluge of information comes the amplified risk of exposure to security blind spots and the potential compromise of sensitive, mission-critical data.

Cloud security teams are faced with an ever-increasing number of challenges. Attackers are focusing on more cloud-native attacks than ever. Meanwhile, the number of cloud service offerings—and by extension, the number of misconfigurations in them—is only growing. And there is always the risk that a sophisticated adversary could abuse a vulnerability in a cloud service provider to target cloud customers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) has become a cornerstone in the world of cloud storage. It offers scalability, high availability, and performance, making it a go-to choice for businesses of all sizes. However, as with any cloud service, security is paramount. This is where the question of "how to secure an S3 bucket" comes into play. Securing your S3 buckets is not just about protecting your data from unauthorized access.

Over the last twelve months, the Internet security landscape has changed dramatically. Geopolitical uncertainty, coupled with an active 2024 voting season in many countries across the world, has led to a substantial increase in malicious traffic activity across the Internet. In this report, we take a look at Cloudflare’s perspective on Internet application security. This report is the fourth edition of our Application Security Report and is an official update to our Q2 2023 report.

Mobile devices have become so integral to both business and personal lives that it is difficult to imagine a life without them. There’s more attack surface area as a result, and it’s IT’s job to mitigate the risk of cyberattacks. Insider threats are often involved, because employees and their devices can be one of the weakest links in the security chain.