Cloud computing cyberattacks don’t play out like the scenes from Hollywood thrillers. No one is slowly lowering Tom Cruise into a preselected target’s secure data center equipped with ultrasensitive noise, temperature and motion detectors so he can steal a specific file.
In order for business leaders and cybersecurity professionals to gain the knowledge they need to thwart the hackers constantly targeting their cloud infrastructure and applications, they need to think like General George S. Patton (or rather like George C. Scott, the actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the general in the 1970 film “Patton”).
Ask security professionals to name the biggest threat to their organizations’ cloud environments, and most won’t hesitate to give a one-word answer: misconfigurations. Technically, they’re not incorrect, yet they’re defining “misconfiguration” much too narrowly. They’re likely thinking of an Amazon S3 bucket that’s left exposed or a misconfigured security group rule. While identifying and remediating misconfigurations must be a priority, it’s important to understand that misconfigurations are but one means to the ultimate end for attackers: control plane compromise, which has played a central role in every major cloud breach to date.
Today we announced that Fugue has been acquired by Snyk, the leader in developer-first security. This marks Snyk’s entry into the fast-growing cloud security market, and I want to share why I’m so excited about joining with them to build the future of security.
We recently announced support in Fugue for the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a set of recommendations Amazon Web Services provides for designing infrastructure for cloud applications and workloads.
What’s a cloud vulnerability? In the simplest terms, it’s an exploitable weakness in a cloud environment. Vulnerabilities are commonly caused by cloud resource misconfigurations and can lead to breaches and security failures — especially when the vulnerability is related to Identity and Access Management (IAM).
This month, Facebook and Twitch both suffered serious damage at their own hands, and every executive needs to understand what happened and how these types of incidents are preventable.
Today we announced that Fugue now supports Google Cloud, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud support is key to providing our customers with a unified view of—and control over—the security posture of their cloud environment across cloud platforms. It was a top customer request, and considering the number of Google Cloud Projects we’ve seen onboarded to Fugue over the past few days, it’s clear that Google Cloud is experiencing significant growth.
Today, Sonatype and Fugue have partnered to deliver the tools developers and operations need to address every meaningful cloud attack surface and ensure compliance at every stage of the SDLC with a single unified solution. Read the press release here.
Azure offers two similar but distinct services to allow virtual network (VNet) resources to privately connect to other Azure services. Azure VNet Service Endpoints and Azure Private Endpoints (powered by Azure Private Link) both promote network security by allowing VNet traffic to communicate with service resources without going over the internet, but there are some differences. This three-part blog series goes into detail about both services.