Entries from 2014-09-22 to 1 day

Dyre Straits: Millions of Cloud Users Vulnerable to New Trojan

A powerful new strain of malware called Dyre (or Dyreza) not only poses a serious threat to consumers and businesses, it also signifies the cloud has arrived. Dyre not only uses the cloud as a vector for distributing malware to client mach…

Skyhigh Teams with Palo Alto Networks to Extend Next-Gen Firewall to the Cloud – and More

As part of our mission to help organizations securely enable cloud services, we’ve expanded our range of partnerships beyond cloud service providers to include security solution providers. These strategic partnerships enable joint customer…

Only 1 in 100 Cloud Providers Meet Proposed EU Data Protection Requirements

Whether your organization is based in Europe, has operations in Europe, or handles data pertaining to EU residents, a proposed EU regulation in the works will have a significant impact on which cloud security services you use and how you u…

Skyhigh Networks and SafeNet Team Up on Encryption Key Management

More and more organizations have been asking to encrypt their data in business-critical SaaS applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Office 365 with customer-managed keys to ensure compliance and provide additional data …

Skyhigh and Google Drive for Work

Google recently announced a new version of its popular file-sharing service, Google Drive for Work, that lets enterprise users securely collaborate in the cloud. This new offering builds on the success of Google Drive in the consumer world…

Skyhigh 1st Cloud Access Security Broker to be ISO 27001 Certified

One of the most robust certifications a cloud security service provider can attain is ISO 27001 certification. Attaining ISO certification is is a reflection of the company’s commitment to security across multiple functions, and a reflecti…

Point-in-Time Cloud Usage Data Can Be Deceiving

A Telling StoryA customer recently shared an interesting story with us. They told us that they were monitoring the growth in cloud service usage over time and saw some interesting patterns that we could share with our readers. They reporte…

Just What the Doctor Ordered: A Prescription for Cloud Data Security for Healthcare Service Providers

Cloud services are here to stay, and practically everybody is embracing them. In fact, the cloud computing industry is growing at the torrid pace of nearly 30% per year right now, according to Pike Research.Certainly healthcare service pro…

The Network Meets the Cloud

It was sixteen years back that I was staring at a Cisco router prompt and trying to grapple with the difference between a startup configuration and a running configuration. Things have come a long way and there have been tectonic shifts in…