We have seen a spate of cloud service provider outages with overly negative economic impact. The AWS outage in December 2021 disrupted Disney+, Ticketmaster, Slack and Netflix, among a host of others. The Facebook (now Meta) outage in October 2021 was particularly painful. It not only took down WhatsApp...

How many of you still participate in-person meetings on a daily basis? If this question was asked before the beginning of 2020, it would have raised several eyebrows. Our working days prior to the pandemic were often filled with face-to-face meetings. In post-pandemic days, even with people going back into...

A short list of the companies that have suffered recent API-related breaches are a who’s-who of the global technology brain trust: Microsoft, Venmo, Equifax, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, and many others. If even these tech-savvy organizations are subject to cyberattack, the reality couldn’t...

The cybersecurity threat landscape in the first quarter of 2022 represented a mix bag of old enemies and new foes. New actors dominated the DDoS threat landscape while application security faced tried-and-true attack vectors. These attacks were largely driven by a threat landscape turbocharged...

The cloud represents a gamechanger in the way businesses access and use technology, but it’s also brought with it major implementation challenges. The most fundamental of these is simply that the cloud comprises multiple services and platforms, which has made integration a critical piece in the cloud...

As more businesses migrate critical resources and applications to the public cloud, attackers are adapting their tactics and techniques to match the scale of public cloud providers. Last week, this trend played out as reality for one of the world’s largest service providers when it was hit by a...

Managing applications as well as the network and compute infrastructure around them used to be easy. Everything sat in a private datacenter and there weren’t that many applications to begin with. But with the adoption of the hybrid cloud, applications now run in multiple private and public...

It’s May 2020 and a large European electronic goods retailer realizes its bot problem is going from bad to worse. In a single week, its online store is hit with eight million bot visits to systematically scrape pricing and product information without authorization —...

Most organizations today deploy web applications across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. However, existing models for application security are obsolete and no longer up to the task of providing high-grade, consistent, and frictionless application security across clouds