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Under the Hood: What it Takes to Deliver Cloud Security That Performs
Why data is the ‘oil’ of modern M&A Merger and acquisitions (M&A) are big in tech and have been so in the digital infrastructure space. So much so that the market often says there is way more...
Why IT needs smarter cloud security
By Anurag Kahol | 24th January 2022 | Bitglass https://www.bitglass.com/ Categories: Security, Anurag Kahol is CTO at Bitglass. For IT and security professionals, the job is getting more complex day by day. With widely dispersed teams fast becoming the norm, new technologies emerging and an ever-increasing level of threats, it’s a big job and a lot to keep on top of. There is no doubt that IT needs smarter security.
Is BYOD the final mile to Digital Transformation success? Original
Article by Forcepoint company Bitglass, founder and CTO, Anurag Kahol. The concept of bring your own device (BYOD) has been around for years, but since the shift to more remote and hybrid working around the world, its popularity has reached bold new heights. For many businesses without established remote working policies in place, BYOD was the only way they could stay operational during multiple national lockdowns and restrictions on movement over the past 18 months.
Knowing Your Network: Identity Management
The increasing number of cyber-attacks on consumers, and businesses alike, highlights the fact that the corporate world has a lot to reflect upon when it comes to how we protect digital identities and safeguard our data. Anurag Kahol, co-founder of Bitglass, a Forcepoint Company, discusses the risks of password usage, regulatory compliance, and the importance of better identity and access management (IAM) processes in the workplace.
Council Post: Can Zero Trust Save Enterprises From A Threat Tsunami?
Anurag Kahol is the CTO and Co-Founder of Bitglass where he expedites the company's technology direction and architecture. getty The shift to remote work will be a permanent facet of the working economy. However, our data shows many companies and their employees have not taken adequate steps to protect against the risks and security threats that accompany remote and hybrid work environments. The stark reality is that threats from cybercriminals are increasing at an alarming rate.
What is Identity and Access Management, and Why is it so important?
Despite many high-profile instances of online fraud, it can be easy to become complacent about the dangers. But in today’s world, where all of us have a unique digital identity based on our online presence, the threats are very real. Our social media activity, healthcare and financial records, login credentials and web history are all at risk. If we want to prevent identity theft and fraud, we need to protect our digital identities.
4 Key Questions for Zero-Trust Success
Anurag Kahol, CTO & co-founder at Bitglass, offers tips for avoiding implementation pitfalls for zero trust. Historically, securing remote access was primarily done using VPNs. However, as enterprises have begun to understand the principles of zero trust, which states that no user may access any data source without first being authenticated, VPNs are proving to be insufficient. The demand for secure remote access to on-premises resources has been steadily rising for years.
Insider Threat Awareness Month: How the Biggest Threats May Be Coming From Within
Insider threats continue to be one of the largest dangers facing the majority of organisations. These may not always be malicious hackers, but could be careless employees leaking data. Either way, the damage can be extensive and can often go unnoticed meaning by the time it is picked up, the losses to the company are huge.
iTWire - Let's prioritise where cloud-centric organisations should focus data protection
GUEST OPINION: For many organisations, creating an effective data protection strategy to support the adoption of remote work and cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly urgent. But in working to mitigate risks and build robust processes, IT leaders face a range of challenges, and getting the priorities right is key to overcoming issues as varied as data leakage, compliance and access control, all while maximising user experience. So where should they start?
Working Together for Privacy Protection: Identity Management Best Practices for Companies and Consumers
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation efforts across businesses by three years. As a result, people are spending more time online than ever before. This shift has led to a massive influx of valuable data on the web that has become increasingly difficult to manage and track. Many organizations aren’t equipped with adequate security to prevent data theft and fraud, and most consumers lack the awareness that would help them safeguard their own digital identity.
Why IT needs smarter cloud security
For IT and security professionals, the job of keeping the enterprise secure is becoming an ever more complex proposition. In addition to the fact that distributed working looks set to become a permanent feature, keeping up with a raft of emerging new technologies while dealing with the rising tide of cyber threats means there is a growing number of tasks to keep on top of.
Council Post: The Economics Of A Comprehensive Security Program
Anurag Kahol is the CTO and Co-Founder of Bitglass where he expedites the company's technology direction and architecture. getty Enterprises have been adopting cloud and IT solutions to support remote work and gain competitive advantages long before Covid-19 swept the globe. However, the rate of cloud adoption has increased due to the pandemic and will likely continue to increase even once stay-at-home orders are lifted.
