1. The document discusses 10 reasons why organizations may be ready for a secure managed cloud service, including wanting built-in security capabilities, customized service, and a proactive partner.
2. It describes what a managed cloud service entails and differentiates secure managed cloud services from typical cloud services. Secure managed cloud services take on more security responsibilities.
3. The best secure managed cloud services provide benefits like 24/7 monitoring and maintenance of cloud workloads, reduced costs, faster deployment times, unique capabilities, lower risk, and assistance with compliance requirements.
Case Study - Currency from the Cloud: Security & Compliance for Payment ProviderArmor
Steve Roderick, CEO of gotoBilling, differentiates his end-to-end software payment service in a highly competitive marketplace. How? He trusts a formula that’s a critical component of every business. Sound security — particularly when properly layered — helps organizations defend against breach, protect their brands, ensure compliance and avoid fines. And it’s a message that’s resonating with customers and winning business.
A successful cyber attack on a plant’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) can be catastrophic. It can impact the plant’s operations, finances, damage reputation and even threaten lives. A resilient cyber security programme is essential in order to mitigate against potential cyber attacks. To help ensure that your plant is fully prepared to defend against potential cyber attacks, we provide a range of ICS Cyber Security services, each customised for your plant’s unique requirements, based on the latest international cyber security standards and best practice. Pöyry is active in designing, assessing and supervising the implementation of ICS cyber security programmes to both operating and greenfield facilities.
Cloud Security: Limitations of Cloud Security Groups and Flow LogsPriyanka Aash
Cloud Security Groups are the firewalls of the cloud. They are built-in and provide basic access control functionality as part of the shared responsibility model. However, Cloud Security Groups do not provide the same protection or functionality that enterprises have come to expect with on-premises deployments. In this talk we will discuss the top cloud risks in 2020, why perimeters are a concept of the past and how in the world of no perimitiers do Cloud Security groups, the "Cloud FIrewalls", fit it. We will practically explore Cloud Security Group limitations across different cloud setups from a single vNet to multi-cloud
Service Organizational Control (SOC 2) Compliance - KloudlearnKloudLearn
Service Organizational Control (SOC 2) Compliance reports are designed to ensure that if you are a service provider handling customer data, it will be transmitted, stored, and processed in a completely confidential way.
Case Study - Currency from the Cloud: Security & Compliance for Payment ProviderArmor
Steve Roderick, CEO of gotoBilling, differentiates his end-to-end software payment service in a highly competitive marketplace. How? He trusts a formula that’s a critical component of every business. Sound security — particularly when properly layered — helps organizations defend against breach, protect their brands, ensure compliance and avoid fines. And it’s a message that’s resonating with customers and winning business.
A successful cyber attack on a plant’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) can be catastrophic. It can impact the plant’s operations, finances, damage reputation and even threaten lives. A resilient cyber security programme is essential in order to mitigate against potential cyber attacks. To help ensure that your plant is fully prepared to defend against potential cyber attacks, we provide a range of ICS Cyber Security services, each customised for your plant’s unique requirements, based on the latest international cyber security standards and best practice. Pöyry is active in designing, assessing and supervising the implementation of ICS cyber security programmes to both operating and greenfield facilities.
Cloud Security: Limitations of Cloud Security Groups and Flow LogsPriyanka Aash
Cloud Security Groups are the firewalls of the cloud. They are built-in and provide basic access control functionality as part of the shared responsibility model. However, Cloud Security Groups do not provide the same protection or functionality that enterprises have come to expect with on-premises deployments. In this talk we will discuss the top cloud risks in 2020, why perimeters are a concept of the past and how in the world of no perimitiers do Cloud Security groups, the "Cloud FIrewalls", fit it. We will practically explore Cloud Security Group limitations across different cloud setups from a single vNet to multi-cloud
Service Organizational Control (SOC 2) Compliance - KloudlearnKloudLearn
Service Organizational Control (SOC 2) Compliance reports are designed to ensure that if you are a service provider handling customer data, it will be transmitted, stored, and processed in a completely confidential way.
Aujas Cyber Security is a global cyber security services company consistently recognized by NASSCOM, Deloitte and Gartner for its unique cyber security capabilities. With a growing workforce of 400+ security experts, Aujas Networks has served more than 1500 clients across the globe.
Cybersecurity frameworks globally and saudi arabiaFaysal Ghauri
My second paper on Cybersecurity frameworks and how Saudi Arabia is forming. This paper has been published by the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) in April 2021, Vol. 19 No. 4 Publication.
AWS Security Best Practices in a Zero Trust Security Model - DEM08 - Toronto ...Amazon Web Services
Zero trust security is quickly rising as a preferred alternative to traditional security approaches. The key enabling technology underlying the zero trust security approach is next-gen access which combines the critical capabilities of such technologies as identity as a service (IDaaS), enterprise mobility management (EMM), and privileged access management (PAM). In this session, we highlight AWS security best practices in a zero trust security model. Specifically, we explore securing the AWS root account, controlling access to the AWS Management Console, and the AWS Command Line Interface, and managing developer access to Amazon EC2 instances and containerized applications that run on them.
