If Zero Trust, flexible deployments, customer service, or simplifying your journey to the cloud matter to you, there are 10 things you may not know about Symantec – but you should.The security landscape continues to evolve at a blistering pace, and there are so many great things going on with Symantec, it’s sometimes hard to keep track. Meanwhile, what you may have heard from the newest kids on the block is often meant to seed fea...

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform combined currently hold a bit over 50% of the worldwide cloud market. But what about the other half? Large corporations with a global presence or a local enterprise might find that a niche cloud provider better meets their needs. Alibaba Cloud's, IBM Cloud's, and Oracle Cloud's market share are not that far behind GCP, and you might find yourself on one of these platforms while yo...

It’s well-documented and often discussed that diverse teams lead to better, more profitable outcomes, and the last couple years have seen a surge in long-overdue dialogue about the importance of equity, inclusion, and belonging. Much of this dialogue has focused on gender equity and including/amplifying voices of the BIPOC* community in cybersecurity. With this Summit, we turn our attention to the unique strengths, experiences, and chall...

Stay Informed with What's Next in Cloud SecurityCloud-based services are becoming increasingly more attractive to organizations as they offer cost savings, flexibility, and increased operational efficiency. However, protecting systems, applications, and data in the cloud presents a new set of challenges for organizations to overcome. Security teams need to adapt and learn how to utilize the tools, controls, and design models needed to properly...

The state of cloud security is evolving. Many organizations are implementing new and more advanced cloud security services that offer cloud-focused controls and capabilities, including services and tools that provide network connectivity and security for end users and office locations, security monitoring and policy controls, and identity services, among others. The SANS 2022 Cloud Security Survey explores the types of services organizations a...

Our 2022 Survey on infrastructure operations is designed to explore how organizations are utilizing cloud-native applications and integrating those applications within their security monitoring and response capabilities. We continue to see growth of adopting of cloud-native applications, but larger issues always remain. As we adopt and utilize more and more cloud-native applications, is the security team able to keep up with newer forms of tel...

Security professionals are starting to rethink their approach to access control and monitoring for user activity. Today, many traditional static network segmentation and access controls are not capable of keeping pace with remote workers and cloud access scenarios. Zero trust is a model where data and application behavior are the central focus points of all isolation and segmentation tactics, and all users and assets in an IT operating enviro...

Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) often operate with limited security budgets. Consequently, they need to take advantage of any built-in security features of programs they already use to maximize their protections. In this webcast, SANS Senior Instructor Jake Williams and a representative from Microsoft look at the core security features in the operating systems of Windows 11 and their potential benefit to SMBs. They will explore: how the plat...

Let's take a moment to break down a few things at a basic level: What is the cloud? How does it work? How do you begin to secure it? This webcast is for you if: You are just starting out in cloud More of your duties are shifting to the cloud You simply want to have a better understanding of what the cloud is and how cloud security works

Over the past few years, we have seen drastic, but welcome, changes in how organizations manage their own software and code. Organizations are embracing security at the code level, encouraging developers and security teams to work closely together. Giving way to the term “DevSecOps”, developers now integrate automated processes to build and ship code, streamline the development cycle, and ship code more securely. However, cyber adv...