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GUEST OPINION: At last the truth has been revealed and the enduring ‘agentless vs. agent’ debate is over. The inevitable result: if an organisation wants cloud workload security, it needs an agent.

GUEST OPINION: Fileless attacks are an advanced kind of malware that rank among today's most dangerous security threats.

GUEST OPINION: Companies are adopting cloud native technologies faster than ever before. With new technology comes new threats and challenges, so it’s no surprise that we’re seeing an increasing number of cyber threats targeting cloud native environments.

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has published research showing that more than 90% of malware arrives through HTTPS-encrypted connections.

Australia continues to be a malware target, with 9.2 million malware detections in the first half of 2019 - with malicious URLs also proving a popular form of attack, as the number of times a malicious URL was accessed reached 8.9 million, according to a new global security report.