Cloud Security Podcast

Cloud Security News this week - 1 Sep, 2021 Last Thursday, on the 26th of August 2021 - Microsoft warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies. that hackers could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases. This is due to a vulnerability in the Jupyter Notebook Feature in Microsoft Azure's flagship Cosmos  database. Microsoft cannot change those keys by itself, it emailed the customers Thursday telling them to create new ones. AWS has announced the release of AWS Backup Audit Manager a new feature that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies. AWS claims that it provides built-in compliance controls and allows you to customize those controls to define your data protection policies.  Google Cloud has recently released on demand vulnerability scanning. Google claims that this will allow checking for vulnerabilities earlier in development. This new feature checks for vulnerabilities both in locally stored container images and images stored within GCP registries. A $2000 bug bounty has been claimed by researcher Robert Heaton, who was able to find a  vulnerability in Bumble, a dating app which has more than 100 million users worldwide. By learning how Bumble's application programming interface (API) works the researchers found a way to pinpoint users' exact location, bypassing the safeguards in the app designed to prevent this. Lacework, a data driven security platform has released their quarterly cloud threat report. The report stated that Last year alone, cybercrime and ransomware attacks cost companies $4 billion in damages. They identified a rising demand for access to cloud accounts along with  continued increases in scanning and probing of storage buckets, databases, orchestration systems, and interactive logins.  Follow us on @CloudSecPod You may also like Cloud Security Podcast

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Igor Rincon (@igor.rincon) creator of Ultimate Hacking Championship (@HackingEsports) & one of the host of UHC - Magno Logan (@magnologan). Link to Magno's Kubernetes Security Challenge walkthrough Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Twitter:  Igor Rincon (@igor.rincon), Magno Logan (@magnologan) Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast - Cloud Security Academy

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Karthik Prabhakar (@worldhopper) is an Advisor to AccuKnox (@AccuKnox). Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Linkedin:  Karthik Prabhakar (@worldhopper) Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy

Cloud Security News this week - 25 Aug, 2021 AWS is launching a new partner competency for managed security service providers (MSSPs) which will make their cloud software solutions and services available in the AWS Marketplace. AWS are coining this an industry first + designed to help partners differentiate themselves in a crowded security market Default Permissions on Microsoft Power Apps, a cloud-hosted suite of services that allows organizations to create business intelligence applications has exposed 38 million records. This was discovered by an upguard analyst that  Open data protocol  API is enabled by default  AWS Cancelled re:Inforce Security Conference In Houston Due To COVID-19 and held, A scaled-down, free version of the event was held virtually on Aug. 24 Microsoft has protested a  $10B NSA Cloud Contract Awarded To AWS. A google cloud news a bit closer to home, Google's newest cloud region, in Melbourne, Australia, which launched just a month ago on 25 July. went down for 1 hour and 30 minutes due to 'transient voltage' issues that rebooted network hardware. Follow us on @CloudSecPod You may also like Cloud Security Podcast

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with John Kinsella (@johnlkinsella) is a Cloud Native Contributor, co-host of Security Weekly and CTO of CySense. Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Linkedin:  John Kinsella (@johnlkinsella) Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Colby Funnel (Linkedin - @Colby) is a Development Manager at Atlassian(@Atlassian). Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Linkedin:  Colby Funnel (Linkedin - @Colby) Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Omer Singer (Linkedin-Omer Singer) is the Head of Cyber Security Strategy at Snowflake - The Data Cloud (@SnowflakeDB). Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Linkedin:  Omer Singer (Linkedin-Omer Singer) Podcast Twitter - Cloud Security Podcast (@CloudSecPod) If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Ted Young (@tedsuo) is a contributor along with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure in the Observability eco-system. He is also the Director of Developer Education at LightStep (@LightStepHQ) Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy Host Twitter: @hashishrajan Guest Linkedin:  Ted Young (@tedsuo) Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Chris Hughes (Linkedin - Chris Hughes) & Dr. Nikki Robinson (Linkedin @dr-nikki-robinson) are the host of Resilient Cyber Podcast (@Resilient Cyber Podcast). Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy Host Twitter: @hashishrajan Guest Linkedin:  Chris Hughes (Linkedin - Chris Hughes) & Dr. Nikki Robinson (Linkedin @dr-nikki-robinson) Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Ely Khan (@elykahn) is the Principal Product Manager at AWS (@AWS). Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Cloud Security Academy: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/cloud-security-academy Host Twitter: @hashishrajan Guest Linkedin:  @elykahn Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our YouTube Channel: - Cloud Security Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudsecuritypodcast?sub_confirmation=1