Secure Your Infrastructure with AWS CIS Benchmarks

by Hannah Grace Holladay / May 31, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely used cloud platform. It offers hundreds of networking, storage, compute, and managed cloud services, each of which helps organizations to build robust and reliable IT infrastructure without the need to manage data centers and physical hardware.  However, AWS’s richness and complexity can be challenging to configure and administer to maximize security, privacy, and compliance. This is a particular problem for organizations lacking…

Cloud Compliance and Security: The Truth Behind 5 Cloud Computing Myths

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 15, 2023

Cloud computing myths have occupied the IT world since the cloud became a viable infrastructure hosting option a decade and a half ago. Those of us who worked in IT at the time remember the many misconceptions about what the cloud was and whether it was possible to host business-critical services in the cloud while maintaining security and regulatory compliance.  The IT industry and the cloud have evolved beyond all…

What is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)?

by Hannah Grace Holladay / July 12, 2023

A cloud access security broker (CASB) is a software security service that acts as an intermediary between business cloud users and cloud providers. CASBs monitor data flow to and from cloud platforms, ensuring that cloud use comply with information security policies and regulations.  Much as a firewall enables businesses to enforce security policies for incoming and outgoing network traffic, a CASB enables them to enforce infrastructure and information security policies…

5 Reasons to Migrate Your Data Center to the Cloud

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 15, 2023

Have you considered moving your business’s data center to the cloud? The proportion of businesses operating an in-house data center declined over the last decade. Many—from small companies to multinational corporations—migrated their workloads to the cloud. Estimates suggest that about a third of businesses run more than 50% of their workloads in the cloud, and the majority run at least some workloads on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services…

10 S3 Best Practices for Improving AWS Security

by Hannah Grace Holladay / April 12, 2023

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) celebrated its 15th birthday in 2021. S3 was conceived as a straightforward scalable object storage system developers could use without concerning themselves with files systems—everything on S3 is an addressable object in a bucket. S3 quickly rose to dominate the object storage space. Because it is used everywhere, AWS S3 security as well as the privacy and confidentiality of the data businesses store…