How to Achieve PCI DSS Compliance on AWS

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 15, 2023

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard merchants and service providers must comply with if they store, process, or transmit cardholder data. PCI DSS includes over 400 information security requirements, including requirements that apply to cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Organizations that use AWS to store and process credit card data must ensure their cloud infrastructure is compliant. But maintaining…

5 Cloud Migration Benefits in 2022

by Hannah Grace Holladay / December 16, 2022

Cloud platforms are popular, but they aren’t yet ubiquitous. Six out of ten businesses have conducted a cloud migration, but that implies four out of ten haven’t. If your business hasn’t made the leap to cloud infrastructure, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. In this article, we explore five reasons you may want to reconsider moving some of your workloads to cloud platform like AWS or…

5 Ways AWS Security Features Strengthen Business Cloud Security and Compliance

by Hannah Grace Holladay / April 12, 2023

Businesses have many infrastructure hosting solutions to choose from, from physical servers hosted in owned data centers, to colocated servers in managed data centers, to many different cloud platforms. However, in 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by far the largest infrastructure hosting platform in the world.  Businesses choose AWS because it offers a diverse array of cloud services backed by the technical expertise of one of the most valuable…

AWS IAM Account Security: 5 AWS IAM Best Practices

by Hannah Grace Holladay / April 12, 2023

AWS provides dozens of cloud services ranging from storage and compute to machine learning and security services. AWS is by far the biggest cloud platform, and thousands of businesses entrust it with their most sensitive data and critical workloads. Ensuring only authorized users can access these assets is the job of AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM).  As you might imagine, improper use of AWS IAM can create serious…

Do These 8 Vulnerabilities Affect Your Infrastructure’s AWS Security?

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 13, 2023

AWS Vulnerabilities Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the enterprise cloud landscape. Around two-thirds of business cloud users host infrastructure on AWS.  That includes many of the biggest companies in the world and small and medium businesses in the tens of thousands. AWS’s popularity makes it a tempting target for cybercriminals: AWS vulnerabilities could let them steal data from thousands of businesses. Amazon regularly finds and fixes vulnerabilities in the platform’s…