6 AWS Sustainability Pillar Principles

6 AWS Sustainability Pillar Principles

What is the Sustainability Pillar? The latest addition to the AWS Well-Architected Framework aims to help you use environmental best practices for cloud computing. By following the six design principles and architectural best practices, organizations will be able to improve their carbon footprint while balancing cost, security, agility, reliability, and operational excellence. Sustainability in the cloud Sustainability is a hot topic. By moving to the AWS Cloud, your company is already reducing its carbon footprint….

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Benefits of Cyber Attribution for Better Cyber Risk Management

Benefits of Cyber Attribution for Better Cyber Risk Management

What does cyber attribution really mean? Is it just pointing a finger at the bad guy? This article explores the meaning of cyber attribution, the benefits, and how to leverage security tools to help your attribution efforts. What is cyber attribution? Cyber attribution is the process of tracking and identifying the perpetrator of a cyberattack or other hacking exploit, which enables organizations to gain a complete picture of an attack and enhance their cybersecurity strategy…

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Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities Workload Security AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365 – learn how to protect against their common vulnerabilities. By: Jiri Sykora, Sunil Bharti May 19, 2022 Read time:  ( words) What is AADInternals? AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365. As the name suggest it deals with…

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Cloud Cyber Risk Assessment – Sandstone CTO Weighs-in

Cloud Cyber Risk Assessment – Sandstone CTO Weighs-in

Cloud complexity Sandstone, a FinTech organization that primarily offers digital banking solutions and products, decided to go fully cloud-native in 2018 to accelerate business innovation. While the shift from on-premises to the cloud provided several operational benefits, securing a perimeter-less environment where new assets could be spun up whenever, wherever presented a new challenge for Pinnamanemi and his team. Cattle vs. pets Pinnamanemi uses the “cattle vs. pets” analogy to describe the difference of asset…

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Virtual Machine vs Container

Virtual Machine vs Container

The difference between virtual machines and containers Virtual machines (VMs) and containers are as similar as they are different. They each have their own unique characteristics and use cases that separate them from each other. However, they are similar in that they can be used either together, or interchangeably, to enhance IT and DevOps efficiency. Great, all that sounds fine and dandy, but what are virtual machines and containers actually used for? I’m glad you…

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Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

Cloud Configuration Management: Add These Guardrails After Launch

The Challenge With a brand-new account, your initial configuration sets the tone. With existing accounts, the challenge is twofold. The first is the team working with that account will already be used to operating under the existing configuration. And since they’ve been doing it this way for a while and things are working, there’s no motivation to change. The second challenge is on the technical side. Can these guardrails be implemented without breaking anything inside…

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New AWS Competency Category – Why It’s Important

New AWS Competency Category – Why It’s Important

What is AWS DevOps Competency Partners? AWS DevOps Competency Partners are vendors vetted and selected by AWS that “have demonstrated expertise in delivering DevOps solutions on AWS.” According to AWS, these solutions include: software products to simplify provisioning and managing infrastructure, deploying application code, automating software release processes, monitoring application and infrastructure performance, and integrating security best practices, policies, and guardrails into CI/CD pipelines. Why it matters to DevOps teams DevSecOps is the newest category,…

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Unified Cybersecurity Platform: Why CISOs are Shifting

Unified Cybersecurity Platform: Why CISOs are Shifting

Unified Cybersecurity Platform: Why CISOs are Shifting Risk Management Our global study polled more than 2,300 IT security decision makers to discover how to best assist and support SecOps teams with a unified cybersecurity platform so you can be more resilient with less resources. By: Trend Micro April 24, 2022 Read time:  ( words) As the number of threats continues to rapidly increase and the corporate attack surface expands due to the accelerated shift to…

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Here’s a Path to Better Attack Surface Risk Management

Here’s a Path to Better Attack Surface Risk Management

So, how can security leaders stay on top of their attack surface and ahead of the bad guys? By leveraging a unified cybersecurity platform that enables continuous security visibility and monitoring across the discovery, assessment, and mitigation phases of the attack surface risk lifecycle. Let’s dive deeper into how a platform can enhance attack surface risk management versus utilizing point products. Discover your digital attack surface First, you need total visibility to be able to…

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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022

Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022

Zero day and known vulnerabilities Increased media attention and big payouts will motivate cybercriminals to launch an unprecedented number of zero-day exploits, surpassing the record-setting number in 2021. However, security leaders still need to look out for older, known vulnerabilities. As we previously mentioned, old vulnerabilities are still traded and purchased in underground markets, as enterprises often struggle with complex patch management. In 2022, we’ll see malicious actors continuing to take advantage of the growing…

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