Emerging Need of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Maurice Dawson
This submission examines the emerging need of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to include the associated roles and responsibilities. One of the key artificacts associated with the CISO shall be detailed such as the security plan.
The CISO in 2020: Prepare for the UnexpectedIBM Security
The document summarizes the findings of a 2014 survey of 138 chief information security officers (CISOs) on the state of security leadership. It finds that CISOs now have more influence in their organizations but also face greater challenges from sophisticated external threats. CISOs believe securing entire ecosystems, not just individual organizations, will be important in the future. Emerging areas like mobile security still need work, while cloud security budgets are increasing. CISOs are uncertain how regulations will evolve but are focusing on technology, collaboration, and planning for different governance scenarios.
- The document outlines a roadmap for a CISO's first 100 days in a new role. It discusses assessing the organization's security posture, planning security strategy and goals, and taking initial actions like redefining teams. Key steps include preparing for day one, assessing people and processes, planning strategy and a 2-3 year roadmap, acting on projects and technology selection, and measuring program impact and providing executive reports. The roadmap is meant to help a new CISO gain insight, define a security vision, and show early progress and wins.
The document discusses the results of IBM's 2012 Chief Information Security Officer study. It found that security leaders see external threats as the biggest challenge and mobility as the top technology concern. They also report that business leadership is paying more attention to security. Security roles are evolving as well, with three models emerging: responders focus on crises; protectors on compliance; and influencers strengthen communication and use metrics for strategic priorities. Influencers are more likely to have dedicated security roles and treat security as a board-level issue.
Don't Get Left In The Dust How To Evolve From Ciso To CiroPriyanka Aash
The role of the CISO is evolving to become the CIRO (Chief Information Risk Officer) to better align information security with business objectives. Drivers for this change include the growing importance of information to businesses and increased expectations from boards. To become a CIRO, one must adopt a risk-based approach, demonstrate business acumen, and have strong communication and leadership skills. The CIRO role oversees a broader set of functions beyond security to holistically manage information risk across the enterprise.
Summary: To have positive authority upon Information Security is one of the goals every organization should achieve. A CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is the responsible person in the company who should protect the business from the IT infrastructure. CISO will lead a security professional team which will take care of all the security components within an IT infrastructure.
Presenter: This week’s presenter will be our partner Mr. Daniel Robles, President of Cyborg Consulting, a company involved with Information and Cyber Security consulting, training, auditing and coaching. He is an experienced trainer and consultant with more than 20 professional certificates gained from credible institutions.
From Cave Man to Business Man, the Evolution of the CISO to CIROPriyanka Aash
The CISO is evolving to CIRO. Successful IT security leaders are transforming their skills to meet the demands for today and future needs of their organization. A CIRO understands how to prepare board presentations, information risk management, third-party risk and regulatory requirements, and how to balance those with the needs of the business. Earn your seat at the table by becoming a CIRO!
(Source: RSA USA 2016-San Francisco)
Tenable: Economic, Operational and Strategic Benefits of Security Framework A...Mighty Guides, Inc.
Lester Godsey discusses how a security framework provides a baseline for acceptable security practices in an organization and enables security conversations with other business areas. It gives context for discussing exceptions or additional controls. Most businesses customize frameworks based on their specific needs and regulations. Having a framework in place allows an organization to design security metrics that map to important controls and align with business objectives.
Lee Bailey notes that security frameworks help mature a security practice by guiding organizations from identifying needs to defining controls and processes. It enables aligning security and business objectives by making security decisions based on risk and explaining security issues to non-technical staff. For retailers, payment security standards help maintain customer trust and confidence, supporting the core business strategy. Frameworks also simplify
Emerging Need of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Maurice Dawson
This submission examines the emerging need of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to include the associated roles and responsibilities. One of the key artificacts associated with the CISO shall be detailed such as the security plan.
The CISO in 2020: Prepare for the UnexpectedIBM Security
The document summarizes the findings of a 2014 survey of 138 chief information security officers (CISOs) on the state of security leadership. It finds that CISOs now have more influence in their organizations but also face greater challenges from sophisticated external threats. CISOs believe securing entire ecosystems, not just individual organizations, will be important in the future. Emerging areas like mobile security still need work, while cloud security budgets are increasing. CISOs are uncertain how regulations will evolve but are focusing on technology, collaboration, and planning for different governance scenarios.
- The document outlines a roadmap for a CISO's first 100 days in a new role. It discusses assessing the organization's security posture, planning security strategy and goals, and taking initial actions like redefining teams. Key steps include preparing for day one, assessing people and processes, planning strategy and a 2-3 year roadmap, acting on projects and technology selection, and measuring program impact and providing executive reports. The roadmap is meant to help a new CISO gain insight, define a security vision, and show early progress and wins.
The document discusses the results of IBM's 2012 Chief Information Security Officer study. It found that security leaders see external threats as the biggest challenge and mobility as the top technology concern. They also report that business leadership is paying more attention to security. Security roles are evolving as well, with three models emerging: responders focus on crises; protectors on compliance; and influencers strengthen communication and use metrics for strategic priorities. Influencers are more likely to have dedicated security roles and treat security as a board-level issue.
Don't Get Left In The Dust How To Evolve From Ciso To CiroPriyanka Aash
The role of the CISO is evolving to become the CIRO (Chief Information Risk Officer) to better align information security with business objectives. Drivers for this change include the growing importance of information to businesses and increased expectations from boards. To become a CIRO, one must adopt a risk-based approach, demonstrate business acumen, and have strong communication and leadership skills. The CIRO role oversees a broader set of functions beyond security to holistically manage information risk across the enterprise.
