Cloud Encryption & Data Privacy

Combating online meeting fraud and deception

David Thomas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:43:13 +0000

In many organisations, online meetings have taken the place of many gatherings that previously would have taken place in-person. The enforced home-working of the COVID epidemic kick-started the trend, and many now turn to an online platform to collaborate, interview, exchange ideas, and even socialise with colleagues in professional contexts. A new collaboration between cybersecurity […]

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New Google Cloud tool fights future quantum attacks

Muhammad Zulhusni — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Google Cloud has added new post-quantum encryption options to its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS). The update is currently in preview and introduces support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) – a form of encryption built to resist attacks from cryptographically relevant quantum computers. Cloud KMS is a managed service that lets users create, use, […]

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Apple scraps data protection tool for UK customers

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:11:50 +0000

Apple has pulled the plug on its highest level data security tool in the UK, with it confirming that the encryption of UK customer data stored on its cloud storage service, iCloud, has come to an end. The move follows a row between the American tech firm and the UK Government, which has demanded to […]

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Next-generation secure, defined internet with SCION architecture

CloudTech News — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:31:00 +0000

The internet was built in more simple, innocent times and was seized on by a curious mixture of visionaries, educators, academics and technology geeks as a way to democratise the distribution of information. Decades later, the protocols that govern this interconnected network of private networks remain much the same, but the makeup of the inhabitants […]

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Bernard Montel, Tenable: Navigating the latest cybersecurity trends

Ryan Daws — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:34:03 +0000

As organisations worldwide continue to grapple with an ever-expanding threat landscape, understanding the latest cybersecurity trends has never been more crucial. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, Bernard Montel, EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist at Tenable, shed light on the shifts in cybersecurity over the past five years and offers valuable insights […]

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Rick Mur, GNX: Ensuring secure and seamless global connectivity

Ryan Daws — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:47:06 +0000

As businesses increasingly rely on cloud technologies, ensuring secure and efficient global connectivity is paramount. GNX, a provider of global internet and private connectivity solutions, is addressing this challenge head-on. Ahead of Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe, CloudTech caught up with Rick Mur, Co-Founder & CTO of GNX, to discuss the evolving landscape of […]

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Delinea acquires Authomize to strengthen access management

Duncan MacRae — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:26:41 +0000

Delinea, a provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), has acquired Authomize, an innovator in the detection and elimination of identity-based threats across the cloud. The continuous discovery and visibility capabilities of Authomize, married with Delinea’s industry-leading SaaS solutions for PAM, will extend the Delinea Platform’s reach for comprehensive privileged controls in […]

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Next generation of phishing attacks uses unexpected delivery methods to steal data

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:40:59 +0000

Netskope, a specialist in secure access service edge (SASE), has unveiled new research that shows how the prevalence of cloud applications is changing the way threat actors are using phishing attack delivery methods to steal data. The Netskope Cloud and Threat Report: Phishing details trends in phishing delivery methods such as fake login pages and […]

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Andrew Egoroff, ProcessUnity: On the increased cybersecurity threat and mitigating risks

Ryan Daws — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:53:45 +0000

Cloud Tech caught up with Andrew Egoroff, Senior Cybersecurity Specialist at ProcessUnity, to discuss the increased threat around the Russia-Ukraine crisis and how to mitigate risks from third parties. A business can implement excellent internal cybersecurity measures, but a slip-up from a third-party vendor can have devastating consequences. ProcessUnity specialises in helping businesses determine what […]

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EU body to investigate public sector usage of cloud services

Fin Strathern — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:26:15 +0000

The EU’s privacy watchdog, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), has launched joint investigations with 22 national regulators into public sector usage of cloud services. More than 80 public bodies from across the European Economic Area (EEA) will be investigated, covering sectors from health and education to tax and finance, to ensure compliance with privacy […]

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Breaking through the cloud security skills gap

Vince Hwang — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0000

With the proliferation of remote workers over the past eighteen months, companies have had to rely on cloud-based applications to ensure they remained in business. The recent Application Security Report from Fortinet and Cybersecurity Insiders found that 48% of respondents had more than 100 unique applications running in their environment, whilst 26% reported using more […]

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EU privacy body investigates use of American cloud services

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:47:00 +0000

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has launched an investigation into the use of cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft under Cloud II contracts by European Union (EU) institutions, bodies and agencies (EUIs). It has also begun looking at the use of Microsoft Office 365 by the European Commission. These investigations […]

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