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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is well known that the main drivers for organizations to embrace virtualization and cloud computing are for the ease of use, cost savings and efficiencies that these platforms provide. Lately, organizations are also coming to understand the value of virtualization-aware security. There are extended benefits and efficiencies organizations can achieve by adopting security solutions…
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…
