October was Cybersecurity Awareness Month and this year's theme was "Do Your Part. BeCyberSmart." . The purpose of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is to empower individuals and organizations to own their role in protecting their cyberspace. With more organizations moving to the cloud, followed by rapid technological advances, increasing ransomware threats, and a global workforce managing sensitive data remotely, application and data security are perhaps more important than ever. .

Link: Five best practices for cloud application security
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