CISA urges businesses to level up defenses with logging, backups, and encryption

CISA urges businesses to level up defenses with logging, backups, and encryption

CISA highlights four practical controls for businesses: use logging on business systems, back up business data, encrypt business data, and share cyber incident information with CISA. These measures are framed as straightforward steps to improve detection, recovery, and response.

TITEL: CISA says strong passwords, MFA, software updates, and phishing awareness are core cybersecurity essentials
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/four-cybersecurity-essentials-businesses
SAMENVATTING: CISA identifies four basics for businesses: train employees to avoid phishing, require strong passwords, require multifactor authentication, and update business software. The guidance emphasizes reducing common attack paths through simple, widely applicable controls.

TITEL: Microsoft Azure remains one of the top enterprise cloud platforms, with continued growth in adoption
URL: https://www.flexera.com/blog/finops/cloud-computing-trends-flexera-2024-state-of-the-cloud-report/
SAMENVATTING: Flexera’s cloud trend reporting says adoption continues to grow for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with Azure used for significant workloads by a large share of respondents. The report also points to FinOps as an increasingly important practice for cloud cost control.

TITEL: Enterprise cloud strategy is shifting toward AI-optimized hybrid cloud architectures
URL: https://www.cio.com/article/4026759/7-enterprise-cloud-strategy-trends-shaking-up-it-today.html
SAMENVATTING: CIO reports that AI-optimized hybrid cloud architectures are a defining trend, with strong emphasis on AI/ML-driven cloud workloads and multicloud optimization. The article reflects how enterprise cloud strategy is being reshaped by AI infrastructure demands.

TITEL: Cloud computing trends increasingly center on AI-native platforms and generative AI workloads
URL: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/category/cloud-computing/
SAMENVATTING: Forrester says the industry is moving beyond commodity infrastructure toward cloud platforms built for generative AI and agentic AI. This supports a broader enterprise shift toward cloud services designed specifically for AI use cases.

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/level-your-defenses-four-cybersecurity-best-practices-businesses