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Common Kubernetes Commands & Administrator Functions (cli commands)

Created: 2026-09-21Scope: kubectl commands, administrator functions, multi-cloud platform comparisons Executive Summary Kubernetes administration revolves around the kubectl CLI tool and a set of higher-level management tools. This report documents the most common commands across all resource types, essential administrative workflows, and platform-specific considerations for AWS EKS, GCP GKE, and Azure AKS. Core kubectl Commands by…

News alert: Cloud security report finds fragmented tools widening the cloud complexity gap

WASHINGTON, Jun. 10, 2026, CyberNewswire–The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, produced in collaboration with Fortinet, finds that 69% of organizations cite tool sprawl and visibility gaps as the top factor limiting cloud security effectiveness. Based on a survey of 1,163 IT and cybersecurity professionals, the report shows the strain: 66% lack strong confidence…

Rubrik launches Autonomous Business Recovery to rebuild cloud applications after cyberattacks

Rubrik has unveiled Autonomous Business Recovery (ABR) for Cloud Applications, the agentic cyber resilience solution that recovers cloud applications from data to network, identity and configurations. The end result is a rebuild of an organization’s Minimum Viable Business (MVB) at machine speed. At a time when powerful AI models collapse the window between vulnerability discovery…

Apple brings Private Cloud Compute to third-party data centers

Apple is bringing its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) platform to Google Cloud, expanding the infrastructure behind Apple Intelligence to third-party data centers. Introduced in 2024, PCC provides cloud-based processing for AI workloads that exceed the capabilities of on-device models while maintaining Apple’s security and privacy guarantees. The system was originally built on Apple silicon and…

Minimus Unveils New Supply Chain Protection Proxy and Command-Line Interface for Container Management

Cloud software security firm Minimus today expanded its product portfolio with the general availability of Minimus Supply Chain Protection and minicli. The tools introduce a unified approach to managing third-party software risks and container image configurations. The release of Supply Chain Protection directly targets vulnerabilities found within the application package universe, where interwoven dependencies are…

PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network

The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. “Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer…

Video: What Partners Need to Know About Cisco Cloud Control

Cisco has launched Cisco Cloud Control, a new platform designed to manage networking, security, observability, compute, and collaboration from a single interface. But the bigger story is Cisco’s vision for AgenticOps—an operating model where AI agents help investigate issues, correlate data, recommend actions, and eventually automate IT operations. In this video, we break down what…

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise…

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise…

Cisco Debuts Cloud Control for Agentic IT Operations

Cisco today unveiled Cisco Cloud Control, a new unified platform built for humans and AI agents to manage, monitor, and defend critical IT infrastructure. This platform is fully extensible, with more than 40 ecosystem tooling connectors, and fully customizable, enabling the creation of custom applications and agents using natural language directly within the platform. Cisco…

What Is Cloud Security Management? Types & Strategies in 2026

This guide is for cloud security teams, IT leaders, and security administrators looking to improve cloud visibility, data protection, and compliance across modern cloud environments in 2026. It explains how cloud security management works, key cloud security strategies and tools, and best practices for securing cloud infrastructure and operations. Key Points about Cloud Security Management…

Sherweb Targets MSP Billing Gaps with HaloPSA Integration

Sherweb has launched a native integration with HaloPSA to automate cloud billing workflows for managed service providers (MSPs), delivering real-time subscription and license updates directly within the PSA platform. The company said it is the first provider to integrate natively with HaloPSA for automated cloud billing synchronization, allowing customer license purchases and subscription changes to…

Microsoft’s new cloud PCs place AI agents under enterprise controls

Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform for agentic workloads, runs AI agents in secure environments. Organizations can direct agents with natural language to interact with applications, browsers, files, and enterprise systems. The platform is available in public preview. A conceptual computer-using agent architecture. (Source: Microsoft) Users will be able to automate workflows…

19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required

19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There’s a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they hand to companies is locked somewhere safe. Researchers at Mysterium VPN just ran the numbers, and the numbers disagree. Across 535,480 publicly listable cloud storage…

Top 7 Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Tools in 2026

This guide is for IT leaders, cloud security teams, and compliance professionals looking to strengthen cloud security posture and reduce configuration risks in 2026. It covers the top cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools and the key capabilities organizations should evaluate to improve visibility, automate remediation, and enforce compliance across cloud environments. Key Takeaways of…

Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster

Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch software vulnerabilities at machine speed. The product is aimed at enterprises contending with attackers who use AI to discover and exploit flaws in hours or days, compressing windows that once stretched into…

‘Patched’ Windows bug resurfaces 6 years later as working SYSTEM-level exploit

An old elevation of privilege (EoV) vulnerability affecting the Cloud Filter driver “cldflt.sys” in Windows has come back to haunt Microsoft, as researchers claim it is still exploitable six years after it was supposedly patched. The flaw, originally reported to Microsoft by Google Project Zero researcher James Forshaw in September 2020, was recently picked up…

Here’s one career emerging from the AI shift: ‘forward-deployed engineers’

