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.

You can view these events virtually at the links below

Google Cloud Next 21

Kubecon

Google Cloud announced the launch of Google Cybersecurity Action Team, a group of experts from across Google that will form what they believe is the world’s premier security advisory team. The role of this team would be to shape security transformation — from roadmap and implementation, through to responding to a major incident, to engineering new solutions.
VMware also hosted their annual conference VMworld last week with a big focus on multicloud. They announced their strategy to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud services. VMware shared that the Cross-Cloud services will deliver three key advantages: an accelerated journey to the cloud, cost efficiency, flexibility and control across any cloud. You can find out more about this here and view VMworld on demand here
Amazon owned gaming service Twitch has suffered a huge data leak late last week, with more than 100 gigabytes of data, reportedly taken from 6000 internal Twitch GitHub repositories.The leak has exposed list of Twitch creator payments showing several top earners on the site earned close to $10 million. Some gamers caught up in the leak have verified that the payouts are accurate.
Wiz has become the fourth-most-valuable venture-backed cybersecurity company in the world, raising $250 million on a $6 billion valuation
Huawei Cloud has become 2nd largest in China and 5th largest in the world according to Gartner

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