AWS Earns over 16billion this quarter + SEGA on Microsoft Azure - Cloud Security News

<p>Cloud Security News this week 27 October 2021</p> <ul> <li>In case you missed the quarterly earnings updates from last episode, I do encourage you to check it out to see how Google Cloud and Azure faired last Quarter. AWS came out still leading the pack $16.11 billion in the quarter, up almost 39% from a year ago. You can view the report <a href="https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details/2021/Amazon.com-Announces-Third-Quarter-Results/"><u>here&nbsp;</u></a></li> <li>Industry Tech giants <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2021/10/launching-collaborative-minimum.html"><u>including Google, Salesforce, Okta and Slack have announced the creation of a “vendor-neutral” security baseline for businesses called ‘Minimum Viable Secure Product’ (MVSP). Its a minimalistic security checklist for B2B software and business process outsourcing supplier designed &nbsp;to eliminate overhead, complexity and confusion during the procurement and vendor security assessment process by establishing minimum acceptable security baselines. The intention is to increase clarity reduce the onboarding and sales cycle by weeks or even months</u></a>. You can view the checklist <a href="https://mvsp.dev/"><u>here</u></a></li> <li>Remote code execution vulnerability was patched by Gitlab in April 2021 however researchers from Rapid 7 recently found that the exploitations were continuing to this day, with &nbsp;only 21% of the instances fully patched against the issue. Gitlab strongly recommends updating to the latest version to remedy this. Read more about Rapid 7’s research <a href="https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/11/01/gitlab-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-cve-2021-22205-exploited-in-the-wild/"><u>here</u></a> and Gitlab’s release <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/04/14/security-release-gitlab-13-10-3-released/"><u>here</u></a></li> <li>IBM has released their report - Cloud’s Next Leap. They surveyed over 7000 executives in enterprise cloud adoption over 44 countries. 59% of organizat