On Thursday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian issued a call for “forward-deployed engineers” to apply for jobs in the company’s go-to-market AI team. Their task: help non-tech organizations scale up their AI deployments. That term — forward-deployed engineers, FDE for short — has been coming up a lot lately in conversations with CTOs, software engineers,…

Acronis Launches Cyber Frame IaaS Platform for MSPs

The cyber protection company wants to give MSPs and cloud providers a way to run infrastructure on their own terms, without the vendor lock-in hangover. Acronis on Wednesday unveiled Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform built specifically for service providers tired of being squeezed by legacy virtualization costs and hyperscaler…

Versa CSPM brings continuous visibility to cloud risk and compliance exposure

Versa has announced Versa Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), extending the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform to provide continuous visibility, prioritization, and remediation of cloud risk across environments. With CSPM, Versa combines secure access protection and cloud posture risk on a single platform, delivering the visibility security teams need to quantify and reduce enterprise cyber exposure.…

Enabling AI sovereignty on AWS

Cloud and AI are transforming industries and societies at unprecedented speed, from accelerating research and enhancing customer experiences to optimizing business processes and enriching public services. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we believe that for the cloud and AI to reach their full potential, customers need control over their data and choices for how and…

Transilience AI unveils Security Operating System for cloud remediation

Transilience AI has announced the general availability of its Full Stack Security Operating System for the cloud, platform designed to solve one of enterprise security’s most persistent challenges: bridging the gap between detection and remediation. New platform replaces fragmented tool sprawl with an agent-powered, human-guided second brain, moving security posture from Detected to Eliminated. Cloud…

Sysdig delivers cloud security that runs inside AI coding agents

Sysdig announced headless cloud security, a cyberdefense platform designed for the agentic AI era. Sysdig Headless Cloud Security enables customers to drop the traditional, one-size-fits-all UI approach and equip their AI agents as the primary operators of machine-speed, data-driven cyberdefense. Over the last year, rapid advancements across coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and…

Why data centers now belong on the critical infrastructure list

Missile and drone attacks that took out cloud data centers in the Middle East underscored a critical vulnerability in the modern economy: reliance on digital infrastructure that sustains competitive advantage and operational continuity for corporations, nations, and militaries.  The outages and downstream disruption were a preview of a new form of strategic and operational risk.…

AWS, Microsoft, & Google Cloud Converge Around AI-Led Growth

The “big three” hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google Cloud, have been especially active over the past 12 months, operating both as suppliers of in-demand data center capacity for AI model developers and as builders of their own models, services, and tools. While each has historically leaned into distinct strengths and target markets,…

Netskope, Rubrik, Commvault Expand Google Cloud Security

At this year’s Google Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas, tech and cybersecurity companies across the channel unveiled their latest announcements spanning AI, security, infrastructure, and more. While artificial intelligence was firmly front and center, themes around enhanced cybersecurity, particularly AI guardrails and cyber resilience, emerged as equally important priorities. In this recap, we…

Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot

Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, isolated execution. You can now start cloud agent sessions directly from Visual Studio. Custom agents now support user-level definitions that persist across projects, making it easier to reuse configurations. The update also…

AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats

As Amazon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its AWS cloud this year, the world’s biggest cloud computing provider now faces two giant cybersecurity threats — AI and quantum. How the company will navigate these emerging issues to ensure the security and resilience of systems used by its millions of corporate customers remains an evolving question.…

DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud unifies infrastructure, inference, and agents for production AI

DigitalOcean has introduced the AI-Native Cloud, an end-to-end platform built for the inference and agentic era. Spanning infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agents, it already supports production workloads at Higgsfield AI, Hippocratic AI, ISMG, Bright Data, and LawVo. AI-native builders are caught between imperfect options: hyperscalers built for the enterprise cloud era, with…

25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget

Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond to incidents throughout the development and operational lifecycle. Allama: Open-source AI security automation Allama is an…

Google Cloud Makes Key Agentic AI Announcements at Next ‘26

To coincide with the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference – Google Cloud’s largest event – the cloud giant is making a number of announcements, including the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, advancements to its AI Hypercomputer architecture, and introducing the Agentic Data Cloud. A single platform for agent development, orchestration, and governance Google Cloud is…

Vercel breached via compromised third-party AI tool

Cloud deployment and hosting platform Vercel has suffered a security breach that resulted in attackers accessing some of its internal systems and compromising Vercel credentials of a “limited subset of customers”. Advice for affected customers “The incident originated with a compromise of Context.ai, a third-party AI tool used by a Vercel employee,” the Vercel security…

Vercel Confirms Security Incident as Threat Actor Claims Stolen Data for Sale

Cloud development platform Vercel has confirmed a security incident involving unauthorized access to internal systems, after a threat actor claimed to be selling stolen company data online.  “We’ve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems,” said the company in its advisory. Threat Actor Claims Access to Vercel Systems  Vercel…

EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers

The European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a cloud services tender worth up to €180 million over six years. The initiative gives EU institutions and agencies access to sovereign cloud services delivered by a group of Europe-based providers. Four vendors were selected under the tender. Post Telecom…