Summary: To have positive authority upon Information Security is one of the goals every organization should achieve. A CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is the responsible person in the company who should protect the business from the IT infrastructure. CISO will lead a security professional team which will take care of all the security components within an IT infrastructure.
Presenter: This week’s presenter will be our partner Mr. Daniel Robles, President of Cyborg Consulting, a company involved with Information and Cyber Security consulting, training, auditing and coaching. He is an experienced trainer and consultant with more than 20 professional certificates gained from credible institutions.
From Cave Man to Business Man, the Evolution of the CISO to CIROPriyanka Aash
The CISO is evolving to CIRO. Successful IT security leaders are transforming their skills to meet the demands for today and future needs of their organization. A CIRO understands how to prepare board presentations, information risk management, third-party risk and regulatory requirements, and how to balance those with the needs of the business. Earn your seat at the table by becoming a CIRO!
(Source: RSA USA 2016-San Francisco)
Tenable: Economic, Operational and Strategic Benefits of Security Framework A...Mighty Guides, Inc.
Lester Godsey discusses how a security framework provides a baseline for acceptable security practices in an organization and enables security conversations with other business areas. It gives context for discussing exceptions or additional controls. Most businesses customize frameworks based on their specific needs and regulations. Having a framework in place allows an organization to design security metrics that map to important controls and align with business objectives.
Lee Bailey notes that security frameworks help mature a security practice by guiding organizations from identifying needs to defining controls and processes. It enables aligning security and business objectives by making security decisions based on risk and explaining security issues to non-technical staff. For retailers, payment security standards help maintain customer trust and confidence, supporting the core business strategy. Frameworks also simplify
The Perspective of Today's Information Security LeaderRavila White
This document discusses the perspectives and attributes necessary for information security leaders to effectively integrate security into the business. It argues that the traditional "Tao of information security" approach is outdated, and that today's security leaders must take a multi-dimensional perspective that incorporates business acumen, financial savvy, risk visioning, and sustainability. The document outlines these leadership attributes and provides examples of how security professionals can address business needs and priorities from an information security lens.
Sans 20 CSC: Connecting Security to the Business MissionTripwire
The document summarizes Katherine Brocklehurst's presentation at the 2013 SANS CSC Summit where she discussed the role and challenges of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Some key points included that the CISO needs business experience and the ability to communicate security issues to executives in a way that shows relevance to the organization's mission. The presentation also discussed using metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into the organization's security posture and risks across different business units and technical platforms to report to various stakeholders.
The four horsemen of IT project doom -- kappelmanLeon Kappelman
Based on a in-depth study, this short paper explains how to spot and what to do about the early warning signs of IT project failure and the four horseman of IT project doom. IT project failure is not a technology problem, it's a management problem rooted in people and process weaknesses. Anyone with eyes can see these early warning signs.
A review of the "lessons learned" in establishing a CISO/CSO role in two different organizations. The things that security folks DON\'T tell you...
The document summarizes a career talk on security risk careers given by four professionals with CISSP and other certifications. They discussed topics like IT risk management roles and responsibilities, common career paths, necessary experience and education, and tips for breaking into the field. The presenters also described their own backgrounds and day-to-day work in areas like risk analysis, vendor assessments, and managing technology and business risks.
Learn from the experts! Tune into this webinar to hear Doug Copley, Deputy CISO/Security & Privacy Strategist for Forcepoint, talk about What It Takes to be a CISO in 2017: expectations, challenges, partnerships, the roadmap,critical activities and more.
The document discusses the challenges of hiring the right Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for financial services firms. It notes that the CISO role is still evolving and there is no consensus on the required qualifications. It recommends that firms clarify the CISO role and their security needs by making cybersecurity a board-level priority, assessing their current security posture and vulnerabilities, and evaluating their security culture. Taking these steps will help firms define the right profile for their next CISO candidate.
This white paper discusses the challenges of hiring the right Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and provides recommendations to improve the hiring process. It notes that the CISO role is still evolving and most executives do not fully understand the role's responsibilities. It recommends that companies clarify the CISO role by making cybersecurity a board-level priority, assessing current security strengths and weaknesses, and evaluating organizational security culture to identify needed CISO skills. Taking these steps will help companies define CISO job requirements and find candidates best suited to their specific cybersecurity needs.
Less tech more talk the future of the ciso rolePriyanka Aash
As technology’s role in business success increases, so does the importance of cybersecurity. This session will discuss how the role of the CISO is evolving from a technical position to a business-focused position, and the business and communication skills that will become critical.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Scaling an Application Security Program at the IMF: A Case StudyPriyanka Aash
The IMF and Aspect Security (now part of EY) created a risk-based assurance process to build the IMF’s application security program from the ground up. Presenters will share experiences in scaling from the occasional review of a few applications to providing assurance across our portfolio of applications. The session will discuss how to provide targeted training, tailored design guidance and risk-based assessment activities.
Learning Objectives:
1: Understand the value of risk-based assessments.
2: Understand how to vary the rigor of security activities based on risk.
3: Understand the value of tailored security design guidance.