Portrait of a changing landscape: Five key security trends affecting businesses in a post-COVID world
You are here:Home » Portrait of a changing landscape: Five key security trends affecting businesses in a post-COVID world bitglass, covid-19, remote work, wfh Securing the remote workforce has become a critical, yet unexpected, priority for thousands of organisations forced to close their offices and workplaces in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, a combination of short timelines and lack of preparation have made it much more challenging than they originally anticipated.
Conti Ransomware Group Leak Irish Patients' Data on Dark Web - Expert Comment
Almost a week after the significant ransomware attack on the Ireland Health Service (HSE) network, the group responsible has started leaking patients’ medical and personal details online. HSE publicly disclosed the attack on Friday, when the organisation announced that it had shut down its IT systems. The attack affected diagnostic services and forced many hospitals to cancel appointments.
Five key security trends affecting businesses in a post-COVID world
Securing the remote workforce has become a critical, yet unexpected, priority for thousands of organisations forced to close their offices and workplaces in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, a combination of short timelines and lack of preparation have made it much more challenging than originally anticipated. Let us explore some of the main trends and issues faced by these organisations in recent months, as discovered in my company’s recent Remote Work Report 2021.
Anurag Kahol, CTO, Bitglass
Anurag Kahol Anurag Kahol is co-founder and chief technology officer at Bitglass. He expedites technology direction and architecture. Kahol was director of engineering in Juniper Networks’ Security Business Unit before co-founding Bitglass. Kahol received a global education, earning an M.S. in computer science from Colorado State University, and a B.S. in computer science from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.
Where cloud-centric organisations should prioritise their data protection
With remote working becoming commonplace, many organisations need an effective data protection strategy to support their expanding cloud infrastructure. But in working to mitigate risks and build robust processes, IT leaders face a range of challenges, and getting the priorities right is key to overcoming issues as varied as data leakage, compliance, and access control - all while maximising user experience. So, where should they start?
SASE or zero trust? Why security teams should be using both
As companies continue to navigate increasingly distributed environments, the question of zero trust is coming up more and more – as is the relationship between this framework and secure access service edge (SASE). Many security teams are looking to better understand zero trust security and SASE, including whether or not they are mutually exclusive or compatible.
What Does Growing Cloud Adoption Mean for Enterprise Security?
There’s no doubt that 2020 saw a significant growth in the adoption of cloud services and infrastructure across many sectors. Back in April, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was quoted as saying his company had seen, “two years of digital transformation in two months”. In fact, Microsoft hosted more than 200 million Teams participants on a single April day – a figure illustrative of the wider shift to the cloud.
Danger sous-estimé, les systèmes de gestion des bâtiments peuvent mettre en péril l’intégrité des processus
Du fait de l’essor de la mise en réseau et de la numérisation, ces systèmes, autrefois isolés, sont de plus en plus souvent connectés au réseau des entreprises et à Internet. Bien que les exploitants bénéficient ainsi de performances accrues, d’une consommation énergétique optimisée et d’une meilleure rentabilité, la connectivité croissante les expose également aux risques liés la cybersécurité.
Why consumer privacy is crucial in a remote work era
Article by Bitglass CTO and co-founder Anurag Kahol. The past year proved to be a time of dramatic change for companies and consumers worldwide, as the shift to remote work led to a surge in cloud usage as users, devices, apps and data were forced to move off-premises. In fact, 54% of organisations confirm that the pandemic accelerated the migration of workflows to cloud-based apps.
Why consumer privacy is crucial in a remote work era
Bitglass co-founder and CTO Anurag Kahol Guest Opinion by Anurag Kahol, CTO and co-founder of Bitglass. The past year proved to be a time of dramatic change for companies and consumers all around the world, as the shift to remote work led to a surge in cloud usage as users, devices, apps and data were forced to move off-premises. In fact, 54% of organisations confirm that the pandemic accelerated migration of workflows to cloud-based apps. Hacking and IT incidents are on the rise.
Maintaining Consumer Privacy in a Remote Work Era
Click to learn more about author Anurag Kahol. This past year proved to be a time of dramatic change for companies and consumers all around the world. The remote work shift led to a surge in cloud usage as users, devices, apps, and data were forced to move off-premises. In fact, 54 percent of organizations confirm that the pandemic accelerated the migration of workflows to cloud-based apps.
Cyber. Le phishing principale menace des entreprises françaises
La question reste encore de savoir ce qu’est le phishing ? Une arnaque au président ? Ou un déni de service… Voici quelques définitions de ces cybermenaces. Phishing (ou hameçonnage) Le site internet du ministère de l’Économie résume le phishing comme étant « une technique frauduleuse destinée à leurrer l’internaute pour l’inciter à communiquer des données personnelles (comptes d’accès, mots de passe…) et/ou bancaires en se faisant passer pour un tiers de confiance ».
