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Mar 31, 2022
One Thing Missing From AWS Pi Day 2022
AWS celebrated 16 years since the launch of Amazon S3 with AWS Pi Day on March 14, 2022. Since the beginning of the year, some incredible announcements have been made including improvements to file integrity, the new Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class, general availability of AWS Backup, and much more. With over 200 trillion files being stored (that’s 29,000 files per person on earth) and more than 100 million requests per second for files, S3 is used now more than ever. However, there’s still one aspect of storage security that continues to be overlooked — the topic of antivirus scanning.
Cloud Storage Security
Mar 17, 2022
What's New: Antivirus for Amazon S3 Product Updates—March 2022
Cloud Storage Security is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following Antivirus for Amazon S3 updates: AWS Security Hub integration, what the actual file type that's being scanned is, plus more.
Cloud Storage Security
Mar 7, 2022
FBI and CISA Guidance on Destructive Malware
It is well known that malware can disrupt the availability of critical assets and data, impairing an organization’s ability to operate. It is key that organizations remain vigilant and defend against malware across all potential entry points. Recently, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint cybersecurity advisory to raise awareness regarding destructive malware and provide preventative recommendations.
Cloud Storage Security
Feb 15, 2022
What's New: Antivirus for Amazon S3 Product Updates—January 2022
Cloud Storage Security is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share some of the new features that we’ve added to Antivirus for Amazon S3 — Single Sign On (SSO), Load Balancer Improvement, XL File Scanning, and Scan on Access.
Cloud Storage Security
Feb 11, 2022
Cloud Storage Security Helps MindEdge Prevent Security Incident As They Prepare for SOC 2 Audit
Customer Challenge As a fast-growing learning management solution, MindEdge was receiving a growing number of questions from existing and potential customers about their security practices. MindEdge determined that the best route for elevating customer confidence was to achieve SOC 2 compliance. While preparing their roadmap for making their system and processes SOC 2 compliant, they found themselves in need of additional security controls to ensure that objects stored and shared from Amazon S3 buckets were scanned and clean from malware. The team identified three main requirements that needed to be met:
Cloud Storage Security
Feb 11, 2022
ADEC Innovations Guarantees Customers Malware-Free Reports
Customer Challenge ADEC Innovations hosts an application on AWS that collects environmental data, charts, and assets from public sources and aggregates these resources as elements in a pdf report for environmental professionals. The reports are stored in Amazon S3 buckets and delivered to customers via automated email. Occasionally, customers would report that the delivery of the file had been blocked by their firewall or that the local device’s endpoint solution warned the user of potential malicious code embedded in the report.
Cloud Storage Security
Jan 10, 2022
A&T Systems and Cloud Storage Security Announce Partnership
Newly formed alliance bridges cloud storage security gap for U.S. public sector organizations using Amazon S3 in the AWS Cloud
Cloud Storage Security
Jan 7, 2022
No File Left Behind
Does your organization manage extra large files via workflows using Amazon S3 that should be scanned for viruses or malware to meet compliance requirements and eliminate downstream risk but that can't be?
Cloud Storage Security
Dec 16, 2021
Workvivo Ensures Application Users are Free From Risk of Malware
Customer Challenge Workvivo is a workplace employee communication platform that allows organizations to keep their employees engaged and up to date with what their colleagues are doing. Like many solutions hosted on AWS, Workvivo utilizes Amazon S3 as the data store for ingesting and sharing files with its application users. Since employees using the platform can upload videos, images, documents, and other files, Workvivo realized there was a need to ensure that uploaded files are scanned for viruses and malware before they are shared with downstream application users.
Cloud Storage Security