(Source: RSA Conference USA 2018)
Briefing the board lessons learned from cisos and directorsPriyanka Aash
Communicating effectively with the board of directors can make or break a security program. Across 2016, John Pescatore and Alan Paller of SANS talked with dozens of CISOs and several members of corporate boards and distilled down a set of best practices and lessons learned. This session will present the findings from that effort, with lessons learned from real-world board sessions.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Information Security Architecture: Building Security Into Your OrganziationSeccuris Inc.
This document discusses building an information security architecture aligned with business objectives. It emphasizes establishing trust models and security domains to understand information flows and define appropriate controls at boundaries. This helps prioritize security efforts, automate baseline protections, and allow resources to focus on higher business risks. Defining controls based on trust and authority relationships can improve security posture while enabling productivity, innovation and business flexibility.
Why IT Systems Need to Conduct IT System Penetration Tests - Chris Gatford, N...IT Network marcus evans
The document summarizes an interview with Chris Gatford, Managing Director of HackLabs Pty Limited, about why penetration tests are important for organizations. Gatford advises that while companies perform vulnerability tests, CIOs must also conduct penetration tests to simulate an actual attack without risk. A penetration test exploits vulnerabilities to determine actual exposure, allowing CIOs to see what happens during an attack in a safe way and address issues. Gatford also notes that penetration tests require skilled practitioners to think like hackers to comprehensively compromise systems in a way automated tools cannot.
Discussion of information Security risks in current business and technology environments.
presented to ISSA Ireland conference attendees in Dublin on 12 May 2011.
"Thinking diffrent" about your information security strategyJason Clark
The document discusses the need for a new security strategy that focuses on data protection rather than infrastructure. It recommends evaluating current security spending and redirecting funds to intelligence-led approaches. A next generation security model is proposed that uses context awareness and data-centric policies to identify and contain advanced threats, including insider risks.
No more security empires - The ciso as an individual contributorPriyanka Aash
The staffing model for many mid-sized security programs is typically based on a highly centralized security team. While that provides a high degree of control, it can create inefficiencies and a lack of ownership relative to implementation of the program. This session will share the presenter’s experience as a CISO with no direct reports, leveraging people and budgets across the entire company.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
A brief overview of the key decision-makers in the security solution buying process.
Who are the decision-makers in the security solution purchase process?
What are their roles, goals, metrics, and challenges?
What resonates with them?
The case of the Western Region Municipality, Abu Dhabi was presented at the CISO Asia Summit in Singapore (2014). This presentation showcases both the ADSIC Information Security Programme and how the government entities benefit from such strategic initiative in Information Security.
Security has risen to the top of the agenda amongst most C-suite executives and boards of directors today. Rapidly evolving security threats pose an ongoing, central challenge, as companies and governments face an increasingly sophisticated threat environment.
Accenture collaborated with the Ponemon Institute, LLC to explore the success factors of companies that demonstrated measurable improvement in security effectiveness over a period of two years. Find out how leapfrog organizations are improving their security posture and more quickly detecting security threats.
The Perspective of Today's Information Security LeaderRavila White
This document discusses the perspectives and attributes necessary for information security leaders to effectively integrate security into the business. It argues that the traditional "Tao of information security" approach is outdated, and that today's security leaders must take a multi-dimensional perspective that incorporates business acumen, financial savvy, risk visioning, and sustainability. The document outlines these leadership attributes and provides examples of how security professionals can address business needs and priorities from an information security lens.
Sans 20 CSC: Connecting Security to the Business MissionTripwire
The document summarizes Katherine Brocklehurst's presentation at the 2013 SANS CSC Summit where she discussed the role and challenges of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Some key points included that the CISO needs business experience and the ability to communicate security issues to executives in a way that shows relevance to the organization's mission. The presentation also discussed using metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into the organization's security posture and risks across different business units and technical platforms to report to various stakeholders.
The four horsemen of IT project doom -- kappelmanLeon Kappelman
Based on a in-depth study, this short paper explains how to spot and what to do about the early warning signs of IT project failure and the four horseman of IT project doom. IT project failure is not a technology problem, it's a management problem rooted in people and process weaknesses. Anyone with eyes can see these early warning signs.
A review of the "lessons learned" in establishing a CISO/CSO role in two different organizations. The things that security folks DON\'T tell you...
The document summarizes a career talk on security risk careers given by four professionals with CISSP and other certifications. They discussed topics like IT risk management roles and responsibilities, common career paths, necessary experience and education, and tips for breaking into the field. The presenters also described their own backgrounds and day-to-day work in areas like risk analysis, vendor assessments, and managing technology and business risks.
Learn from the experts! Tune into this webinar to hear Doug Copley, Deputy CISO/Security & Privacy Strategist for Forcepoint, talk about What It Takes to be a CISO in 2017: expectations, challenges, partnerships, the roadmap,critical activities and more.
The document discusses the challenges of hiring the right Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for financial services firms. It notes that the CISO role is still evolving and there is no consensus on the required qualifications. It recommends that firms clarify the CISO role and their security needs by making cybersecurity a board-level priority, assessing their current security posture and vulnerabilities, and evaluating their security culture. Taking these steps will help firms define the right profile for their next CISO candidate.
This white paper discusses the challenges of hiring the right Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and provides recommendations to improve the hiring process. It notes that the CISO role is still evolving and most executives do not fully understand the role's responsibilities. It recommends that companies clarify the CISO role by making cybersecurity a board-level priority, assessing current security strengths and weaknesses, and evaluating organizational security culture to identify needed CISO skills. Taking these steps will help companies define CISO job requirements and find candidates best suited to their specific cybersecurity needs.
