SecureCloudDB Blog

2020 will go down in infamy for many reasons, but as millions of people have struggled with a pandemic throughout the past year, organizations have had their own crises to deal with. With more activity in the cloud than ever before, data breaches have affected everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. In this four part series, we look back on notable breaches from 2020 and discuss how SecureCloudDB could have been employed as part of a layered defense strategy to alleviate, if not prevent, incidents like them.   

Part one covers the Estée Lauder breach that occurred at the beginning of 2020.

SecureCloudDB, an AWS Partner Network Select Technology Partner (APN Partner), now offers its cloud-native database security application in AWS Marketplace. This expanded relationship with Amazon Web Services makes it even easier for organizations to perform Database Activity Monitoring while gaining complete security and compliance assurance for their cloud databases.

Many employers have been relying on biometric data in an effort to ensure the safety of employees and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, organizations need to balance protecting against exposure to the infectious disease with ensuring authorized access to and use of biometric data.

A significant portion of IT infrastructure has moved from proprietary data centers into public clouds. According to Gartner, 80% of enterprises will eliminate their traditional data centers by 2025. What does this mean for database security? How can organizations best protect their crown jewels — the data stored in cloud databases?

In order to implement strong security tailored for the public cloud and better lock down databases, organizations need to understand network access in the cloud.  

In on-premises data centers, organizations are responsible for everything from making sure no one steals the server or hard drive to making sure the operating system and routers are set up properly and data protection security measures are in place. 

As managing the risk of cyber incidents and breaches becomes more challenging and as attacks become more diverse, it is imperative that cybersecurity adapts and creates better ways to protect data and organizations from threats.