Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Your cloud security must stand alone Partner Content As cloud adoption accelerates, many organizations are increasingly relying on the native security features offered by cloud service providers (CSPs). The ability to manage web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption, and key management (KMS) within a single provider ecosystem appears efficient and convenient. However, when security and reliability are viewed through the lens of enterprise risk management, this convenience may come at a significant cost.…

Affects users regardless of when their backups were created SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…

Vendor pulls plug on cloud backup feature, urges admins to reset passwords and re-secure devices SonicWall is telling some customers to reset passwords after attackers broke into its cloud backup service and accessed firewall configuration data.…

Let customers interfere with other tenants? That's our cloud working by design, Redmond seems to say A vulnerability — or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask — in Microsoft's cloud potentially allows miscreants to wave away firewall rules and access other people's private web resources.…

Identity governance and SOCs also on the menu Microsoft is rolling out its usual host of cloud security features and services at this week's Ignite 2022 conference, with the focus on what's happening in and outside the firewall.…