The adoption of cloud architecture is gaining momentum as businesses seek enhanced scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. However, this transition is not without its challenges. I recently authored a series of articles on Dataversity that delves into five critical cloud architecture mistakes that can impede a seamless migration journey. These include: 1. Losing…
In this third chapter of my “Ticking Time Bomb” series, I’d like to explore how existing approaches to cloud security create problems with an emerging but important security discipline called DevSecOps. If you’d like get caught up, you can check out my first chapters on cost challenges here and scale challenges here. There will be…
Approximately 4 out of 5 global IT leaders agree that current cloud approaches are creating new security risks for their enterprise (CloudBolt). It’s a belief that skyPurple Cloud, a cloud services company, is working through with its customers every day. Serving companies primarily in life sciences, healthcare, and biotech, skyPurple Cloud provides bespoke solutions…
The AWS community of independent software vendors (ISVs) is the most customer-centric in the world and brilliantly extends the reach of the AWS cloud, providing customers more choice and bringing the power of joint innovation to customers’ doorsteps. AWS has aggressively continued to invest in developing this vibrant community of software providers as…
It’s All About Risk Earlier this spring I decided to take an in-depth look at the best-practice networking security known as the virtual DMZ, which is essentially a data center era firewall deployed at virtual kit in a hub VPC or VNet, surrounded by various spoke VPCs or VNets. I set out to examine…
In November of 2021, a team of security researchers at Alibaba announced a massive discovery. Log4J, one of the most popular libraries in the 2nd most popular programming language, had an extremely simple Remote Code Execution vulnerability. They nicknamed it “Log4Shell.” This, like several Apache Struts vulnerabilities before it, was a 5-alarm fire for many…