Cloud Security Podcast

Cloud Security News this week 06 October 2021

• AWS has announced the availability of AWS Cloud Control API - a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS Cloud Control API can be used to create, read, update, delete, and list (CRUD-L) your cloud resources that belong to a wide range of services—both AWS and third-party...

Cloud Security News this week 14 October 2021

It's an eventful month for all things cloud as Google Cloud Next 21 and Kubecon are happening this week. Ashish from Cloud Security Podcast was co-hosting the Capture the Flag today with Magno Logan from Trend Micro, you can check it out here.

In next week’s episode we will be bringing to you the best bits from Kubecon and Google Cloud Next 21...

Cloud Security News this week 20 October 2021

• Google Cloud is adding new features to their zero trust access solution, BeyondCorp Enterprise which will enable identity and context-aware access to non-web applications running in Google Cloud and non-Google Cloud environments. They also claim to be making it easier for admins to diagnose access failure, triage events, and unblock users with the new Policy Troubleshooter feature...

Cloud Security News this week 21 October 2021

It's a month full of conferences and as promised we are back with our 2nd episode this week to bring you the cloud security highlights from KubeCon. In this episode we will share some of our team’s favourite from Kubecon 2021 North America

If you aren't quite familiar with the wonderful world of Kubernetes, there are a few weird and wonderful open source acronyms in today’s episode...

Cloud Security News this week 22 October 2021

Hope you have been enjoying your Cloud Security News this week and in our special third instalment for this week we bring you our best bits from Hashiconf Global 2021, conference held by Hashicorp...

Cloud Security News this week 27 October 2021

• UK’s spy agencies have given a contract to AWS to host classified material. Their intention is to boost use of data analytics and artificial intelligence for espionage. The agreement, estimated by industry experts to be worth £500m to £1bn over the next decade...

Cloud Security News this week 27 October 2021

• In case you missed the quarterly earnings updates from last episode, I do encourage you to check it out to see how Google Cloud and Azure faired last Quarter. AWS came out still leading the pack $16.11 billion in the quarter, up almost 39% from a year ago...

Cloud Security News this week 10 November 2021

• Microsoft is extending its native cloud security posture management (CSPM) and workload protection capabilities to Amazon Web Services (AWS) - yes you heard that right! within a suite called Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This was previously know as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender At their annual conference Ignite 2021, their focus was enterprise cloud protection, specially multi cloud environments...

Cloud Security News this week 17 November 2021

• According to a research by Trend Micro, Elastic Computing Service (ECS) instances for Alibab Cloud are becoming an increasingly common target for financially motivated hackers with cryptomining goals. This increased targeting may be due to a few unique features of Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba ECS instances come with a preinstalled security agent and provides root access/ privileged control by default...

Cloud Security News this week 24 November 2021

• CSA recently announced that they have now had 1500 Cloud services evaluated across to the STAR registry principles. According to CSA, by publishing to the registry organizations can show current and potential customers their security and compliance posture which may prevent the need for them to complete multiple security questionnaires...