Things fail. It happens. A core principle of building well in the AWS Cloud is reliability. Dr. Vogels said it best, “How can you reduce the impact of failure on your customers?” He uses the term “blast radius” to describe this principle. One of the key methods for reducing blast radius is the AWS account…
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The acceleration of in-house development enabled by public cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform adoption in the last few years has given us new levels of visibility and access to data. Putting all of that data together to generate insights and action, however, can substitute one challenge for another. Proprietary protocols, inconsistent fields and formatting combined…
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If we run a contest for Mr. Popular of Amazon Web Services (AWS), without a doubt Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has ‘winner’ written all over it. However, what’s popular is not always what is critical for your business to focus on. There is popularity and then there is dependability. Let’s acknowledge how reliant we…
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Containers provide a list of benefits to organizations that use them. They’re light, flexible, add consistency across the environment and operate in isolation. However, security concerns prevent some organizations from employing containers. This is despite containers having an extra layer of security built in – they don’t run directly on the host OS. To make…
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For modern organizations, speed and agility is the key to success – built on enhanced IT efficiency and performance driven by the cloud. Anything less could see your business outpaced by the competition. As always, security must be a priority when migrating to the cloud, but network teams are being let down by existing tools….
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The inaugural AWS Cloud security conference—AWS re:Inforce—was held in Boston this week. Well over 8,000 attendees descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for two days jammed packed with security education and cloud content. This was a very interesting conference because the dynamics of the attendees felt very different from typical AWS events. Usually…
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Editors Node: This integration was created early in the product lifecycle of AWS Security Hub and was made available during the preview phase of the service. During the preview phase, this integration was tested in a number of scenarios with an assortment of customers. Based on those experiences, this integration has been retired as the team looks…
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Rapid adoption of containers is changing the way that businesses build their applications. Services like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate let builders focus on solving business problems instead of managing infrastructure. But the move to containers also requires a shift in how you approach security. Dynamic environments require security that integrates with CI/CD…
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Marnie Wilking – CISO, VP Information Assurance, Orion Health Many of the next significant, potentially lifesaving discoveries that will happen in healthcare will be the direct result of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Making the shift to big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is something 42 percent of professionals believe will…
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DevOps is not a single person or business unit, it is a development philosophy that exists within many organizations. DevOps teams build new applications for business growth, and extend critical monolithic applications into modern architectures. A key tenet of this philosophy uses microservices to make applications lightweight and easier to develop, test, and deploy. InfoSec…
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