Know the 4 tenets of productive WFH security
In the rush to implement work-from-home processes, organizations may have missed out some important principles that can facilitate productivity. With so many people now working from home, the corresponding surge in app usage, unmanaged devices, web traffic, and accessing internal resources is making security a much trickier prospect.
Datenzentrierte Sicherheit in der Multi-Cloud
Datenzentrierung ist ein Faktor, der maßgeblich die Cloud- und IT-Security-Strategie in Unternehmen mitbestimmt. Je nach regulatorischen Vorgaben werden diverse Datenprozesse in geeigneter Weise abgesichert. Mit der wachsenden Cloud-Nutzung in den vergangenen Jahren entstehen in Unternehmen auch mehr und mehr Multi-Cloud-Umgebungen. Für diese spricht vor allem der Vorteil hoher Effizienz: Prozesse können zu den jeweils geringsten Kosten zu den am besten geeigneten Anbietern ausgelagert werden.
IT-Security Ausblick 2021: Unternehmen unter Druck
Das Jahr 2020 war beispiellos. Rückblickend fällt es zunächst schwer, Highlights oder "gute Nachrichten" zu identifizieren. Betrachtet man das Jahr hingegen aus technologischer Sicht, lässt sich ein Silberstreifen am Horizont erkennen. Die „wir bleiben zuhause“-Anordnungen der Regierungen haben zu einem großen Sprung in den digitalen Transformationsbemühungen von Unternehmen geführt.
SASE : la nouvelle tendance pour la sécurité digitale
La pandémie globale a accéléré le mouvement des utilisateurs, équipements, applications et données en dehors des infrastructures des entreprises et des organisations. Le travail à distance, l’accès à partir d’équipements personnels et l’utilisation d’applications Cloud n’ont cessé de se développer, dans la mesure où ils offraient la flexibilité et la connectivité dont les entreprises et organisations ont besoin pour s’adapter et survivre au cours de ces temps difficiles.
Datensicherheit jenseits des Netzwerks: SASE-Plattformen
Unternehmen sind überaus anpassungsfähig, wie sich in der Pandemiekrise gezeigt hat. Schnell wurden neue Workflows geschaffen, die den Geschäftsbetrieb vollständig digital aufrecht erhalten. Die Zusammenarbeit erfolgt über Collaboration-Tools, die Bearbeitung von wichtigen Dokumenten über Cloudanwendungen und die persönliche Abstimmung in Einzelfällen über Messenger-Dienste auf privaten Mobilgeräten.
How to securely flourish in remote work with zero trust: A step-by-step guide
The idea of commuting to an office space for work increasingly feels like an outdated approach, especially as we are months into stay-at-home orders amid COVID-19. However, not long ago, some businesses were resistant to the idea of remote work, citing fears such as reduced employee output.
Cybersecurity Threats and Opportunities to Expect in 2021
Click to learn more about author Anurag Kahol. 2020 has been an extremely tumultuous year. From a cybersecurity perspective, multiple high-profile Twitter users’ accounts were hacked in a sophisticated Bitcoin scam, remote workers became the priority focus for threat actors amid COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, and California has a stringent data privacy proposition in the works that is likely to become a law.
Seven cybersecurity predictions for 2021
With 2021 a few months away, what will the landscape of cybersecurity look like for enterprises? What will be the main focuses, risks and considerations for the coming year for cybersecurity leaders and professionals? Here's a list of seven predictions that will affect enterprises and cybersecurity leaders: Remote workers will be the focus of cybercriminals through 2021. Cybercriminals will always follow users and launch attacks that exploit their behaviors and habits.
Updating the IT Security Playbook for the Cloud
Digital transformation has been a top priority for many organizations across all industries, including government agencies. On top of this, the rise of the remote workforce has made the traditional on-premises approach to operations and cybersecurity obsolete.
It’s Time for Government Agencies to Secure Their Multicloud Environments
By Anurag Kahol, Chief Technology Officer, Bitglass Multicloud is the new norm for government agencies, as 81% now use more than one cloud platform. The use of the cloud enables enterprises across all sectors to share, collaborate and work much more efficiently and flexibly, particularly in our highly remote business world. However, cloud (and multicloud in particular) can be extremely challenging to organize, manage and secure.
SASE: The New Wave Of Securing The Enterprise
Anurag Kahol is the CTO and Co-Founder of Bitglass where he expedites the company's technology direction and architecture. Getty The global pandemic has accelerated the rate at which users, devices, apps and data are moving off premises. Remote work, personal device access and cloud application usage have continued to increase, as they provide the flexibility and access that companies need in order to adapt and survive in these trying times.