Less tech more talk the future of the ciso rolePriyanka Aash
As technology’s role in business success increases, so does the importance of cybersecurity. This session will discuss how the role of the CISO is evolving from a technical position to a business-focused position, and the business and communication skills that will become critical.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Scaling an Application Security Program at the IMF: A Case StudyPriyanka Aash
The IMF and Aspect Security (now part of EY) created a risk-based assurance process to build the IMF’s application security program from the ground up. Presenters will share experiences in scaling from the occasional review of a few applications to providing assurance across our portfolio of applications. The session will discuss how to provide targeted training, tailored design guidance and risk-based assessment activities.
Learning Objectives:
1: Understand the value of risk-based assessments.
2: Understand how to vary the rigor of security activities based on risk.
3: Understand the value of tailored security design guidance.
(Source: RSA Conference USA 2018)
Briefing the board lessons learned from cisos and directorsPriyanka Aash
Communicating effectively with the board of directors can make or break a security program. Across 2016, John Pescatore and Alan Paller of SANS talked with dozens of CISOs and several members of corporate boards and distilled down a set of best practices and lessons learned. This session will present the findings from that effort, with lessons learned from real-world board sessions.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
Information Security Architecture: Building Security Into Your OrganziationSeccuris Inc.
This document discusses building an information security architecture aligned with business objectives. It emphasizes establishing trust models and security domains to understand information flows and define appropriate controls at boundaries. This helps prioritize security efforts, automate baseline protections, and allow resources to focus on higher business risks. Defining controls based on trust and authority relationships can improve security posture while enabling productivity, innovation and business flexibility.
Why IT Systems Need to Conduct IT System Penetration Tests - Chris Gatford, N...IT Network marcus evans
The document summarizes an interview with Chris Gatford, Managing Director of HackLabs Pty Limited, about why penetration tests are important for organizations. Gatford advises that while companies perform vulnerability tests, CIOs must also conduct penetration tests to simulate an actual attack without risk. A penetration test exploits vulnerabilities to determine actual exposure, allowing CIOs to see what happens during an attack in a safe way and address issues. Gatford also notes that penetration tests require skilled practitioners to think like hackers to comprehensively compromise systems in a way automated tools cannot.
Discussion of information Security risks in current business and technology environments.
presented to ISSA Ireland conference attendees in Dublin on 12 May 2011.
"Thinking diffrent" about your information security strategyJason Clark
The document discusses the need for a new security strategy that focuses on data protection rather than infrastructure. It recommends evaluating current security spending and redirecting funds to intelligence-led approaches. A next generation security model is proposed that uses context awareness and data-centric policies to identify and contain advanced threats, including insider risks.
No more security empires - The ciso as an individual contributorPriyanka Aash
The staffing model for many mid-sized security programs is typically based on a highly centralized security team. While that provides a high degree of control, it can create inefficiencies and a lack of ownership relative to implementation of the program. This session will share the presenter’s experience as a CISO with no direct reports, leveraging people and budgets across the entire company.
(Source : RSA Conference USA 2017)
A brief overview of the key decision-makers in the security solution buying process.
Who are the decision-makers in the security solution purchase process?
What are their roles, goals, metrics, and challenges?
What resonates with them?
The case of the Western Region Municipality, Abu Dhabi was presented at the CISO Asia Summit in Singapore (2014). This presentation showcases both the ADSIC Information Security Programme and how the government entities benefit from such strategic initiative in Information Security.
Security has risen to the top of the agenda amongst most C-suite executives and boards of directors today. Rapidly evolving security threats pose an ongoing, central challenge, as companies and governments face an increasingly sophisticated threat environment.
Accenture collaborated with the Ponemon Institute, LLC to explore the success factors of companies that demonstrated measurable improvement in security effectiveness over a period of two years. Find out how leapfrog organizations are improving their security posture and more quickly detecting security threats.
This document discusses security automation through SDN and NFV. It begins with an overview of security challenges from a service provider perspective, such as growing traffic and threats. It then discusses how SDN can automate and accelerate DDoS mitigation by redirecting traffic. The document outlines Cisco's Firepower 9300 platform for integrated security services and its use with Radware virtual DDoS protection. It also discusses how the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure automates security policy and service chains in the data center.
This document discusses how security can enable business through mobility. It outlines how businesses have evolved to leverage mobile capabilities across various industries like banking, airlines, retail, and healthcare. The document then discusses how Samsung Business Services can help CIOs and CISOs develop a mobile strategy with key elements like establishing clear roles and ownership, focusing on user experience, developing a roadmap, and ensuring end-to-end security as mobility and IoT expand. It emphasizes establishing a foundation of device and application security to protect information and manage risks as businesses innovate and transform with mobile technologies.
The document discusses managing cyber security across enterprises, specifically in oil and gas. It notes that 76% of organizations report an increase in sophistication of cyber attacks against infrastructure. The energy industry experiences 53% of cyber incidents, posing challenges as industrial control systems have a longer lifespan than enterprise systems and require more consideration of security during implementation. The presentation recommends a risk-based, defense-in-depth approach to security including network segmentation to help mitigate risks across an organization, though risks cannot be eliminated entirely given growing hacker knowledge and more sophisticated attacks.