5 Ways to Get Even More from Your IBM Security QRadar Investment in 2016IBM Security
View ondemand webinar: https://securityintelligence.com/events/qradar-investment-2016/
Helping you stay ahead of cybercriminals means our work at IBM Security is never done. With data coming from every direction to collect, you need real time and historical analytics to discover anomalistic conditions that often provide the early warning signs of an attacker’s presence. Join us to hear about new features in IBM Security QRadar that can provide you with better visibility into what’s happening on your network and new integrations that will help you multiply your investment and help speed your remediation efforts.
Cyber Security - Maintaining Operational Control of Critical ServicesDave Reeves
This document has been developed to assist organisations with some of the considerations when building and operating critical services from an ICS cyber security perspective. The next whitepaper in the series will focus on securing critical services and the inter dependencies between cyber and physical security.
The session will be focusing how cloud-native security platform can continuously discovers workloads, identifies risk, and enforces security policies in any multi-cloud environment. Additionally it will also cover the Automated policy generation through agent-less security controls makes protecting data and applications the easiest thing to do in the cloud.
The Speaker of the session will be Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer, Shield X, USA
Dr. Ratinder leads ShieldX and its mission as its central pivot point. Drawing from a career as a successful serial entrepreneur and corporate leader, he brings his unique blend of business acumen, industry network and deep technical knowledge.
At his previous start-ups, Internet Junction, Webstacks and Reconnex he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of the Mobile and Network Security Business Units. His knowledge of innovation and emerging trends in networking, network security, and data-loss prevention are derived from years of industry experience. Dr. Ahuja holds a BS in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Thapar University, in India, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. Dr. Ahuja has been granted 61 patents for security-based technologies, and has presented in many public forums, including the Content Protection Summit, IC3, IEEE Computer Society, McAfee FOCUS, and the Cloud Expo.
Data security solutions_Baltics_IBM_QRadar_SIEM_Use_Cases_28.01.2014Andris Soroka
Presentation from "International Data Protection Day" IT Security seminary on 28th of January, 2014, organized by "Data Security Solutions", IBM Security Systems partner in the Baltic States.
The cloud offers simplified application development and delivery by providing infrastructure, platform and software services that are ready to use immediately. However, the major inhibitor for businesses has been concerns around security. IBM has simplified the typical method for approaching this problem. Whether you’re looking to employ infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS), use the framework below when designing your solution. Each platform comes with certain built-in security qualities and lets you use add-ons on top of the platform to secure each workload.
Disrupting the Malware Kill Chain - What's New from Palo Alto Networks.Scalar Decisions
Simon Wong and Chris Cram, Scalar security experts, discuss how Palo Alto Networks technology disrupts the entire malware kill chain. Attendees will also gain insight on flexible deployment options to better serve their mobile users, and how to get the most out of their Palo Alto Networks deployment.
Cloud summit demystifying cloud securityDavid De Vos
During this session we’ll cover the key solutions and steps to securing a cloud environment.
We’ll cover policy creation, security posture management & cybersecurity incident analysis. You’ll see how compliance is made easy in the cloud and how continuous monitoring works. We’ll explain how multi-cloud security works as well!
As we walk through the solutions, we’ll share some best practices and use cases from our experience.
7 Ways to Stay 7 Years Ahead of the ThreatIBM Security
With breach reports becoming a weekly, if not daily, occurrence, organizations need proactive security to protect themselves and their customers against the loss of sensitive data. Hear from IBM X-Force research and product experts on 7 types of behavioral based protection layered into network and endpoint security that can help your organization stay ahead of the threat. Our protection is so successful, in fact, that our IPS customer were protected from exploits of the recently disclosed Shellshock vulnerability seven years ahead of the threat.
The disappearing network perimeter mean organizations can no longer rely on traditional methods to secure their networks, and must plan for porous access to corporate assets and intellectual property. Deploying a simple intrusion prevention solution that relies in pattern matching is insufficient to identify malicious actors who can evade traditional protection strategies. By focusing on blocking the behavior of malware, rather than pattern matching against specific exploits, organizations are better protected with techniques like protocol analysis detection, shellcode heuristics, application layer heuristics, malicious communication prevention, and exploit chain disruption.
View the full on-demand webcast: http://securityintelligence.com/events/8-ways-stay-5-years-ahead-threat/#.VYxgB_lVhBf
Cyber Security For Organization Proposal Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Developing an attractive website for your business operations to generate more leads and profit for the company is no longer the only concern. There are various other factors in play. It is important to ensure that the website and software of your company are safe from any kind of malware. The main priority of any organization should be to build a defence system for its servers and data. Render your expert service to the clients and meet their requirements with this Cyber Security for Organization Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Utilize this PPT template to highlight your key deliverables such as uninterrupted server protection, secure organization information, network security, penetration testing, monitoring system vulnerabilities, and personnel training to avoid cyber attacks. Use this internet security PPT layout to talk about the whole process of project kick-off, planning, development, implementation, maintaining, and training for the cyber security services that your company adopts. Showcase the overall project cost that a client has to invest in availing your services as well as mention in detail the financial outlay according to each service and package. Grab the opportunity to educate your audience about the additional services that you provide like software development, cloud services, security, and networking by employing our electronic safeguard services PPT deck. Implement this visually-appealing security services PowerPoint theme to present an attractive business overview of your company and convey your mission, vision, objectives, and goals in an organized manner. Gain the trust of your clients by displaying your past achievements, awards, and client testimonials with this PPT design. You can take the assistance of this PowerPoint slide to inform the customer about your expertise in mobile app development, onsite developer, and business intelligence analytics. Download our ready-to-use computer security PPT graphic and promise the best security to your clients and make an everlasting impression on them. https://bit.ly/3fxyjMt
Aujas Cyber Security is a global cyber security services company consistently recognized by NASSCOM, Deloitte and Gartner for its unique cyber security capabilities. With a growing workforce of 400+ security experts, Aujas Networks has served more than 1500 clients across the globe.
