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On July 3rd, at 10:00 AM EST, a malicious hotfix was released and pushed by Kaseya VSA servers that propagated to servers managed by Kaseya, resulting in the compromise and encryption of thousands of nodes at hundreds of different businesses.

Ransomware in the News Before we get to the major ransomware attack that occurred over the holiday weekend, let’s take a look at some of the other stories from the past week.

Data security is a practice and methodology designed to prevent data breaches and protect sensitive information from malicious actors. Data security is also instrumental in complying with regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, and ITAR.

Are you interested in learning about the tool that helps to automate and manage the complete software development lifecycle? Well, Azure DevOps is the answer for you, but before we dive deeper into understanding what Azure DevOps is and how it helps the teams during product development and release, let’s first try to build our understanding on DevOps.

3.86 Million Dollars. That is the approximate cost of a data breach on any business worldwide in 2020. The number increases to 8.64 million dollars in expenses in the United States alone. Let us add that it takes an average of 228 days in 2020 to identify a breach event. These statistics alone can give any customer-facing business sleepless nights, and regulatory agencies worldwide can exert punitive action for any business not being scrupulous enough in their data security. The amount of money spent on data security and protection has continued to rise in the last three years, with a bulk of the IT budget spent on cloud and data security in 2020. Customer data platforms like Salesforce command the lion’s share of these customer data sets. So it follows that these businesses spend a bulk of their resources for Salesforce data security and protection every year.

Are you tired of clicking around the Azure portal creating virtual machines, storage accounts, and app services? Do you need a reliable method of creating the same environment multiple times? It sounds like you need to write some ARM templates!

Varonis introduced an exciting new cloud-hosted solution that brings our data-centric security approach to AWS, Box, GitHub, Google Drive, Jira, Okta, Salesforce, Slack, and Zoom!

Ransomware in the News If you’re a small or medium business using locally hosted cloud storage drives by a popular brand you need to disconnect them from the internet immediately. Due to a flaw hackers have been able to delete all the contents of the hard drives remotely. And now attackers are try to monetize it with ransomware.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools are an essential part of a modern enterprise’s information security program, but careful planning and implementation are required in order to get the most from a SIEM solution. In this blog post, we’ll look at what a SIEM tool can deliver for customers, how to get the most out of your SIEM deployment, and how Varonis can complement your SIEM tools.

Are you deploying resources to Azure and trying to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates? Are you finding the JSON syntax confusing? Microsoft heard the criticism and introduced a new infrastructure as a code project called Azure Bicep.

Modern networking equipment is capable of processing billions of packets every second, but most of that work happens behind the scenes. Network Flow Monitoring, also known as packet sampling, aims to give network engineers some visibility into the vast amounts of traffic that cross our wired and wireless connections every day. In this blog post, we’ll explore what network flow monitoring is and how it’s used to keep traffic flowing smoothly and securely. We’ll also look at three of the most popular flow monitoring technologies.

Are you ready to move your data center to the cloud? You might be planning for things like identity, governance, and security, but one major topic is networking. How are you going to connect to the resources in the cloud? You’re going to need Azure Virtual Networks!