The evolving threats and the challenges of the modern CISOisc2-hellenic
This document summarizes a presentation given by Gerasimos Moschonas on the evolving threats facing CISOs and the challenges they face. It discusses how threats are becoming more advanced as attacks grow more aggressive and attackers become more professional. It also examines how the role of CISO has evolved from an IT security administrator to an independent and strategic role responsible for information security governance. Specific threats discussed include big data, the internet of things, cybercrime, social engineering, mobility, and an increasingly regulated environment. The challenges for CISOs are aligning security and business strategies, reducing risks to an acceptable level while protecting the business brand, and preparing for security incidents.
The document discusses API security fundamentals and how to effectively secure APIs. It notes that many past API breaches were due to a lack of authentication on APIs, no rate limiting of requests, and other basic security issues. It emphasizes that every system with a URI has an API and outlines steps like applying authentication, authorization, rate limiting, validating requests to prevent attacks. The document argues that APIs with well-defined contracts that specify URIs, input/output formats and authentication models are easier to securely implement and test compared to more complex, dynamic APIs.
The AWS cloud infrastructure has been architected to be one of the most flexible and secure cloud computing environments available today. In this session, we’ll provide a practical understanding of the assurance programs that AWS provides; such as HIPAA, FedRAMP(SM), PCI DSS Level 1, MPAA, and many others. We’ll also address the types of business solutions that these certifications enable you to deploy on the AWS Cloud, as well as the tools and services AWS makes available to customers to secure and manage their resources.
Jon Brendsel is the VP of Products at Iconic Brands. According to a February 2012 report, PBS and PBS Kids video apps for iPad had over 30 million unique visitors and 57 million visits per month across all platforms. The mobile apps accounted for 115,000 unique visitors per day, 310,000 daily app opens, 27% of hours watched and 40% of video streams. The mobile video architecture utilized 5 AWS accounts, over 300 EC2 machines, ELBs, RDS databases, EBS volumes, S3 buckets, and CloudFront distributions.
The AWS cloud infrastructure has been architected to be one of the most flexible and secure cloud computing environments available today. In this session, we’ll provide a practical understanding of the assurance programs that AWS provides; such as HIPAA, FedRAMP(SM), PCI DSS Level 1, MPAA, and many others. We’ll also address the types of business solutions that these certifications enable you to deploy on the AWS Cloud, as well as the tools and services AWS makes available to customers to secure and manage their resources.
Este documento presenta diferentes opciones de redes virtuales en AWS como EC2-Classic, VPC predeterminado y VPC, y describe cómo implementar conectividades privadas y públicas entre una VPC y un centro de datos corporativo local utilizando VPN y AWS Direct Connect. También cubre temas como interconexión de VPC, redes mejoradas y la solución Level 3 Cloud Connect para conectividad a AWS.
McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is moving to the cloud to enable global delivery, improve user experience, reduce costs, streamline processes, and automate operations. When selecting a partner, MHE required deep AWS expertise, a global delivery footprint, the ability to meet hybrid infrastructure requirements, strong security and resiliency, and superior support. MHE's cloud journey involved planning applications for AWS, designing a hybrid architecture, and going live globally while testing extensively and establishing governance over the hybrid environment. Ongoing management includes a cloud management portal, analytics, and governance/change control.
As cloud services deployment matures in the enterprise, the emphasis has moved from deploying infrastructure as a service towards a model of delivering business services in a “SaaS-like” manner. How can organizations succeed in building hybrid technology models which effectively leverage AWS to deliver business services transparently to customers? In this presentation, we will discuss how use AWS and CSC to develop business services starting with hybrid IT, moving toward robust test and development strategies for enterprise applications, and finally providing a true “SaaS-like” experience for business users and customers alike.
Craig Stires, Head of Big Data and Analytics, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Dan Angelucci, Chief Technology Officer - Asia, Middle East and Africa, CSC
The AWS Mobile SDKs can be used to build thick-client architecture apps for iOS and Android devices. An overview of the SDKs will be presented as well as demos and code for storing data in Amazon S3 and sending emails via Amazon SES. You will also learn how to manage AWS credentials in a mobile environment.
Digital media companies face challenges managing infrastructure, rapidly scaling for new formats or devices, and reducing costs. The AWS cloud provides tools to help with media management including ingest, storage, encoding and packaging. It also offers media publishing services such as analytics, websites, streaming, databases and search. AWS provides security, high availability, and flexibility to help digital media companies focus on content instead of infrastructure.
(SPOT211) State of the Union: Amazon Compute Services | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Join Peter De Santis, Vice President of Amazon Compute Services, and Matt Garman, Vice President of Amazon EC2 as they share a ''behind the scenes'' look at the evolution of compute at AWS. You hear about the drivers behind the innovations we've introduced, and learn how we've scaled our compute services to meet dramatic usage growth.
23 October 2013 - AWS 201 - A Walk through the AWS Cloud: Introduction to Ama...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Redshift is the new data warehouse service from Amazon Web Services. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing data sets from a few hundred gigabytes to over a petabyte at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. In this webinar, we will take a detailed look at Redshift, including a live demonstration. This webinar is ideal for anyone looking to gain deeper insight into their data, without the usual challenges of time, cost and effort.
This session will begin with an introduction to non-relational (NoSQL) databases and compare them with relational (SQL) databases. We will also explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. Learn the fundamentals of DynamoDB and see the new DynamoDB console first-hand as we discuss common use cases and benefits of this high-performance key-value and JSON document store.