Cybersecurity frameworks globally and saudi arabiaFaysal Ghauri
My second paper on Cybersecurity frameworks and how Saudi Arabia is forming. This paper has been published by the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) in April 2021, Vol. 19 No. 4 Publication.
AWS Security Best Practices in a Zero Trust Security Model - DEM08 - Toronto ...Amazon Web Services
Zero trust security is quickly rising as a preferred alternative to traditional security approaches. The key enabling technology underlying the zero trust security approach is next-gen access which combines the critical capabilities of such technologies as identity as a service (IDaaS), enterprise mobility management (EMM), and privileged access management (PAM). In this session, we highlight AWS security best practices in a zero trust security model. Specifically, we explore securing the AWS root account, controlling access to the AWS Management Console, and the AWS Command Line Interface, and managing developer access to Amazon EC2 instances and containerized applications that run on them.
5 Ways to Get Even More from Your IBM Security QRadar Investment in 2016IBM Security
View ondemand webinar: https://securityintelligence.com/events/qradar-investment-2016/
Helping you stay ahead of cybercriminals means our work at IBM Security is never done. With data coming from every direction to collect, you need real time and historical analytics to discover anomalistic conditions that often provide the early warning signs of an attacker’s presence. Join us to hear about new features in IBM Security QRadar that can provide you with better visibility into what’s happening on your network and new integrations that will help you multiply your investment and help speed your remediation efforts.
Cyber Security - Maintaining Operational Control of Critical ServicesDave Reeves
This document has been developed to assist organisations with some of the considerations when building and operating critical services from an ICS cyber security perspective. The next whitepaper in the series will focus on securing critical services and the inter dependencies between cyber and physical security.
The session will be focusing how cloud-native security platform can continuously discovers workloads, identifies risk, and enforces security policies in any multi-cloud environment. Additionally it will also cover the Automated policy generation through agent-less security controls makes protecting data and applications the easiest thing to do in the cloud.
The Speaker of the session will be Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer, Shield X, USA
Dr. Ratinder leads ShieldX and its mission as its central pivot point. Drawing from a career as a successful serial entrepreneur and corporate leader, he brings his unique blend of business acumen, industry network and deep technical knowledge.
At his previous start-ups, Internet Junction, Webstacks and Reconnex he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of the Mobile and Network Security Business Units. His knowledge of innovation and emerging trends in networking, network security, and data-loss prevention are derived from years of industry experience. Dr. Ahuja holds a BS in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Thapar University, in India, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. Dr. Ahuja has been granted 61 patents for security-based technologies, and has presented in many public forums, including the Content Protection Summit, IC3, IEEE Computer Society, McAfee FOCUS, and the Cloud Expo.
Data security solutions_Baltics_IBM_QRadar_SIEM_Use_Cases_28.01.2014Andris Soroka
Presentation from "International Data Protection Day" IT Security seminary on 28th of January, 2014, organized by "Data Security Solutions", IBM Security Systems partner in the Baltic States.
The cloud offers simplified application development and delivery by providing infrastructure, platform and software services that are ready to use immediately. However, the major inhibitor for businesses has been concerns around security. IBM has simplified the typical method for approaching this problem. Whether you’re looking to employ infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or software-as-a-service (SaaS), use the framework below when designing your solution. Each platform comes with certain built-in security qualities and lets you use add-ons on top of the platform to secure each workload.
Disrupting the Malware Kill Chain - What's New from Palo Alto Networks.Scalar Decisions
Simon Wong and Chris Cram, Scalar security experts, discuss how Palo Alto Networks technology disrupts the entire malware kill chain. Attendees will also gain insight on flexible deployment options to better serve their mobile users, and how to get the most out of their Palo Alto Networks deployment.
Cloud summit demystifying cloud securityDavid De Vos
During this session we’ll cover the key solutions and steps to securing a cloud environment.
We’ll cover policy creation, security posture management & cybersecurity incident analysis. You’ll see how compliance is made easy in the cloud and how continuous monitoring works. We’ll explain how multi-cloud security works as well!
As we walk through the solutions, we’ll share some best practices and use cases from our experience.
7 Ways to Stay 7 Years Ahead of the ThreatIBM Security
With breach reports becoming a weekly, if not daily, occurrence, organizations need proactive security to protect themselves and their customers against the loss of sensitive data. Hear from IBM X-Force research and product experts on 7 types of behavioral based protection layered into network and endpoint security that can help your organization stay ahead of the threat. Our protection is so successful, in fact, that our IPS customer were protected from exploits of the recently disclosed Shellshock vulnerability seven years ahead of the threat.
