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    Cloud Storage Security Names Steven Hess Chief Executive Officer

    August 29, 2023 – Cloud Storage Security (CSS), a leading provider of data security solutions for AWS storage, today announced the appointment of Steven Hess as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

    AI Generated Malware can Infiltrate even the Most Secure Organizations. Learn how to stop it here.
    What You Need To Know About AI-Generated Malware (And How to Stop It)

    In recent months, the release of applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT have caused a global spike in the popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. As the value AI provides continues to be showcased and proven, IT industry leaders such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have invested large amounts of time and money into developing and integrating generative AI into their internal processes and offerings. While generative AI creates the opportunity to optimize business operations such as cloud computing, content creation, and even software development, the general availability of generative AI also makes it a tool with almost unlimited skills and knowledge accessible to anyone with an internet connection, including bad actors.

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    What's New: CSS Product Updates—July 2023

    Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy improvements to our antivirus and data classification platform: the addition of CrowdStrike's AI-powered malware scanning engine, Antivirus for Managed File Transfers, enhanced Amazon EventBridge support, and more.

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    What's New: CSS Product Updates—April 2023

    Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy improvements to Antivirus for Amazon S3 (AVS3) and Data Classification for Amazon S3 (DCS3): Event-based scanning for data classification, improved scanning performance, improved archive handling and more.

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    What's New: CSS Product Updates—Q1 '23

    Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy improvements to Antivirus for Amazon S3 (AVS3) and Data Classification for Amazon S3 (DCS3): AWS CloudTrail Lake integration, license mode switching, EC2 tagging, enhanced compressed file scanning, additional API scan file handling, and IdP support for GovCloud.

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    Cloud Storage Security Celebrates Three Years of Business

    In March of 2020, Cloud Storage Security (CSS) was founded in order to answer a complicated and often-asked question: "How can I ensure the security of the data I store in the cloud?" Three years later, CSS has scanned billions of files totaling petabytes of data, found over 30,000 pieces of malware, and brought peace of mind to hundreds of customers across the world through its malware detection, sensitive data discovery, and storage assessment offerings.

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    Data Intelligence for AWS Storage Environments

    Cloud Storage Security is excited to share that customers now have access to Storage Assessment functionality. Designed to enhance data intelligence, Storage Assessment answers questions like “How much data do I have?”, “In what regions is it located?”, “What encryption coverage do I have?” and “How many buckets are open to the public?” by providing the following data points:

    AWS and CSS Team Up to Deliver Integration for AWS CloudTrail Lake
    AWS and CSS Teamed to Deliver Integration for AWS CloudTrail Lake

    Antivirus and Data Classification provider enables customers to ingest events into AWS CloudTrail for security and compliance purposes January 31, 2023 – Today, data security software provider Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is among the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners to integrate with AWS CloudTrail Lake to consolidate activity data reporting. This is noteworthy as historically AWS CloudTrail did not ingest third party data; it logged data generated from AWS services. With this integration, customers can now ingest and analyze events in a CloudTrail-compatible schema from the CSS console to streamline auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting.

    Amazon S3 Automatic Encryption
    What You Need To Know About Amazon S3 Automatic Encryption

    On January 5, 2023, AWS automated server-side encryption for all new objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (SSE-S3). In this article, we review SSE-S3 (some features may surprise you), discuss how to assess encryption status (with and without help), and touch on how to encrypt existing objects in S3.

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