AWS Cloud Kata 2013 | Singapore - Opening Keynote: Running Lean & Scaling Fas...Amazon Web Services
The document discusses principles for 21st century application architectures. It advocates designing systems as small, loosely coupled modules that can scale independently. Architectures should be automated, treat resources as programmable entities, and focus on business goals over fixed resources. Designs should also emphasize resilience through techniques like deploying across availability zones, continuous integration/deployment, and assuming failures will occur. Instrumentation, metrics, and logs are important for monitoring systems and driving decisions with data.
Building a Transformational Partner Business for the Enterprise – Stephen Orb...Amazon Web Services
The document discusses strategies for building a transformational partnership with enterprises for AWS. It outlines typical enterprise adoption paths, with innovators initially wanting control and understanding before complexity increases. It then discusses the need for expanded sales capacity to meet customer demand. The rest of the document provides guidance on engaging with enterprise CIOs, including understanding their agenda, background, company financials, existing IT infrastructure, and key stakeholders. It also outlines common stages in an enterprise's adoption of AWS, from gaining executive sponsorship to establishing cloud-first standards.
AppSphere 15 - The Future of Enterprise ITAppDynamics
Amazon Web Services pioneered cloud computing in 2008. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what enterprises have done to meaningfully adopt the cloud to benefit their businesses. This session will present a pattern that has emerged, organizationally and architecturally, in enterprises who are using the cloud to meet their business objectives. With practical guidance, and insight into how AWS and our partners can help you deliver results, attendees will gain an actionable model for accelerating their organization’s success.
Stephen Orban, Global Head of Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Leveraging the AWS Sales Methodology and Partner Best Practices aws-partner-s...Amazon Web Services
The AWS outcome-based approach to sales is customer obsessed and supports the new reality of IT. Learn how to align effectively with AWS sales and help customers accelerate their cloud adoption. AWS and Partners will also share best practices and lessons learned.
Amazon Web Services pioneered cloud computing in 2008. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what enterprises have done to meaningfully adopt the cloud to benefit their businesses. This session will present a pattern that has emerged, organizationally and architecturally, in enterprises who are using the cloud to meet their business objectives. With practical guidance, and insight into how AWS and our partners can help you deliver results, attendees will gain an actionable model for accelerating their organization’s success.
Amazon Web Services pioneered cloud computing in 2008. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what enterprises have done to meaningfully adopt the cloud to benefit their businesses. This session will present a pattern that has emerged, organizationally and architecturally, in enterprises who are using the cloud to meet their business objectives. With practical guidance, and insight into how AWS and our partners can help you deliver results, attendees will gain an actionable model for accelerating their organization’s success.
The document discusses creating a cloud first standard by transitioning IT operations to AWS. It outlines how this can free up 30% of resources for business needs. It provides examples of traditional vs cloud-focused IT maps and organization structures. Key steps include getting executive support, experimenting, educating staff, establishing a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid models, and engaging partners to create a cloud-first standard.
Amazon Web Services pioneered cloud computing in 2008. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what enterprises have done to meaningfully adopt the cloud to benefit their businesses. This session will present a pattern that has emerged, organizationally and architecturally, in enterprises who are using the cloud to meet their business objectives. With practical guidance, and insight into how AWS and our partners can help you deliver results, attendees will gain an actionable model for accelerating their organization’s success.
1) The document discusses strategies for adopting a cloud-first approach, including establishing executive sponsorship, experimenting with cloud technologies, educating staff, creating a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid cloud models, establishing a cloud-first standard, engaging partners, and making cloud adoption a reality.
2) It presents traditional IT organization structures and how these can be adapted by adopting AWS services for different functions like infrastructure, applications, security, and end user computing.
3) The key steps outlined are gaining executive support, starting with small experiments, educating staff on cloud benefits and technologies, and establishing centers of excellence and processes to guide ongoing cloud adoption.
The document discusses creating a "Cloud 1st Standard" by transitioning from a traditional IT model to a cloud-focused model. It outlines mapping traditional IT roles and functions to cloud-focused roles and functions. It then describes some of the key steps organizations can take in their journey to adopting a cloud-first approach, including gaining executive sponsorship, experimenting with the cloud, educating staff, establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence, adopting hybrid cloud strategies, and establishing a cloud-first standard. The overall message is that every organization's journey to the cloud is unique but these steps are commonly seen along the way.
Enterprises that are embracing cloud computing are interested in driving fundamental changes in their business so they can compete in the future. IT transformation, enabled by cloud adoption, is a key component of this future success—from tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increased agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to support transformation in your organization.
Atlanta Summit - Future of Enterprise IT (1)Doug Menefee
The document discusses how enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing. It describes how companies have transitioned from having most IT resources on-premise to having the majority hosted in the cloud. This has allowed companies to scale rapidly, innovate faster, and grow revenue and customers served significantly. The document outlines the steps enterprises typically take in their cloud adoption journey, including gaining executive support, experimenting with cloud services, establishing a cloud center of excellence, and developing a cloud-first strategy and standard. It discusses how the cloud is transforming IT organizations and allows them to focus more on strategic priorities rather than infrastructure management.