Post COVID-19: Cloud, Remote Work and BYOD Security Predictions
By Anurag Kahol, CTO and co-founder, Bitglass Cloud adoption has already been growing rapidly, but we’ll see a sharp increase in adoption in 2020 as a result of the global pandemic. Recent events have impacted businesses and schools all around the world, causing them to shift to remote work wherever possible. Cloud adoption gives employees and students the freedom to operate from the safety of their homes by granting remote access to needed data and services.
How COVID-19 changed the future of work
COVID-19 forced businesses across the globe to rapidly adopt remote work in order to adhere to social distancing and stay-at-home orders. For some companies, this transition was seamless, especially those that already implemented cloud and the necessary supporting tools within their organizations. Others struggled to adapt their workforces to this highly remote, cloud-first environment.
Remote Work, Insider Threats and More : @VMblog
By: Anurag Kahol, CTO of Bitglass Working from home went from a luxury to a necessity for most parts of the world in March 2020, leaving many organizations scrambling to adjust. Cybercriminals have been preying on this shift as the sudden change left some organizations unprepared from a security perspective, creating an increased attack surface as well as heightened anxieties. This adds up to a perfect breeding ground for attacks.
Considerations for Seamless CCPA Compliance
Three steps to better serve consumers, ensure maximum security, and achieve compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect at the beginning of the year, and the enforcement date of July 1 is just around the corner — with no signs of an extension.
How Employees Can Securely Work Anywhere
The recent outbreak of coronavirus has impacted businesses all around the world, shifting the workforce to work remotely, where possible. With this shift, it’s painfully clear that not all companies are prepared for their employees to work remotely at the drop of a hat.
The rising cost of data breaches in the healthcare sector
Trending SC Awards Europe 2020 In the US alone, the overall cost of healthcare breaches in 2019 was US$ 11.8 billion (£9.2 billion) – more than double the 2018 figure, & healthcare breach discovery time is the longest for any industry.
Solving the security challenges of remote working
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused what is likely to be the biggest shift towards remote working that the world has ever seen. But, while the technology has been around for quite some time, recent events demonstrate just how few businesses are capable of switching from an office-based setup to a remote one in a fast, secure, and non-disruptive manner.
Protecting corporate data in popular cloud-based collaborative apps
Cloud adoption has grown at an astonishing rate, providing organizations with the freedom to store data in numerous cloud applications that meet their specific business demands. Additionally, migrating to the cloud gives employees the ability to access work material from anywhere and anytime. This increases productivity by allowing employees to collaborate remotely with applications like G Suite, Office 365, Salesforce, and Slack (to name a few).
How to build a secure remote working organisation
The recent impact of coronavirus has placed massive strain on businesses all around the world, changing working culture virtually overnight to make remote working an urgent priority. What quickly became clear, however, is not all companies were in a position to enable their employees to work remotely at such short notice.
The inside scoop on insider threats
Cybercriminals continue to develop new attack methods that pose a serious risk to enterprise security, but they are not the only threats enterprises need to defend against. Employees – whether well-meaning but careless or those with malicious intentions, pose a great risk. In fact, insider threats are among the leading causes of data breaches. Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) found that approximately 34% of breaches involved internal actors.
How Employees Can Securely Work Anywhere
The recent outbreak of coronavirus has impacted businesses all around the world, shifting the workforce to work remotely, where possible. With this shift, it’s painfully clear that not all companies are prepared for their employees to work remotely at the drop of a hat.
Cloud Breaches Don't Have To Be Inevitable
Photo: Getty Cloud adoption continues to grow at an exponential rate. This is because cloud-based tools and services enable enterprises to evolve and match the business world’s seemingly endless productivity and flexibility demands. It is rare to come across an organization with a business model that is not at all impacted by cloud technologies; as such, it is no surprise that global public cloud revenue is forecasted to reach $249.8 billion this year.
Why Customer Data Protection is essential for organisations
Although Fortune 500 companies – and other major organisations worldwide – are focusing on corporate responsibility initiatives, customer protection seems to be another story. While organisations have made visible commitments to improve the environment, deliver transparency in their supply chains and cultivate diverse and inclusive corporate cultures, policies on the security of customer data are less apparent.
Slack : comment garantir la sécurité les données ?
Encore relativement anonyme il y a quelques années, Slack est aujourd’hui l’une des applications Cloud de collaboration en équipe les plus populaires au monde, avec plus de 10 millions d’utilisateurs actifs quotidiens et plus de 85 000 clients payants dans le monde. Pour de nombreuses entreprises, Slack est initialement utilisée sous forme de petits déploiements non autorisés (shadow IT) au sein de groupes de travail internes.
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