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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As previously discussed in part one, cloud services are a fact of life in most organizations today – whether you know it or not. When attempting to address this problem today there are three main areas where you should focus your efforts. Reduce Your Exposure First, you want to try and reduce…
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We live in interesting times—or, if you are the victim of a data breach, maybe you don’t really feel that way! For the past several years there have been continuous ‘expert’ statements like “this is the year of the data breach” … and yet we continue to have major incidents in the news regularly. In…
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As I sit here at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during this year’s IBM InterConnect, I watch thousands of people networking and sharing information. It strikes me how many security layers big event locations like this must implement to host a conference this size. Security in this environment includes everything from…
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The Willbros Group is a 100-year-old energy infrastructure construction firm with a very modern IT problem. As it sought to leverage the public cloud and mobility to streamline efficiencies and increase competitiveness, the firm was faced with a whole new set of security and management challenges to overcome. The answer was Trend Micro Deep Security…
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“Security has to be the core of everything we do,” says Todd Forgie, vice president of IT and managed services at MEDHOST. As a leader in healthcare technology for over 30 years, MEDHOST has a history of investing in software to meet current requirements and anticipating needs in advance of market demand. MEDHOST provides software…
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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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The way business content is shared is changing dramatically. In the past, files were stored on desktops and file servers and they were typically shared as an email attachment. Organizations are increasingly using File Sync and Share tools like Dropbox for Business to increase the efficiency or their user collaborations and to enable a mobile…
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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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