Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For folks who are responsible for threat detection of any kind for their organizations, the cloud can often be a difficult area to approach. At the time of writing, Amazon Web Services contains over two hundred services, while the Azure cloud offers six hundred. Each of these services can generate unique telemetry and each surface can present defenders with a unique attack path to handle. Adding to this complexity is the diversity of cloud workload configurations, as well as varying architecture models.

BMO Bank is the 8th largest bank in the United States, employing over 12,000 individuals. The bank manages more than $3 Billion in annual reserves and works with a huge number of customers as it has over 1,000 physical locations across the country. BMO Bank is based in Chicago, Illinois, but has locations throughout the country. If you bank with BMO, your data may be at risk, because the organization was recently hacked and lost a significant amount of customer data.

Risk mitigation is at the heart of cybersecurity. By connecting to the Internet, implementing upgraded IT systems, or adding a new vendor to your organization, you are automatically exposing your business to some level of cyber risk. With outsourcing on the rise and a growing reliance on vendors who are processing, storing, and transmitting sensitive data, assessing and mitigating risk is becoming increasingly important.

Enterprises implementing containers and Kubernetes in either corporate datacenters or cloud environments typically employ Checkpoint Quantum to secure traffic between their datacenter networks and Checkpoint CloudGuard to safeguard their cloud resources. Often these network security perimeter focused solutions are also used to scrutinize traffic originating from Kubernetes clusters.