As an employer, it can be difficult to gauge the hands-on experience of potential cybersecurity hires. Yes, they come with the right degrees and the right certifications, but can they do what you are hiring them to do? How can you assess their hands-on capabilities? Eric Basu and his company, Haiku, Inc., created World of Haiku to help bridge the gap between employers and aspiring cybersecurity professionals. We talk to him this week to learn how the game came about, the difference between gamified training and games that train, and future plans for the game.

Are you aware that your favorite websites actually store information in your browser? Find out what information is stored and see how that can be misused in this blog.

Suppose you frequently download Compliance Reports in Warden for review with your management, auditor, or other stakeholders. Horangi Warden’s new improvement will make this process faster and easier for you. This new feature will let you produce a well-designed compliance report in PDF format, without any reformatting or touch-up required. Read more below!

As your cloud assets grow in size, it is vital to manage them with a systematic identification process - which is why a lot of organizations have an asset tagging strategy in place to keep important resources in check. Warden now lets users identify, search and filter with cloud tags so that you can manage your assets in Warden more efficiently. Read more below.

Dan Lohrmann, award-winning CISO, keynote speaker, mentor, columnist, and bestselling co-author of the book Cyber Mayday and the Day After joins us this week to talk about cybersecurity roles in the public and private sectors, checklists for dealing with disruptions to your business, what organizations can learn from breaches, and much more including a lesson from a blackout on how tabletop exercises should be conducted.

Being prime targets for cyber attacks because of the high volume of personal information and financial assets, financial institutions experience more breaches while costs continue to rise. Securing your data on the cloud is vital to business and might save you from potential financial loss. Read on to know about top threats that can put your company’s assets at risk and best practices that can make a positive impact on your cloud security.

Horangi is a CREST-accredited SaaS company based in Singapore. With our product Warden, a multi-cloud security solution, Horangi has been listed as a Sample Vendor in the Emerging Technologies & Trends Impact on Products and Services published by Gartner in July 2022.

Never lose sight of your most important assets in the infrastructure with this exciting new update in Warden Threat Detection. You can now flag and segregate assets based on their criticality from the most critical to high, medium, and low priority. You can also get contextual alerts to identify and prioritize 24/7 monitoring, fixing them first before the attackers have a chance to compromise any of your critical assets. Read more below on how to get started with this.

Many talk about the importance of complete threat prevention, but ultimately, there is always a need for threat detection in all areas of your organization, whether it is over your endpoints or IT infrastructure. Read this article to find out the top reasons why.

Horangi Warden was built with a vision to make cloud security achievable with ease and help organizations of any scale and size to innovate without fear. With a customer-centric approach at its core, Warden’s team has been working tirelessly to build and constantly improve the product and cater to all their customers' use cases. And this G2 mention in the summer report 2022 as a ‘Leader’ in the Cloud Security category, is a testament to all the hard work that Horangi has been putting in. Read the full report here.

It won’t be correct to say that you can stay 100% protected and never get breached. But we can say with certainty that we can help you protect cloud infrastructure seamlessly, with a 24/7 monitoring tool like Warden. Warden can help you detect threats in real-time, to quickly identify attacks or any suspicious activity and respond faster before it causes any damage. Read more below as we add another feather to our growing multi-cloud support with real-time threat detection recently released for Huawei Cloud.

Time is of the essence when you have just about two years to comply with the new PCI DSS 4.0 standard by 21 March 2024. Whether you are starting from scratch or updating your compliance from the current PCI DSS v3.2.1, read on to find out how your organization can use Warden's Compliance Automation to comply with PCI DSS v4.0 faster and with less pain.

We understand that every business has different compliance needs. With this feature, you don’t have to force a square peg into a round hole. You define the benchmark that matters to your organization, and let Warden monitor your cloud environment based on that custom standard. Read more below.

Many security leaders refer to Gartner's Magic Quadrant to decide on which security tool to purchase and deploy to secure their environments. The question then is whether it's good enough to just look at the quadrant the tool is in to guide your decision. What other factors should you consider?

The significant shift in adoption of cloud computing and the related risks that this is introducing is driving increasing interest toward controls that specialize on the unique cloud-based requirements. In this article we help you understand about these acronyms in detail and what each of them have to offer. Read more about CASB, CSPM, CWPP, and CNAPP below.

Gaining visibility into resources and policies is essential for a robust Cloud Security strategy. Read more on how Warden IAM Asset Inventory provides one place to easily see an aggregated view- to monitor and analyze and understand all assets across your multi-cloud setup.

Getting breached is a nightmare, and organizations that prioritize cloud security put smart people and tools to work 24/7 as a defensive barrier against malicious attackers. But security is an ongoing process—not a guarantee. What can you do then? You can build your knowledge base and your security arsenal with the right tools and an effective strategy for threat detection and response. Learn more below.

Surprise, surprise! A passion for cybersecurity is not even on the list of top 5 qualities for success in tomorrow's cybersecurity industry. Find out what employers are actually looking for today from Emil Tan, COO at Red Alpha and Founder of Infosec In The City.

Your security team might be using multiple channels to communicate and flag findings that your cloud security tool, a CSPM like Warden, alerts them about. This can lead to alert fatigue, and your team might feel lost in a pool of distributed notifications. Read more below on how you can consolidate these findings to increase your team’s efficiency.

Startups cannot afford to make the mistake of thinking of cybersecurity as an afterthought. Having a healthy, business-enabling cybersecurity posture from day one can be a daunting task given the limited budgetary and manpower resources, but not an impossible goal. How, then, can startups achieve that?

Horangi identified excessive access and control permissions as a key cybersecurity risk amid the region’s move to cloud. Left unaddressed, this could raise the likelihood of compromised credentials, enabling threat actors to access the organisation’s network and set the stage for a ransomware attack.

The risk of account takeovers and credential compromise in the proliferation of human and machine identities today is clear as day. How much visbility is enough for security teams in order to properly manage these risks even as employees continuously onboard and offboard? Tune in to the conversation around access control security automation with Gill Langston, Senior Product Manager, MSP at JumpCloud.

Despite security being a key benefit of cloud adoption, we’ve ended up with a lack of confidence in managing threats, and increasing cybersecurity incidents. While talent shortage and team misalignment have prevented companies from making the journey to the cloud, there is another key barrier to cloud migration- security. Read more below.

In a dynamic business setup, managing a large number of privileged users with access to an ever-expanding set of identities and permissions is challenging. Managing separate IAM roles and groups for these users and resources adds yet another layer of complexity. Here's how you can enforce PoLP with ease. Read more!

Recently, Paul Hadjy, CEO & Co-founder of Horangi was interviewed by CyberNews. Read below as he shares insights on emerging cybersecurity tends, evolving cloud security market in Asia and beyond, and what the future holds for Horangi.