Eighty-five percent of security experts surveyed during a recent Black Hat event agreed that an individual's data and/or credentials are likely to be available to cybercriminals online regardless of how careful they are with security practices.

After last month’s AWS re:Inforce cybersecurity review, this week’s Breaking Analysis examines “What Black Hat reveals about securing the supercloud.” Analyst Dave Vellante presents major themes and key takeaways from the event, which “exposes all the warts of cybersecurity and openly discusses its hard truths.”

Cybersecurity's hard truths

Permanent changes to cyberdefense have been brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Vellante discusses these along with the perennial problems of exposure due to employee behaviors and the cyber skills gap. “Bad user behavior will trump good security technology every time,” Vellante stated, sharing data from the Black Hat and Dark Reading survey.

Since re:Inforce, Vellante has created a model for new organizational layers within cloud that build a trust framework for security, with cloud as the first line of defense. This week he reviews this model considering information from Black Hat, before concluding with a discussion on security in the supercloud, using quotes from expert participants in theCUBE’s Supercloud22 event. 

That “the cloud providers should lead with the security vendor ecosystem playing a supporting role,” is one consensus. But “can you see AWS, Azure and Google in a kumbaya moment getting together to make that happen and harmonize security standards?” Vellante asks.

Check out Vellante’s full report, and catch up with the entire Breaking Analysis column on SiliconANGLE and Wikibon. You can also watch Dave’s analysis on YouTube or listen as a podcast.
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In security news this past week, theCUBE reported on securing the supercloud with interviews from Howie Xu of Zscaler, In Sik Rhee of Vertex Ventures, Priya Rajagopal of Couchbase, Ramesh Prabagaran of Prosimo.io, and Steve Mullaney of Aviatrix Systems, to name a few. We also provided previews of upcoming cybersecurity focused events and gave a recap of Black Hat 2022 and our own Supercloud22 event.

From coverage of major security conferences such as AWS re:Invent, Red Hat Summit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and RSA to numerous exclusive security-focused events, including Wasabi Secure Storage Hot Takes, Manage Risk With the Armis Platform, Zebrium Root Cause as a Service, Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II and our AWS Startup Showcase series, theCUBE is the place to find breaking security news and products.

Follow breaking security news daily, or catch up with past events with our article archive and on-demand replays.

On Sept. 7, the AWS Startup Showcase is back with Season 2, Episode 4 of the ongoing collaborative series presented exclusively by theCUBE and AWS. This episode will focus on “Cybersecurity – Detect and Protect Against Threats,” and theCUBE will talk with top-performing startups in the AWS Partner ecosystem to share their stories and discuss their solutions.

Speakers & Guests

During the event, Illumio, JumpCloud and Sonrai will be showcasing their identity and zero-trust products, while the latest advances in API protection will be demonstrated by Anitian, Cequence Security and NoName Security.

Hunters.ai and Horizon3.ai will showcase how they use advances in AI and machine learning to increase security resilience, and SecurityScorecard will demonstrate how it evaluates a company’s security stance using a point system that gathers data from public and private sources. 

AWS Security VP Jon Ramsey will welcome attendees during the opening session, and the event will wrap with an AWS Heroes panel.

Discover more in our Reader’s Guide, and register today to attend the event and become a part of the Showcase Community. 
What to expect: Startup Showcase cybersecurity edition

On Sept. 7, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio theCUBE will explore cybersecurity in-depth with interviews featuring top AWS security partners during the AWS Startup Showcase: “Cybersecurity — Detect and Protect Against Threats” event.

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