
Sunshine On A Cloudy Day
Vendors have spent 2019 monitoring policies and maintaining compliance in the public cloud, facilitating the secure migration of data and applications to the cloud, and correlating threat activity and intelligence that affects cloud users.
Credential theft in the cloud has been a major area of focus in 2019, with advancements around detecting cybercriminals attempting to access businesses from Microsoft Office 365 hacked accounts. Vendors have also focused on having end users flag false positives during the incident remediation process to reduce the burden on Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.
Six of the 10 hottest cloud security tools of 2019 came from companies based in Silicon Valley, three came from companies based abroad, and one came from a company based in Texas. Read on to learn about how vendors have gone about increasing the ease and effectiveness of safeguarding cloud applications and workloads.