The disappearing network perimeter mean organizations can no longer rely on traditional methods to secure their networks, and must plan for porous access to corporate assets and intellectual property. Deploying a simple intrusion prevention solution that relies in pattern matching is insufficient to identify malicious actors who can evade traditional protection strategies. By focusing on blocking the behavior of malware, rather than pattern matching against specific exploits, organizations are better protected with techniques like protocol analysis detection, shellcode heuristics, application layer heuristics, malicious communication prevention, and exploit chain disruption.
View the full on-demand webcast: http://securityintelligence.com/events/8-ways-stay-5-years-ahead-threat/#.VYxgB_lVhBf
Cyber Security For Organization Proposal Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Developing an attractive website for your business operations to generate more leads and profit for the company is no longer the only concern. There are various other factors in play. It is important to ensure that the website and software of your company are safe from any kind of malware. The main priority of any organization should be to build a defence system for its servers and data. Render your expert service to the clients and meet their requirements with this Cyber Security for Organization Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides. Utilize this PPT template to highlight your key deliverables such as uninterrupted server protection, secure organization information, network security, penetration testing, monitoring system vulnerabilities, and personnel training to avoid cyber attacks. Use this internet security PPT layout to talk about the whole process of project kick-off, planning, development, implementation, maintaining, and training for the cyber security services that your company adopts. Showcase the overall project cost that a client has to invest in availing your services as well as mention in detail the financial outlay according to each service and package. Grab the opportunity to educate your audience about the additional services that you provide like software development, cloud services, security, and networking by employing our electronic safeguard services PPT deck. Implement this visually-appealing security services PowerPoint theme to present an attractive business overview of your company and convey your mission, vision, objectives, and goals in an organized manner. Gain the trust of your clients by displaying your past achievements, awards, and client testimonials with this PPT design. You can take the assistance of this PowerPoint slide to inform the customer about your expertise in mobile app development, onsite developer, and business intelligence analytics. Download our ready-to-use computer security PPT graphic and promise the best security to your clients and make an everlasting impression on them. https://bit.ly/3fxyjMt
Enterprise IT is transitioning from the use of traditional on-premise data centers to hybrid cloud environments. As a result, we’re experiencing a paradigm shift in the way we must think about and manage enterprise security. From Four Walls to No Walls Until now, the conventional view on IT security has been that applications and data are safe because they’re physically housed within the confines of a company’s data center walls using company-owned equipment. So, it’s not surprising that many decision makers perceive greater risks as they trade physical assets for cloud-based solutions.
Through our partnerships with leading cloud providers, we are able to offer hybrid, private and public cloud solutions. At Epoch Universal, we supply cloud the way you want it with deep control, extreme performance, and broad customization capabilities. When you join the Epoch Universal fold, you take back the keys to your kingdom. Reign as supreme commander in chief of your cloud. No compromises. No exceptions.
ISACA Journal Publication - Does your Cloud have a Secure Lining? Shah SheikhShah Sheikh
ISACA Journal Publication Volume 5 written by Shah Sheikh - published in Q4 2013. Based on the Cloud Security Alliance Framework whitepaper titled "Does your Cloud have a Secure Lining?"
Cloud computing is architecture for providing
computing service via the internet on demand and pay per use
access to a pool of shared resources namely networks, storage,
servers, services and applications, without physically acquiring
them. So it saves managing cost and time for organizations. The
market size the cloud computing shared is still far behind the one
expected. From the consumers’ perspective, cloud computing
security concerns, especially data security and privacy protection
issues, remain the primary inhibitor for adoption of cloud
computing services. The security for Cloud Computing is
emerging area for study and this paper provide security topic in
terms of cloud computing based on analysis of Cloud Security
treats and Technical Components of Cloud Computing
Security in Clouds: Cloud security challenges – Software as a
Service Security, Common Standards: The Open Cloud Consortium – The Distributed management Task Force – Standards for application Developers – Standards for Messaging – Standards for Security, End user access to cloud computing, Mobile Internet devices and the cloud. Hadoop – MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine.
Trust based Mechanism for Secure Cloud Computing Environment: A Surveyinventionjournals
Ubiquitous computing has revolutionized interaction of humans and machines. Cloud computing has been mainly used for storing data and various computational purposes. It has changed the face of using the internet. But, as we know every technology has its pros and cons. Securing cloud environment is the most challenging issue for the researchers and developers. Main aspects which cloud security should cover are authentication, authorization, data protection etc. Establishing trust between cloud service providers (CSP) is the biggest challenge, when someone is discussing about cloud security. Trust is a critical factor which mainly depends on perception of reputation and self-assessment done by both user and CSP. The trust model can act as security strength evaluator and ranking service for cloud application and services. For establishing trust relationship between two parties, mutual trust mechanism is reliable, as it does verification from both sides. There are various trust models which mainly focuses on securing one party i.e., they validate either user or service node. In this survey paper, the study of various trust models and their various parameters are discussed.
