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This blog is part of a series about how to use Vanta and AWS to simplify your organization’s cloud security. To learn more about how to use Vanta and AWS, watch our Coffee and Compliance on-demand webinar. ‍ Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the most popular cloud providers for organizations today — providing one of the most flexible and secure cloud environments available.

After serving as its steward for over a decade, Trustwave has agreed to transfer the reins of the renowned open-source web application firewall (WAF) engine, ModSecurity, to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP). This landmark move promises to inject fresh energy and perspectives into the project, ensuring its continued evolution as a vital line of defense for countless websites worldwide.

The Sysdig Threat Research Team discovered techniques that allowed the AWS WAF to be bypassed using a specialized DOM event. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) serve as the first line of defense for your web applications, acting as a filter between your application and incoming web traffic to protect against unauthorized or malicious activity. In this blog post, we will analyze one of the most commonly used Web Application Firewalls, the AWS WAF, and explain ways that allowed it to be bypassed.

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Cloudflare’s DDoS Threat Report. This edition covers DDoS trends and key findings for the fourth and final quarter of the year 2023, complete with a review of major trends throughout the year.

The modern enterprise is all about the cloud. Digital transformation includes not only the adoption of cloud computing through application migration, but a transition from disk storage to cloud storage. Cloud storage has some key advantages over traditional disk storage, including the following: While there are multiple cloud storage options available today, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Storage is a logical choice for Microsoft Azure customers.

“Not another AI tool!” Yes, we hear you. Nevertheless, AI is here to stay and generative AI coding tools, in particular, are causing a headache for security leaders. We discussed why recently in our Why you need a security companion for AI-generated code post. Purchasing a new security tool to secure generative AI code is a weighty consideration. It needs to serve both the needs of your security team and those of your developers, and it needs to have a roadmap to avoid obsolescence.

The term “cloud” in the domain of IT infrastructure and computing conjures images of a rather abstract concept for storing data – most don’t know how it works and where it is located. A common misconception is that it lacks a physical location. This, however, is not true – cloud ecosystems operate from servers, and these servers always have a physical location.

Zero Trust is a cybersecurity approach that’s vital in today’s interconnected world, where security breaches are a persistent threat. The principle is straightforward: trust no one and verify everything. Instead of assuming a secure perimeter, Zero Trust requires continuous authentication and validation for anyone trying to access network resources, whether they’re inside or outside the organisation.

A recent news article from Bleeping Computer called out an incident involving Japanese game developer Ateam, in which a misconfiguration in Google Drive led to the potential exposure of sensitive information for nearly one million individuals over a period of six years and eight months. Such incidents highlight the critical importance of securing cloud services to prevent data breaches.