The document discusses how cloud computing is transforming enterprise IT by allowing businesses to focus on their core operations while improving security. It describes how thousands of enterprises are migrating their infrastructure and applications to the cloud. It provides examples of traditional IT organizational structures and how they can evolve to a cloud-first model with a Cloud Center of Excellence to manage the cloud migration. It also outlines common strategies and steps involved in migrating applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
1) The document discusses how cloud computing is transforming enterprise IT by allowing companies to focus on their core business while improving security and speed of innovation.
2) It provides examples of how companies like General Electric and D2L have benefited from migrating services and workloads to AWS to gain flexibility, scalability, and cost savings.
3) The migration process involves establishing a cloud center of excellence, identifying applications to move, and using AWS services and tools to help easily transfer workloads and data to the cloud.
Creating a Cloud Standard - London Summit Enteprise Track RePlayAmazon Web Services
Meaningful cloud adoption is not migrating a few applications out of a datacenter or deploying websites easier. It’s a fundamental shift in how technology can better align to the core mission of your business, which likely isn’t building and maintaining data centers. Since 2008, Amazon Web Services has pioneered cloud computing, and we’ve learned a lot along the way about what makes cloud adoption deliver benefits broadly across a company. This session will present the common steps, both technically and organizationally, of enterprises who have completed significant shifts t cloud in a short period of time. With practical guidance, and insight into where AWS and our partners can help solve adoption problems, attendees will gain an actionable model for structuring their path to the cloud.
AWS Enterprise Summit London 2015 | Creating a Cloud First StandardAmazon Web Services
This document discusses creating a "cloud-first" standard for an organization's IT strategy. It outlines how traditional IT maps can be transformed by adopting AWS services for different functions. The key steps in a cloud adoption journey include getting executive sponsorship, experimenting with AWS services, educating staff, creating a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid cloud models, and establishing a cloud-first standard to guide technology decisions.
This document discusses how cloud computing is transforming enterprise IT by allowing companies to focus on their core business. It provides an overview of traditional on-premises IT structures and how companies are migrating to cloud-first models using AWS. The summary discusses establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence to lead the migration effort and building hybrid cloud architectures to break dependencies on legacy systems over time.
In this session you will hear how some of Australia's largest organisations such as Qantas and Origin Energy have approached their cloud adoption journey. You will also learn the successful patterns of adoption being followed by Enterprises to deliver the best value from the AWS platform.
Speaker: Max Kaye, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
(Diapositivas de presentación son en inglés.)
El uso del cloud en entornos empresariales representa una gran oportunidad. En esta sesión hablaremos de como grandes corporaciones están definiendo las mejores practicas para organizar y acelerar la adopción de la nube en entornos complejos en colaboración con AWS.
Enterprises that are embracing cloud computing are interested in driving fundamental changes in their business so they can compete in the future. IT transformation, enabled by cloud adoption, is a key component of this future success—from tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increased agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption, and we discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to support transformation in your organization.
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Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
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La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
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Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
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AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
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Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
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Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
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Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
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In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
1) The document discusses building a minimum viable product (MVP) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2) It provides an example of an MVP for an omni-channel messenger platform that was built from 2017 to connect ecommerce stores to customers via web chat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and other channels.
3) The founder discusses how they started with an MVP in 2017 with 200 ecommerce stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and have since expanded to over 5000 clients across Southeast Asia using AWS for scaling.
This document discusses pitch decks and fundraising materials. It explains that venture capitalists will typically spend only 3 minutes and 44 seconds reviewing a pitch deck. Therefore, the deck needs to tell a compelling story to grab their attention. It also provides tips on tailoring different types of decks for different purposes, such as creating a concise 1-2 page teaser, a presentation deck for pitching in-person, and a more detailed read-only or fundraising deck. The document stresses the importance of including key information like the problem, solution, product, traction, market size, plans, team, and ask.
This document discusses building serverless web applications using AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and Amplify. It provides an overview of each service and how they can work together to create a scalable, secure and cost-effective serverless application stack without having to manage servers or infrastructure. Key services covered include API Gateway for hosting APIs, Lambda for backend logic, DynamoDB for database needs, S3 for static content, and Amplify for frontend hosting and continuous deployment.
This document provides tips for fundraising from startup founders Roland Yau and Sze Lok Chan. It discusses generating competition to create urgency for investors, fundraising in parallel rather than sequentially, having a clear fundraising narrative focused on what you do and why it's compelling, and prioritizing relationships with people over firms. It also notes how the pandemic has changed fundraising, with examples of deals done virtually during this time. The tips emphasize being fully prepared before fundraising and cultivating connections with investors in advance.
AWS_HK_StartupDay_Building Interactive websites while automating for efficien...Amazon Web Services
This document discusses Amazon's machine learning services for building conversational interfaces and extracting insights from unstructured text and audio. It describes Amazon Lex for creating chatbots, Amazon Comprehend for natural language processing tasks like entity extraction and sentiment analysis, and how they can be used together for applications like intelligent call centers and content analysis. Pre-trained APIs simplify adding machine learning to apps without requiring ML expertise.
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
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The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
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Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
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📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
6. Let’s talk about the CIO…
The CIO is a business executive.
IT is their contribution to the business.
7. The CIO is a business executive
• Mission is to solve problems for
the business, not buy
technology
• They became a CIO through
hard work, ambition, and help
• Partners understand and listen
• Partners help them solve
problems and make them
successful
8. Executive team
Understand executive team motivations, influence,
and pressures put on CIO
• Where does CIO report?
• Global or business unit matrixes?
