Cloud Security

The Seattle woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.’s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100 million Americans also broke into servers of more than 30 other companies, the U.S. said in a request to keep her...

“It’s a full-on war for cyber talent,” said Matt Comyns, a managing partner at executive search firm Caldwell Partners who specializes in information security. “CEOs know that, so they play hardball. Everyone’s throwing money at this.”

Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The cloud is faster. And the cloud is far more secure. Then a hacker got into their cloud.

“Hello there,” the email said, according to federal prosecutors. “There appears to be some leaked s3 data of yours in someone’s github/gist.” A link was provided to an account at GitHub, a company that allows users to manage and store project...

Symantec makes improvements to its Cloud Access Security Solution to better secure access in the cloud.

GRA Quantum turns to Allure Security for help addressing the lack of governance, auditing and logging when it comes to cloud computing.

The new AWS security conference brought together experts across the industry to reflect on challenges and best practices in securing public and multi-cloud environments.