This PPT initially touches upon cloud hosting in brief to form the foundation and then proceeds to focus on providing information about cloud security and its benefits, sharing of its responsibilities and the challenges that need to be dealt with when it comes to cloud security.
Presented at ISACA Indonesia Monthly Technical Meeting, 11 Dec 2019 at Telkom Landmark.
Key takeaways from my presentation:
1. Cloud customers have to understand the share responsibilities between customer and cloud provider
2. Different cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) has different audit methodology
3. Customer’s IT Auditor have to be trained to have the skills needed to audit the cloud service
4. Understanding IAM in Cloud is very important. Each Cloud Service Provider has different IAM mechanism
5. Understanding different type of audit logs in cloud platform is important for IT Auditor
#ALSummit: SCOR Velogica's Journey to SOC2/TYPE2 Via AWSAlert Logic
Clarke Rodgers (CISO, SCOR Velogica)'s presentation on SCOR's journey to SOC2/TYPE2 via AWS at the NYC Alert Logic Cloud Security Summit on June 14th, 2016.
As more enterprises and small and medium (SMB) businesses move critical data and applications over to virtualized, multi-tenant systems in public and private clouds, cyber-criminals will aggressively attack potential security vulnerabilities. Security strategies and best practices must evolve to mitigate rapidly emerging, increasingly dangerous threats. The Cisco VMDC Cloud Security 1.0 solution protects against such threats, and provides a reference design for effectively and economically securing cloud-based physical and virtualized cloud data center deployments.
This design guide describes how to build security into cloud data center deployments. The VMDC Cloud Security 1.0 solution integrates additional security capabilities into data center design with minimal deployment risks, addresses governance and regulatory requirements, and provides improved technical controls to reduce security threats.
Providing end-to-end security for multi-tenant cloud data centers is a critical task that challenges service providers (SPs) and enterprises. However, deploying successful cloud data centers depends upon on end-to-end security in both data center infrastructures and the virtualized environments that host application and service loads for cloud consumers.
Cloud computing is the future of the Information Technology sector, and considering its security is an important aspect. CCSK, an abbreviation of Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge, is the first user certification for secure Cloud computing in the industry.
https://www.infosectrain.com/courses/certificate-cloud-security-knowledge-ccsk/
Who is responsible for security in the enterprise? Every company takes a different approach, but in many cases, accountability and authority do not reside in the same role. When this happens, it’s hard to tell who is responsible for securing digital assets. No wonder executives are worried.
An in-depth look at Security Operations in the Cloud. Join us as we discuss: Cloud Security, Secure Cloud Topology, Kill Chain and Threat actor motives.
Want to learn how to keep your data safe in the cloud? Join us as we discuss: Security, Performance, Compliance, Expert Service, Business Continuity, and Disaster Readiness.
Firehost Webinar: How a Secure High Performance Cloud Powers ApplicationsArmor
Learn from the experts how to effectively secure your online business. Join FireHost’s Director of Technology, Todd Gleason, and ZetaSafe CTO, Chris Wiles as they identify how to secure high performance cloud in critical applications.
Firehost Webinar: Validating your Cardholder Data EnvirnmentArmor
An in-depth look at how to validate your Card Data Environment. Join us as we discuss: PCI 3.0 documentation, cardholder data searches, and pen testing.
An in-depth look at how to prepare for PCI 3.0. Join us as we discuss: scoping, dss, testing requirements, credit card security and threat & vulnerability management.
Firehost Webinar: Hipaa Compliance 101 Part 2- Your Organizational ImpactArmor
An in-depth look at how HIPAA Compliance impacts your organization. Join us as we discuss: risk assessments, building security programs to address HIPAA, covered entities and business associates.
FireHost Webinar: How a Secure High Performance Cloud Powers Critical Applica...Armor
An in-depth look at how the highest performing cloud is helping real businesses. Join us as we discuss candid and relevant examples of how a secure, performance oriented implementation is positively impacting Zeta Compliance Technologies. We'll cover how the secure FireHost infrastructure was designed from the ground up and fine-tuned with performance in mind, and how those decisions led to it outranking all other cloud providers in third party performance benchmarks.
FireHost Webinar: Protect Your Application With Intelligent SecurityArmor
Learn from the experts how to effectively secure your online business. Join FireHost’s CEO, Chris Drake, and WhiteHat Security’s CTO, Jeremiah Grossman as they identify current threats, and reveal how examining billions of attempted attacks at a macro level has identified a new way for enterprises to make intelligent decisions about better protecting their information assets.
FireHost Webinar: 6 Must Have Tools For Disaster PreventionArmor
An in-depth look at the tools needed to prevent a disaster. Join FireHost and our featured customer Dyn as we discuss the key components for keeping your most important business functions online and always available.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
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1. The cloud crossover
10 REASONS YOU’RE READY FOR A MANAGED CLOUD
KAREN SCARFONE | PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT | SCARFONE CYBERSECURITY
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About Karen Scarfone
Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity in Clifton, Va. She was
formerly a senior computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), where she oversaw the development of system and network security publications
for federal civilian agencies and the public. She has co-authored more than 50 NIST Special
Publications and Inter-agency Reports during the past 10 years, including NIST Special
Publications 800-111, Guide to Storage Encryption Technologies for End User Devices, and
800-123, Guide to General Server Security.
