The new business imperatives enabled by Cloud services namely the need for speed at scale and high velocity releases must be balanced by managing associated risks such as adhering to compliance and meeting IT security needs. The flip side of not managing risk is obvious—it amplifies the organization’s exposure to breaches causing irreparable damage; and […]
Organizations using AWS Cloud end up having several accounts for different purposes including the need to manage operations with separate accounts for different departments, deployments, new projects, functional requirements such as dev, test and production, etc. The reasons may be numerous but the underlying reason remains the same—operational efficiency which ironically is compromised as chaos […]
In its continuous endeavour to listen to customers, Amazon Web Services has launched a slew of services aimed at addressing security concerns of customers running applications on its platform. Security on Amazon Cloud is a shared responsibility. The underlying physical infrastructure is AWS responsibility and the company has achieved major certifications and compliance including SOC […]
The intense conversations around Cloud security are growing louder and passionate. Although the industry has been working continuously to develop higher security standards and best practices, the paranoia that an enterprise is only as strong as its weakest link, persists. Often that link is a careless lapse by an employee. Sometimes it could be a […]
WannaCry ransomware or WannaCrypt—as it is also known—which occurred in May this year targeted computers running Windows operating systems by encrypting data and demanding ransom in bitcoin cryptography. This was one of the most devastating security attacks in recent times, which has extensively crippled banks, law enforcement agencies and critical infrastructure disrupting citizen services in […]