How Addressing Cloud Misconfigurations Disrupts the Cyber Kill Chain

In this post, I will show you how addressing cloud misconfigurations disrupts the cyber kill chain. Cloud environments offer speed and flexibility, but they introduce new risks. One common issue is misconfiguration. Small mistakes, such as overly broad access permissions or publicly exposed resources, can open the door to attackers. These gaps sometimes go unnoticed…

[Webinar] Find and Eliminate Orphaned Non-Human Identities in Your Environment

In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, andOAuth grants. When projects end or employees leave, most

Axonius updates Asset Cloud with AI, exposure management, and asset trust standard

Axonius has expanded its Asset Cloud with AI-powered remediation in Axonius Exposures, added support for IoT and OT environments via Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets, and introduced a new data trust standard with Axonius Verified Assets. “Security environments have grown more distributed, more dynamic, and more complex, and when teams can’t fully understand their environment, they simply…

The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this

The Cloud Security Alliance has published a briefing on what it calls a turning point in the threat landscape: the time between a vulnerability being discovered and a working exploit is shrinking fast. The briefing centers on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which autonomously found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, generated working…

China-linked cloud credential heist runs on typos and SMTP

China-aligned hackers have deployed a Linux-based ELF backdoor to steal cloud credentials at scale from workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud environments. According to Breakglass Intelligence findings, the backdoor uses a “zero-detection” technique, employing SMTP port 25 as a covert command-and-control (C2) channel to harvest cloud provider credentials and metadata. “A selective C2…

When Trust Becomes a Weapon: Google Cloud Storage Phishing Deploying Remcos RAT

Modern phishing campaigns increasingly abuse legitimate services. Cloud platforms, file-sharing tools, trusted domains, and widely used SaaS applications are now part of the attacker’s toolkit. Instead of breaking trust, attackers borrow it.  This shift creates a dangerous asymmetry. Security controls often whitelist or inherently trust these services, while users are far less likely to question them. The…

RapidScale Set to Announce New Partner Program

RapidScale, a managed cloud services organization, has announced its new partner program to change how it engages with the channel. The Ascend Partner Program is a tiered initiative that accelerates RapidScale’s new solutions-led go-to-market approach and partners’ role as strategic advisors. The program is designed to empower partners to capture a greater share of customer…

Here’s how cyber heavyweights in the US and UK are dealing with Claude Mythos

A joint report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the SANS Institute and the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) concludes that in the near term, organizations are “likely to be overwhelmed” by threat actors using AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them. While those organizations can use AI tools…

Intruder expands cloud security with agentless container image scanning

Intruder has announced the release of Container Image Scanning, a new upgrade to its cloud security capabilities that automatically scans container images for vulnerabilities, granting customers actionable insight into container risk without deploying and maintaining scanning agents across their estates. Leveraging existing integrations with major cloud providers, Intruder supports Amazon Web Services Elastic Container Registry,…

New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat’scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet’s targeting infrastructure. “Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,” Darktrace said in a new report.

European Commission breach exposed data of 30 EU entities, CERT-EU says

CERT-EU says a European Commission cloud hack exposed data from 30 EU entities and links the breach to the TeamPCP group. CERT-EU attributed a European Commission cloud breach to the TeamPCP threat group, revealing that data from at least 30 EU entities was exposed. The incident was publicly disclosed on March 27 after inquiries confirmed…

Trivy supply chain attack enabled European Commission cloud breach

CERT-EU confirmed that ShinyHunters are behind the recent breach of the cloud infrastructure underpinning websites of the European Commission, and that they stole and subsequently leaked approximately 340 GB of data. “Analysis of the published dataset has so far confirmed the presence of personal data, including lists of names, last names, usernames, and email addresses,…

AWS, Wasabi, Cloudflare, and Backblaze go head-to-head in new cloud storage test

Cloud storage buyers rarely get vendor-provided performance data that includes the vendor’s own weak spots. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, attempts to do exactly that, sharing benchmark results for Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage across US-East and EU-Central regions, and including results where Backblaze’s own rate limits affected the…

Egnyte expands Content Cloud with AI Governance and built-in Assistant

Egnyte has announced two major additions to the Egnyte Content Cloud: AI Safeguards, which give organizations granular control over how AI interacts with sensitive content, and an AI Assistant that acts as a built-in collaborator across Egnyte workspaces. AI Safeguards As organizations accelerate AI adoption, ungoverned access to sensitive content by AI systems represents a…

Cloud Security Alliance Wins 2026 SC Award for AI Security Certification

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has won the 2026 SC Award for Best Professional Certification Program for its Trusted AI Security Expert (TAISE) credential, a training program focused on the secure development, deployment, and governance of generative AI systems. The recognition comes as organizations continue adopting AI tools at a rapid pace, often while security,…

Second data breach at European Commission this year leaves questions over resilience

The European Commission confirmed that a cyberattack impacted cloud infrastructure hosting its web presence on the Europa.eu platform. Authorities said the cyberattack was discovered on 24 March, and early findings from the ongoing investigation suggest data were taken from the affected websites. There is no indication that the Commission’s internal systems were affected by the…