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Executive summary
There are many managed cloud services available, but only
a small subset of those emphasize security and are, therefore,
known as secure managed cloud services. Even among these
services, there is a great deal of differentiation from one
service to another.
The best secure managed cloud services, besides promoting
optimal security, are also active (i.e., proactively identifying
emerging problems and responding to them rapidly) and
customized (i.e., taking each customer or workload’s
security needs, operational characteristics and other specific
requirements into account).
• Alleviate the need to have staff provide 24-hour
monitoring and maintenance for cloud workloads
• Reduce the cost of ownership through lower
infrastructure and labor expenses
• Speed the time to market for new IT deployments
(from months to hours)
• Provide unique capabilities that each
customer does not have the resources
to provide themselves directly
• Reduce risk by optimizing security controls
and offering superior response times when
problems occur
• Respond to emerging threats and attacks,
preventing both impact and success
• Enable more efficient paths to government
or industry compliance, such as HIPAA, SOX
and PCI DSS
The best secure managed cloud
services provide several benefits to
their customers, including the ability to:
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What is a managed cloud?
First, let’s define the differences between the various clouds.
Although managed cloud services are often assumed to be for
public clouds only, they can be leveraged for any type of cloud,
including private and hybrid.
The idea behind managed cloud services is for an organization
to transfer some or most of its cloud-related responsibilities
to a third party. The basic characteristics of typical managed
cloud services can be grouped into three categories: security,
infrastructure and experience.
A managed cloud service involves a third-party service provider managing the delivery
of network-based services, applications and equipment on behalf of cloud customers.
Secure managed cloud Managed cloud
Customer responsibility
Public cloud
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Security
Security management is often rather minimal for a basic
managed cloud service provider. The provider takes care of all
security considerations related to the physical infrastructure
itself, such as data center security and periodically scanning
the infrastructure’s software components for vulnerabilities
and ensuring that those vulnerabilities are effectively mitigated.
The provider is also responsible for enforcing basic physical
security principles (e.g., restricting local access to the cloud
servers and the facilities that house them).
Most or all other security-related duties, including compliance
efforts, are the responsibility of the cloud customer with
a typical public cloud or managed cloud service.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure refers to the architecting and management
of the cloud infrastructure itself. These are largely the types
of services that you would expect any managed cloud
provider to offer.
At the most fundamental level, virtually all infrastructure
services include providing power, climate control, Internet
connectivity, and managing the deployment and migration
of cloud workloads among servers.
A cloud management offering includes performance
oversight, such as monitoring the resource utilization of
all cloud workloads and planning for long-term expansion
Finally, infrastructure management can also involve
a degree of assembly related to various tools and services
that enhance the performance and security of the solution.
It also helps keep cloud infrastructure software up-to-date,
which has not only operational implications but also serious
security ramifications. of the cloud infrastructure to handle
increasing needs.
Experience
In terms of managed cloud services, experience can be
divided into two types. One refers to the experience that
a cloud provider’s staff has with the cloud infrastructure
itself — basically, their knowledge and familiarity with the
cloud infrastructure’s operations and security.
The other type of experience refers to the specialized
knowledge that the cloud customer has with their own data,
applications, controls and services that they have migrated
to the cloud.
In a managed cloud service arrangement, the cloud
customer often has to work closely with the cloud provider
when a problem arises.
In most scenarios, the cloud provider lacks experience
and direct knowledge of the customer’s cloud deployment,
configuration, security needs and compliance requirements.
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Three pillars of the secure
managed cloud infrastructure
• Standard around-the-clock
support
• Protection by highly-trained
cybersecurity professionals
• Self-service tools
• Secure portal dashboard
Experience
• World-class security
operations center (SOC)
• Real-time threat
identification & mitigation
• Proactive vulnerability
scanning
• Dedicated compliance
expertise
• Advanced penetration testing
Security
• Seamless integration
• Continuous patching
& updating
• Demonstrated performance
management
• Diligent onboarding
& implementation
• Proven security architecture
Infrastructure
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“Progressive secure
cloud vendors — those
with dedicated and
experienced security
engineering and
operations teams —
have a wide variety of
additional services that
other providers do not.”
Many clouds, many differences
Managed cloud services should not be thought of as
a simple commodity to be purchased from any provider;
indeed, there are major differentiators that separate one
such service from another.
These relate primarily to the division of responsibilities
between the managed cloud service provider and the
customer, as well as the managed cloud service
provider’s general philosophy.
These differences are mapped to the following collection
of differentiators and benefits.
You need built-in security
The biggest differentiator between providers is security. Some
providers put such emphasis on security that they are actually
known as secure managed cloud service providers.
These providers take on much of the security responsibility
that would otherwise be shouldered by customers. But not
all secure clouds offer the same levels or types of security.
First, consider how and where a cloud vendors security
controls are integrated. Some providers focus on perimeter
security, such as IP reputation filtering, Web application
firewalls (WAF) and antivirus solutions.
