With more organisations moving to the cloud , there have been some reservations about how safe and secure data is .

The Cloud Security Alliance ( CSA ) has recently released a new report entitled Sensitive Data in the Cloud . It was found that the vast majority of organisations ( 89 %) host sensitive data or workloads in the cloud . Of those organisations , 67 % host some sensitive data in the public cloud , and 45 % host in the private cloud . With such sensitive data in these cloud environments , it emphasises the need for properly securing this data with measures like encryption .

Just over a third of organisations were not confident or only slightly confident about their ability to protect sensitive data in a cloud environment , and another 44 % reported they were only moderately confident .

If these issues are highlighted , it enables service providers and organisations to close these gaps .

� BOOSTING CYBER

SKILLS The US Government has launched a new initiative , the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Sprint campaign , to boost the number of people in cybersecurityrelated apprenticeship programmes , tackling the cyber-skills gap .

� TSA UPDATES CYBERSECURITY REQUIREMENTS The Transportation Security Administration ( TSA ) has updated its directive for oil and natural gas pipeline cybersecurity , providing owners and operators more flexibility over security management and incident response .

� INCREASE IN MALWARE 2.8 billion malware attacks were detected in the first half of 2022 , representing the first recorded growth in global malware volumes in three years , according to SonicWall .

� T-MOBILE PAYS OUT

AFTER DATA BREACH T-Mobile has agreed to pay US $ 350mn after a data breach disclosed last year , affecting tens of millions of people . It will also spend an extra US $ 150mn on cybersecurity through the end of 2023 .

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