Follow These AWS Security Best Practices to Secure Your Cloud Environment
Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have transformed how we do business. They allow organizations access to highly scalable and flexible computing architecture for a fraction of the cost of a fully in-house solution. However, as organizations migrate to the cloud with record speed, security sometimes falls by the wayside. The complexity of […]
Hybrid Cloud Security Best Practices: Secure the Multi-cloud Environment
Hybrid cloud computing is a “best of both worlds” approach made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud – such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – with orchestration among the various platforms. Additionally, from a pure security perspective, hybrid cloud setups can also allow […]
Best Practices for Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud services are booming and adoption continues unabated. That’s a good thing, given that the efficiencies that are attached to cloud computing can unlock value and scalability and make organizations more competitive. There is one significant caveat, however: All of this growth and adoption has created extraordinary complexity and increased risk. Many infrastructure providers offer […]
Top 4 Hybrid Cloud Security Challenges
Some companies that choose to migrate to the cloud still need to maintain on-premises operations, whether due to compliance mandates or a variety of other reasons. In such scenarios, opting for a hybrid setup is the natural solution. Yet while going hybrid can offer the best of both worlds and ultimately improve an organization’s security […]
How Pizza Can Be the Recipe to Understand Cloud Security
It’s not always easy to wrap your mind around the various layers of cloud security and how they differ from conventional on-premises computing. Fortunately, we’ve formulated a simple (and delicious) metaphor for your consumption: A pizza dinner. First, think of conventional on-premises computing as the “at home” version of a pizza dinner. You manage the […]
Top 5 Hybrid Cloud Security Breaches in 5 Years
Julius Caesar famously said, “Experience is the best teacher.” Yet no organization wants to learn by experience when it comes to cloud security breaches. Instead, it’s better to learn from the examples of other organizations that have endured their own cloud data breach incidents. Over the past few years, there has been no shortage of high-profile […]
Why Breach and Attack Simulations Are the Keys to a Secure Cloud
Many of today’s businesses are compelled to migrate to the cloud on an accelerated timeline. Unfortunately, this business mandate often forces teams to push forward without fully working through the security considerations. For a prominent example of this phenomenon, look no further than Amazon Web Services (AWS). When firms begin building their infrastructure in AWS, […]