Other secure managed cloud provides go a step further with
advanced infrastructure protection. How these are architected
and integrated vary from vendor to vendor, but it’s important
to consider the following technology: intrusion detection, log
management, vulnerability monitoring, malware protection,
patch management and file integrity monitoring.
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Likewise, progressive secure cloud vendors — those with
dedicated and experienced security engineering and operations
teams — have a wide variety of additional services that other
providers do not.
Such an offering may include compliance expertise or
consultation to help features to help customers achieve,
document and maintain compliance with various laws and
regulations, including HIPAA and PCI.
Another example of the increased focus on security is
the secure cloud provider’s responsibilities for identifying
vulnerabilities within customer cloud implementations, at the
individual virtual machine (VM) level, and mitigating threats
against those vulnerabilities.
When conducting a comparative evaluation of true secure
managed cloud vendors, execute an in-depth analysis to any
security claims. How, where and what type of security technology
used is critical; the manner in which a cloud vendor manages
and oversees the technology matters even more.
Vendors that are able to provide — and demonstrate — all
the aforementioned security capabilities should go to the top
of the list.
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You value customized service
Also consider the customization options for different
managed cloud services. Some service providers are not
equipped to understand each customer’s unique deployment
and business realities.
If a customer of one of these providers needs technical support
in the case of operational problems, security incidents or other
issues, the customer would contact the provider and be assigned
a random technical support agent to provide assistance.
This agent would likely have little to no information about
the specifics of the customer’s cloud implementation and
usage, security environment or other aspects particular
to that customer.
Contrast that with a provider that emphasizes customized
services. Such providers offer a dedicated person or team
that knows the customer’s policies and needs, infrastructure
usage, environment configuration and business objectives.
This level of service typically includes “run books,” with
extremely detailed logs of all changes, and provides the ability
to respond much more rapidly and effectively to emerging
problems than other providers.
You want a proactive partner
A final differentiator is how proactive the provider
is in terms of managing the cloud service.
A provider that is more proactive will identify emerging
problems with performance, security and other aspects
of the cloud more rapidly and act decisively to correct those
problems before they become disruptive.
For example, a reactive provider might scan the cloud
infrastructure software occasionally (e.g., monthly) for
vulnerabilities, whereas a proactive provider might implement
a continuous monitoring program that frequently scans
for vulnerabilities.
A proactive provider will mitigate most threats and vulnerabilities
before its customers are ever affected. In contrast, a reactive
provider will take action only after a problem has occurred and
notify the customer accordingly — after the damage is done.
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• Need to augment size and/or capabilities
of current IT team
• Want the ability to focus on core business activities
• Desire a partner to help you mitigate risk
• Prefer not to architect a solution in-house
Are you a candidate for a managed
secure cloud?
“How, where and
what type of security
technology used is
critical; the manner in
which a cloud vendor
manages and oversees
the technology matters
even more.”
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The choice is yours
Choosing a secure managed cloud service over a typical cloud
service can provide significant benefits to a customer. Some
secure managed cloud service providers are also active in their
cloud service management and offer customized services for
their customers. This combination — secure, proactive and
customized — is highly desirable for many reasons.
You demand around-the-clock protection
It’s obvious to state that using a secure managed cloud
service should provide a reasonably secure solution.
What makes security so challenging is the need to constantly
monitor and maintain those security controls to take into
account new vulnerabilities, threats, attack vectors and other
aspects of the constantly changing security environment.
It’s also critically important to take into account the individual
needs of each customer, and often even different needs for
different workloads from a single customer.
All of these challenges can be met by taking an active and
customized approach to security, ensuring that continuous
monitoring and prompt maintenance is occurring.
Elite cloud vendors can customize security controls, as needed
for particular workloads, and ensure their staffs have all the
necessary information about the characteristics of each
customer workload.
This allows quick responses to emerging threats and attacks,
helping to prevent many attacks from succeeding and strictly
limiting the impact of those attacks that might succeed.
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• DoS/DDoS mitigation
• IP reputation filtering
• Web application firewalls
Perimeter security
• Intrusion detection
• Log management
• Patch management
• Vulnerability monitoring
• Malware protection
• Integrity monitoring
• Antivirus solution
Infrastructure security
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You want to smartly allocate resources
Using a secure managed cloud service gives an organization
much greater flexibility in terms of allocating staff time.
For example, instead of having to dedicate staff for
around-the-clock monitoring and maintaining the security
and operations of the cloud workloads, the organization
can outsource these responsibilities to a secure managed
cloud service provider.
This is often much more cost-effective for the organization,
as well as a popular decision for the organization’s employees.
Employees may then be assigned to other, potentially more
valuable, tasks or business objectives.
Resource allocation is a particularly important consideration for
smaller organizations and, more generally, any organization that
may lack the necessary cloud security and operational expertise.
Instead of attempting to train all the staff necessary to achieve
around-the-clock cloud management, an organization may
outsource infrastructure efforts to more qualified and
experienced professionals.
