Established in 2006 by the Council of Australian Governments, Healthdirect Australia offers free health advice online and by phone. Its popular services attract one million phone calls each year and a million visits to its web properties every month. The firm was one of Amazon Web Services’ first customers when the cloud giant opened its…
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Editors Node: Over time the Deep Security API has evolved making this workflow trivial using the APIs. Therefore the integration code has been retired and instructions on how to replicate the workflow are available in the Deep Security Automation Center. Vulnerability scanning in the cloud has always been challenging. Trying to arrange scans with your…
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We have to get this app launched… tomorrow!” Does this sound familiar? For the latest project, your company has decided to go to Amazon Web Services. Everyone loves that with AWS you don’t have to guess at capacity before you launch, pay up front for infrastructure or worry about how you’ll expand globally if the…
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There was a time, not too long ago, where simple perimeter firewalls were the state of the art. It was too complex and costly to implement proper segmentation for servers. All that’s changed with the advent of software-defined networking and advances in virtualization and host-based software. Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas…
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Time to continue with our important Amazon Web Services best practices from the Gartner paper on Cloud Workload Security. Actually, time is at the heart of this top tip. Picture yourself April 1, 2014. The Heartbleed vulnerability is disclosed. It allows attackers to pull potentially sensitive information from memory using a flaw in the SSL…
Read More In our previous tips in this series on Amazon Web Services best practices from a recent Gartner paper on Cloud Workload Security, we covered how security responsibility is shared between Amazon Web Services and you, the user. Next we covered how important visibility is to ensuring your part of the shared responsibility model. Another important…
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Editors Node: Over time the Deep Security API has evolved making this workflow trivial using the APIs. Therefore the integration code has been retired and instructions on how to replicate the workflow are available in the Deep Security Automation Center. AWS announced several news services during the day one keynote at AWS re:Invent. One of…
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Last year’s AWS re:Invent was an amazing event – a whirlwind, as it was described by many attendees. And, I’m very much looking forward to this year’s event! Without a doubt, we will witness another series of product and service launches and be wowed yet again. I can’t wait to see AWS’ new offerings, enjoy…
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Security teams need to change their approach in order to be successful in the AWS Cloud. Sure the controls you’re using are similar but their application is very different in a cloud environment. The same goes for hows teams interact as they embrace cloud technologies and techniques. The concept of DevOps is quickly becoming DevSecOps…
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Last time we discussed how the shared responsibility model works to enhance your overall security. Using the shared responsibility model, your workloads can be more secure in the cloud than the data center, a concept further confirmed by the new IDC paper from Amazon Web Services this week. Once you narrow down to the aspects of your responsibility, this…
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