Tag: cyber tools
73% of SME Security Professionals Failed to Act on a High Priority Security Alert – April 17th
According to a survey from Coro, 73% of SME cybersecurity professionals admittedly say that they've missed, ignored, or failed to act accordingly on a high-priority security alert. The survey also found respondents to spend an average of 4 hours and 43 minutes managing their cyber security tools daily, with an average of 11.55 tools in their security stack.
Storm gathers over the cloud
News of the mass exploitation of ownCloud customers as a result of a zero-day vulnerability follows revelations earlier this month of a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Reports of gaping security flaws in cloud services come at a bad time for cloud service providers in general and Microsoft in particular. The Seattle-based computing giant is currently doing its utmost to persuade the US, UK, and Australian governments that its Azure Government Cloud is the best way for the AUKUS trio to securely update cross-border information and enhance mutual collaboration. This might prove problematic for Microsoft, whose Azure platform was recently proven to have a critical vulnerability, and some of whose government clients suffered a series of serious breaches earlier this year.