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Your dedicated staff
Allocation
of resources
Expert managed
cloud vendor
Monitoring & maintaining
security, operations
& cloud workloads
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You want to reduce total cost of operation
In general, migrating from traditional data center infrastructure
to cloud architectures can produce cost savings. This is
a result of the flexible and scalable nature of cloud architectures;
cloud customers pay for the resources that they use or have
reserved in case they are needed. Migrating to the cloud can
be quite favorable in financial terms, such as the organization
incurring operating costs instead of capital costs.
Cloud migration is ideal for organizations that have rapidly
changing needs or only need cloud resources for a short
period of time, removing the need to build in-house computing
infrastructure sized to handle maximum expected usage.
Cost of ownership is also improved because of the reduced
overhead in having a cloud provider maintain the security of
all its cloud servers instead of having each customer maintain
security for its own servers.
Ultimately, the total cost for using a secure managed cloud
service provider can be less than comparable solutions that
provide equivalent security and compliance levels.
6 “Migrating to the cloud
can be quite favorable in
financial terms, such as
the organization incurring
operating costs instead of
capital costs.”
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You want to go to market faster
For many IT deployments, speed is increasingly critical. It can
take several weeks or months to execute an IT deployment in
traditional environments.
In this scenario, the time required to research, architect,
procure, assemble, integrate, test, train, deploy, optimize and
run the solutions, not to mention securing all included data,
applications and environments, is considerably long.
Secure managed cloud services, however, typically offer
superior onboarding services allowing any organization
to acquire and start using secure cloud services in a matter
of hours.
You need unique capabilities
A secure managed cloud service provider may provide unique
capabilities that an organization simply cannot provide for itself.
These capabilities may include intellectual property, tools,
skills and collective intelligence. It may be difficult or even
impossible for an individual organization to replicate these
capabilities at a reasonable level of effort or cost.
For example, a secure managed cloud service provider may
be able to afford subscriptions to threat intelligence services
that its customers individually could not otherwise justify.
Secure managed cloud service providers also offer dedicated
security operations and information security engineering
teams with deep expertise.
Through collaborative learning, secure managed cloud service
provider also can uniquely see a threat against one of its
customers and leverage this information to protect its other
customers from the same threat.
You want to reduce risk
The best secure managed cloud service providers are experts
in risk reduction. They understand which security controls
are needed to maintain compliance with requirements and
to effectively reduce business, technical and/or operational
risk to acceptable levels for their customers.
More importantly, they implement, monitor and maintain
these controls on behalf of their customers, helping them
achieve compliance as a natural outcome of having such
a secure infrastructure.
Along with this, the best secure managed cloud service
providers can offer superior response times when problems
occur. While many providers only guarantee how quickly
a response to a problem will begin, the best providers talk
in terms of how quickly a problem will be resolved.
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“The best secure managed
cloud service providers are
experts in risk reduction.”
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You have compliance requirements
Complementary of the risk-reduction demands, most
organizations are also subject to one or more compliance
initiatives regarding the security of their sensitive data. Examples
of these initiatives include HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX.
Secure managed cloud service providers are quite experienced
with achieving compliance through their offerings, so this can
greatly reduce the amount of effort that customers expend
to achieve compliance.
Organizations should be cautioned, however, to carefully
evaluate how prospective service providers actually comply
with requirements. Many providers claim they meet compliance
requirements, but these requirements can be achieved on
different levels. And many providers are actually compliant only
at the physical level, not at logical levels above that.
In such a case, each customer must still put forth extensive
effort to achieve compliance at logical levels above the compliant
physical level. Elite secure managed cloud service providers
offer rigorous compliance at all levels to minimize their
customers’ burdens.
Another benefit of using services from a secure managed cloud
service provider is that these providers have relationships with
compliance auditors. An example is Qualified Security Assessors
(QSAs) for PCI DSS compliance.
These auditors have already reviewed the provider’s PCI DSS
compliance efforts and certified that the provider meets the PCI
DSS requirements. This means that a customer of the provider
only needs to display compliance with those requirements that
may only be met by the customer directly. This speeds the audit
process and reduces costs for the customer.
10 “Secure managed cloud
service providers can greatly
reduce the amount of effort
that customers expend
to achieve compliance.”
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More power, more value
Secure managed cloud service providers offer a high-quality
solution at an excellent value to any organization that is
considering a migration to the cloud or is concerned about
the security of their existing cloud deployments.
The best secure managed cloud service providers endeavor
to deliver a highly secure environment for their customers
through a variety of security capabilities via a cloud
management style that is both proactive and customized.
Reasons for adopting such a secure managed cloud service
include resource allocation, cost of ownership, speed to market,
unique capabilities, risk reduction and optimal security.
When compared to public clouds and typical managed
clouds, secure managed clouds offer major benefits in
terms of customer responsibility and monthly cost.
Generally speaking, public clouds involve the most customer
responsibility, followed by managed clouds; secure managed
clouds involve the least customer responsibility, taking
a burden off organization management and staff.
Likewise, public clouds often involve the highest total cost
as compared to managed clouds and secure managed clouds,
which are the most cost-effective.
This may be surprising. However, it can be quite expensive
for an organization to design and deploy a secure in-house
solution with the equivalent security controls, compliance
tools and staffing offered by a secure managed cloud.
“The best secure managed
cloud service providers
endeavor to deliver a
highly secure environment
for their customers … ”
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