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FireEye Report: Industry To Face Cloud-Based Cyber Attacks, New Nation-State Threats

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, December 11th, 2017

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FireEye Report: Industry To Face Cloud-Based Cyber Attacks, New Nation-State Threats

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Nation-state adversaries and cyber actors are preparing new cyber capabilities to steal critical data held in the cloud, according to FireEye’s [FEYE] latest security predictions for 2018.FireEye released its cyber predictions report Dec, 7, and the cyber security company sees new tools used to expose vulnerabilities in cloud computing services and state-sponsored threat activities as the top defensive priorities for next year.“We need better cloud visibility. It’s as simple as that. I’ve been waiting for the day – and it’s…

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