Today, the word “cloud” is one of the most common words used in technology. What most users fail to realize is how frequently cloud infrastructures are used especially with all the basic user applications; email, social media, even posting a photo on Instagram. One of the basic uses of cloud computing is cloud based storage. Cloud based […]

At the end of February, Dow Jones was the latest major company to expose critical data stored in a public cloud. The organization failed to properly configure their Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution and their massive Dow Jones Watchlist dataset, a 4.4GB file, was left open to the public. The exposed files held approximately 2.4 […]

Today, few phrases strike fear into the hearts of companies quite like this one: data breach. Not only does a single incident harm an organization’s reputation – potentially costing them customers for years to come – but the sticker price is so massive some business can’t withstand the financial ramifications. In fact, one study showed […]