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Optiv Exec Julie Talbot-Hubbard On Securing Multi-Cloud Environments

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In the last year we’ve seen cloud migrations explode as companies rushed digital transformation projects to meet changing business demands brought on by the pandemic, and in many cases, at the expense of security.

Julie Talbot-Hubbard, senior vice president of Cyber Protection and Identity at Optiv, No. 26 on the 2020 CRN Solution Provider 500, talks about some of the challenges companies face in today’s COVID-driven digital workplace as companies work to secure their new digital footprint.

“If we look back to last May, last June, it was all hands on deck to really help our clients, working with our partners on how do we enable users to work remotely, store their data in the cloud, you know just work very mobile and agile,” said Talbot-Hubbard. “Now fast forward to where we are now… now we know that’s more of a permanent nature and we’re trying to make sure we have the right controls in place, the right visibility, the right technology, working with our partners to ensure organizations have compliance, all of that across [multi-cloud environments].”

Talbot-Hubbard told CRNtv, partners are also discovering a new problem: there are no effective tools for managing identities across multiple clouds.

“Now [organizations] are distributed across a hybrid-cloud environment, so their perimeter has changed,” which calls for a new cybersecurity strategy centered around identity and access management (IAM) said Talbot-Hubbard.

And why she’s calling on IAM technology vendors and cloud platform vendors to leverage partnerships, processes and technology across the cybersecurity life cycle “to be able to provide that full visibility and integration into identities and entitlements.”

“Think about today, it’s not just on human IDs, think about that machine element as well and how quickly we’re ramping up you know from a cloud infrastructure standability and tearing it down, all of those machines or infrastructure have an identity,” Talbot-Hubbard said. “And so ensuring that we’ve got the right technologies that can integrate with these cloud partners is going to be really critical to help clients and customers secure their environment.”

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Tripwire expands multi-cloud capabilities for Tripwire Configuration Manager

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Tripwire announced expanded multi-cloud capabilities for Tripwire Configuration Manager. Tripwire’s SaaS application now helps organizations effectively manage security across AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure and GCP (Google Cloud Platform), including greater data privacy management through storage configuration monitoring.

Tripwire Configuration Manager simplifies the monitoring, remediation, and automation of cloud account configurations for multi-cloud organizations through a single console.

Users can monitor and enforce secure configuration policies across a multi-cloud environment and determine where they stand against Center for Internet Security Foundations benchmarks.

Misconfigurations are a leading cause of data breaches and security incidents involving the cloud. Tripwire Configuration Manager helps ensure your cloud accounts are in a known and trusted state by enforcing security policies.

Its automated remediation feature will reset a configuration that is out of compliance to its previous state, ensuring user cloud accounts are configured correctly, and the services and workloads they host in the cloud are safe.

The updated service also enables storage monitoring and provides an in-depth view of storage configuration across multi-cloud accounts, making it easier to define public vs. private data.

Users can break down data privacy settings to address specific areas of concern, such as encryption, and enforce increased levels of privacy for more important data.

“As companies continue to expand operations into the cloud, they are left open to significant security, privacy, and regulatory threats, often caused by misconfigurations,” said Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire.

“Most teams have limited personnel to defend the network and need support to determine which problems are most pertinent. Secure configuration management is a basic but critical security practice to ensure gaps in security are realized and that companies are protected from devastating and costly impacts caused by cloud-related attacks.”

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IDG Contributor Network: Dome9 offers multi-cloud security, adds native support for Azure

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Dome9 Security, a cloud infrastructure security and compliance vendor, announced today that it is offering native support for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

This is interesting because until now, Dome9 had strongly pushed an Amazon Web Services (AWS) story. The reasons for that are clear: AWS is the 1,000-pound elephant when it comes to cloud infrastructure, greatly eclipsing all other vendors in terms of market share. But reliance on a single vendor is risky, and the number of third-party vendors at AWS’ recent re:Invent conference that looked uncomfortable at AWS announcements shows the folly of being completely tied to one platform.

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