• CEO - competition, innovation, costs
• CMO - BI, analytics, brand launches/microsites
• CFO - costs, opex vs. capex, the street
• CRO - product development/monetization
• Lieutenants in other departments, particularly Finance
and Marketing
• Where is there shadow IT?
9. Company financials
Never talk to an IT executive until you
understand their financial positioning
• Revenue/profit shrinking or growing
• Price sensitivity
• Public vs. private pressures are different
• IT budget will range from 2-10% of
revenue, product development is a wild
card
10. Staffing strategy
Never talk to an IT executive until you
understand their staffing strategy
• Size of staff, how they’re organized
• Staff as a percentage of IT budget (multiply
by $120,000-$180,000 depending on size of
industry/location)
• Propensity to outsource
11. IT map - Traditional IT
E-mail, Productivity,
Collaboration, HR,
Finance, ERP
Desktop Support, Device
Management, Telephony,
IT Support
Information Security, CISO
Encryption, Key Management, Identity
Management, Firewalls, IDS, DDoS
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
Digital Products, Brand
Websites, Mobile
Applications, Point of Sale
Systems, Commerce
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure Servers, Storage, Networking, Databases,
Data Warehousing, Data Centers
12. IT map - Traditional IT
E-mail, Productivity,
Collaboration, HR,
Finance, ERP
Desktop Support, Device
Management, Telephony,
IT Support
Information Security, CISO
Encryption, Key Management, Identity
Management, Firewalls, IDS, DDoS
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
Digital Products, Brand
Websites, Mobile
Applications, Point of Sale
Systems, Commerce
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure Servers, Storage, Networking, Databases,
Data Warehousing, Data Centers
13. IT map - Traditional IT with AWS
Amazon WorkMail,
Amazon WorkDocs, AWS
Marketplace, AWS
Directory Service, SaaS
Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon
AppStream, AWS Marketplace,
AWS Mobile Services, SaaS
Information Security, CISO
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
AWS CloudHSM, AWS Key Management
Service (AWS KMS), Security Groups, AWS
Marketplace
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS
Lambda, Amazon SQS,
Amazon SNS, Amazon Mobile
Analytics, Amazon CloudFront
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon
VPC, Amazon Direct Connect, Directory Service,
IAM, AWS Service Catalog
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
14. IT map - Traditional IT with AWS
Amazon WorkMail,
Amazon WorkDocs, AWS
Marketplace, AWS
Directory Service, SaaS
Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon
AppStream, AWS Marketplace,
AWS Mobile Services, SaaS
Information Security, CISO
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
AWS CloudHSM, AWS Key Management
Service (AWS KMS), Security Groups, AWS
Marketplace
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS
Lambda, Amazon SQS,
Amazon SNS, Amazon Mobile
Analytics, Amazon CloudFront
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon
VPC, Amazon Direct Connect, Directory Service,
IAM, AWS Service Catalog
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
15. IT map - A cloud-first tomorrow
Information Security, CISO
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
DevOps, VP DevOps
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Customers need partners to get there
Amazon WorkMail, Amazon
WorkDocs, AWS Marketplace,
AWS Directory Service, SaaS
Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon
AppStream, AWS Marketplace,
AWS Mobile Services, SaaS
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
AWS CloudHSM, AWS Key Management
Service (AWS KMS), Security Groups, AWS
Marketplace
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS
Lambda, Amazon SQS,
Amazon SNS, Amazon Mobile
Analytics, Amazon CloudFront
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon
VPC, Amazon Direct Connect, Directory Service,
IAM, AWS Service Catalog
16. Enterprise IT map - Considerations
• AWS can fit in anywhere - always be piloting.
AWS can help you (i.e. POC programs)
• Know where security reports
• How centralized is infrastructure
• How much autonomy do application groups
have
• Duplicated application teams will probably
mean more autonomy
17. Enterprise IT map - Infrastructure
• Key long term relationship
• DevOps or cloud division?
• Sentiment on existing private cloud?
Where are supporters?
• Win them over, carefully call out blockers
to CIO
18. Enterprise IT map - Identify key lieutenants
• Determine where most time needs to be spent:
• VP’s <$1B revenue
• Directors $1B+ revenue
• Who does CIO trust?
• Look for up and coming stars
• Have something new and meaningful when
going to CIO
• When possible, get lieutenants to advocate
19. The CIO’s background
Provides clues to their motivations
• Developer
• Infrastructure
• Finance
• Business
• Tenure (next)
20. The CIO’s tenure
Provides clues to their
appetite for change
• Tenure with company
• In the CIO role at that company
• In the CIO role
A newly minted CIO will be looking to
make their mark
21. Existing legacy
The older the company, the more legacy
concerns and the longer their journey
• 70’s-80’s – mainframes
• 90’s – heavy licensing and client server
• 00’s – outsourcing and frameworks
• 10’s – SaaS
When was the last big transformation?
Was it successful?
22. Far better security posturing in the cloud than on-premises
AWS Security
approach
Size of AWS
Security team
Visibility
PEOPLE & PROCESS
SYSTEM
NETWORK
PHYSICAL
Security
23. Each customer journey is unique, but here’s what
we see along the way…
Executive
Sponsorship
Experiment
Educate Staff
Making it Real
24. Each customer journey is unique, but here’s what
we see along the way…
Executive
Sponsorship
Experiment
Educate Staff
Making it Real
Cloud Center of
Excellence
Hybrid
Adoption
Cloud-First
Standard
Engage
Partners