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Cloud Security Tips: How to Prevent Hackers from Breaching Your Cloud

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Recent data system breaches at Oracle and Sage reminds us all that the continuous threat of criminal hacking of cloud security systems is not abating. Rather, it’s becoming routine. Business managers, lawmakers and computing professionals must understand the motivation behind this activity if they want to protect business interests and thwart attacks effectively. Perhaps the […]

DevOps Security in Spotlight as Gartner Names vArmour Cool Vendor

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News Reports vArmour CEO Eades Nabbed $41 Million Ahead of Trump Presidency In May, Gartner named 2016 Cool Vendors in several security categories. Given the focus of this column, I was interested in several of the companies chosen for the designation, especially those named in the Cool Vendors in Cloud and Emerging Technology Security 2016 […]

DevOps Chat: Threat Stack’s Pete Cheslock and Chris Gervais

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I recently had a chance to sit down with Pete Cheslock and Chris Gervais of Threat Stack to talk DevOps and Security. Both of these guys are dialed in on both topics so as you can imagine it was a great conversation.  Here is the audio file with the transcript underneath.   Pete Cheslock, Senior Director […]

Threat Stack Announces Most Comprehensive Cloud Security Vulnerability Verification

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Cloud Security Platform™ Provides Automated CVE Check Against Every Package Installed BOSTON– March 30, 2016 – Threat Stack, a leader in cloud security management and compliance, today announced advanced capabilities in the Threat Stack Cloud Security PlatformTM that provide customers with the most comprehensive vulnerability verification of any cloud security offering currently on the market. […]

A Guide to Public Cloud Security Tools

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Why is an arrangement of servers—which are constructed of hard metal, tend to run hot and weigh thousands of pounds—called a “cloud”? It only makes sense from the standpoint of an engineering diagram, in which data travels by an undefined pathway from origin to endpoint. In that respect, the cloud refers to the randomized packet […]

Combining SecOps and DevOps

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Security has to be top of mind for most any company that is moving, or has moved, to the cloud. And, businesses know they need to act swiftly to ensure that any new products or services they’re dreaming up do not expose them to risk. How can they do that when the fast-moving nature of […]

Avoiding Common AWS Security Risks

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According to IBM’s Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95% of all security incidents involve human error. That’s beyond significant, and when rapidly deploying multiple iterations in a DevOps shop, that means there are lots of opportunities to fail. Our own independent analysis based on customer configuration data shows that security control mechanisms Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available […]

AWS re:Invent – New Releases Drive Cloud Security Innovation

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The recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas saw the release of several new AWS services for security. Some of these announcements such as AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Inspector seemed to take many in the security press and blogosphere by surprise. Cloud-native security companies like Evident.io however, weren’t surprised by these announcements. In fact, AWS […]