How Pizza Can Be the Recipe to Understand Cloud Security

By Yohanan BerrosPosted on May 10, 2020June 24, 2020Cat BlogLeave a comment

It's not always easy to wrap your mind around the various layers of cloud security and how they differ from conventional on-premises computing. Fortunately, we've formulated a simple (and delicious) metaphor for your consumption: A pizza dinner. First, think of conventional on-premises computing as the "at home" version of a pizza dinner. You manage the… Read More »

Top 5 Hybrid Cloud Security Breaches in 5 Years

By John MacintoshPosted on April 13, 2020June 24, 2020Cat BlogLeave a comment

Julius Caesar famously said, "Experience is the best teacher." Yet no organization wants to learn by experience when it comes to cloud security breaches. Instead, it's better to learn from the examples of other organizations that have endured their own cloud data breach incidents. Over the past few years, there has been no shortage of high-profile… Read More »

Having Fun With Cloud Services

By Yaron ShaniPosted on February 5, 2020Cat Technical BlogLeave a comment

Over the last decade, the use of public cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) has grown dramatically. More and more companies are migrating on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. However, the fact that cloud provider application programming interfaces (APIs) are also easily accessible via the internet has opened a new window… Read More »

Gain Full Visibility into Potential Attacks Across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Environments

By Raz KotlerPosted on January 26, 2020June 24, 2020Cat BlogLeave a comment

The AWS Security Challenge Consider all the components required to build a successful AWS infrastructure: virtual machines, databases, connections to multiple services, as well as security roles and policies. There are many opportunities to make mistakes or misconﬁgure accounts and permissions. The result might expose your critical data to a wide audience outside your network.… Read More »

Why Breach and Attack Simulations Are the Keys to a Secure Cloud

By Gus EvangelakosPosted on December 16, 2019Cat BlogLeave a comment

Many of today’s businesses are compelled to migrate to the cloud on an accelerated timeline. Unfortunately, this business mandate often forces teams to push forward without fully working through the security considerations. For a prominent example of this phenomenon, look no further than Amazon Web Services (AWS). When firms begin building their infrastructure in AWS,… Read More »

XM Cyber at Black Hat Europe 2019: New Approach to Attacking Cloud Infrastructure

By Marcus GilbanPosted on December 9, 2019Cat BlogLeave a comment

Public cloud infrastructure presents security teams with a new invisible management layer, creating new security challenges that demand better understanding. Failure to grapple with such challenges created by this hidden layer of cloud identity and access management is creating profound risk for today's organizations. In a talk for Black Hat Europe 2019 ("Inside Out: The Cloud… Read More »

Join XM Cyber at Black Hat Europe 2019

By XM Cyber TeamPosted on November 18, 2019Cat BlogLeave a comment

XM Cyber is ready to welcome the brightest professionals and researchers in the cyber industry at Black Hat Europe 2019, in London, on December 2-5. “We will showcase our HaXM breach and attack simulation platform that helps protect an organization’s critical assets from cyber attackers. We are the only ones to address the only crucial question… Read More »