Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote Recap – AWS re:Invent 2022
Learn about some of the biggest announcements and highlights from VP, Database, Analytics and ML, Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote, at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Cloud Security
AWS Cloud Security: Best Practices for Financial Services
Learn about some of the major concerns and best practices financial services companies must be aware of, to enhance the security posture of their AWS environments.
re:Invent 2021 Recap – Werner Vogels Keynote
AWS’ CTO Werner Vogels has been a highly anticipated keynote fixture throughout re:Invent’s history. He appeared on stage this year in a Hawaiin shirt following a surreal road trip down AWS memory lane, but the premise didn’t last long, quickly revealing his t-shirt of the year as “The Stranglers”. With 10 years of re:Invent, there …
re:Invent 2021 Recap – Adam Selipsky Keynote
AWS re:Invent is back, in-person, and with the new CEO of AWS, Adam Selipsky to kick off its 10th year anniversary! While it does feel a little strange to start the conference without Andy Jassy after all these years, Adam got things off to a big start, stepping deftly into the role. Adam led us …
Using Best Practices & Cloud Native AWS Services to Strengthen Security Posture
According to Sophos, over 70% of organizations hosting their workload on the cloud faced a security incident in 2020. With the increasing number of threats on the horizon, cloud security is becoming more crucial for organizations of all sizes to keep their data secured. These threats are avoidable by utilizing cloud-native AWS services to enhance …
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Spotlight on Tugboat Logic
Does the idea of removing the misery out of security and compliance procedures through automation sound unbelievable? By streamlining the process of building and maintaining your InfoSec program, Tugboat Logic’s security assurance platform simplifies compliance, drives employee security awareness, and reduces friction in enterprise sales operations. The roots of automation in software engineering go as …
Get a Streamlined Cloud Monitoring Solution With Caylent + Datadog
The Observability Problem One of the fundamental challenges that product development and operations teams face is visibility into the cloud infrastructure powering their applications. As the demand on these applications increases, internal operations teams often struggle to keep up. Additionally, DevOps and cloud-native expertise is often missing as a core competency from their team. That’s …
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Managing Secrets in Terraform
Terraform is one of the top tools available on the market to use if you want to manage and implement infrastructure as code. Terraform does more than just configuration. The platform is capable of handling the entire orchestration runtime using declarative code instead of a procedural one. There is no need to go through a …
Identity Federation in AWS with Okta
Identity and access management is one of the key components of good cloud security, which is why Amazon Web Services’ seamless integration of its IAM tool with the rest of the Amazon ecosystem becomes one of its strong suits. Developers and administrators can manage user roles and access on a granular level across the entire …
10 Steps to Optimizing DevOps and Security
Failure to implement sufficient information security measures in today’s world could lead to severe consequences. Information security needs to be an inseparable part of the continuous delivery pipeline, which is why the concept of DevSecOps has become more and more popular. DevOps may offer a way to remain agile and operate at immense efficiency, but …
Alerting: Handling On-Call Management and Notifications
Setting up an alert mechanism is becoming increasingly important due to the fast-paced nature of modern service development and delivery. Users are more sensitive to disruptions in their experience and organizations rely more on business solutions running in the cloud. For an event or an error to go unnoticed—and not handled properly—is unacceptable in the …
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Implementing Aqua Security to Secure Kubernetes
Despite the maturity of the platform, security is still a big challenge for Kubernetes users. While Kubernetes offers maximum flexibility, modularity, and ease of use in other areas, the complex nature of Kubernetes-based environments means securing the cloud environment completely is a complex task to complete. There are a lot of tools and services that …
The Importance of Planning for Disaster Recovery
The risk of cyberattacks, hardware failure, and other disasters is real, and these risks can catastrophically disable a system or application; they can even render an entire cloud environment inaccessible in some cases. When disasters are not managed as risks, disruptions to business processes are to be expected. A disaster recovery plan is basically a …
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Spotlight on Aqua Security
Security has always been an important aspect of cloud deployment. While cloud infrastructure services like AWS are now equipped with built-in security tools, there is still a big need for container-level security and a more holistic approach to cloud security in general. Aqua Security is the leading provider for container-based applications, particularly applications designed to …
A Twistlock and Threat Stack Comparison
As we have discussed in the past, protecting the security and integrity of containers is no minor task to achieve. Platforms like Kubernetes prompt the use of a variety of security features to realize comprehensive protection, which is why…
Securing Cloud-Native Applications
Application container technologies, also referred to as containers, combine application software packaging through different images with a form of operating system virtualization. The goal of such tech is that everything needed to easily package and run software reliably can be moved from one environment to another. As well as allowing devs to run an app …
