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BeyondTrust: privilege, vulnerability management available through Azure

April 7, 2017/in Mobile Security

Users of Azure cloud services have a new option for stopping the misuse of privileges as well as managing vulnerabilities through an alliance with BeyondTrust.

Azure customers who buy BeyondTrust licenses can host PowerBroker, the company’s privileged access management (PAM) and its vulnerability management (VM) platform, Retina, in their Azure cloud instances.

They can host BeyondSaaS perimeter vulnerability scanning in Azure as well. Both are available via the Azure Marketplace.

These new services give BeyondTrust customers a third option for how they deploy PAM and VM. Before they could extend a local instance of BeyondTrust’s security to the Azure cloud via software connectors or deploy it within the cloud using software agents deployed on virtual machines there.

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Google Cloud Key Management Service could help more enterprises encrypt data

January 13, 2017/in Computer Security

Attackers are increasingly able to penetrate perimeter defenses, compromise accounts and mine data without targets even being aware of the attack, as the Democratic National Committee breach proved. Encrypting data is the best defense.

Strong encryption of complex data structures requires a Key Management System (KMS). But implementing a KMS can be challenging, especially for enterprises below the security poverty line that don’t have the budget to hire a multidisciplinary security team. Google may have a solution with its Cloud Key Management Service (CKMS) now in beta in select countries.

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