Category Archives: Security
RightScale Compute 2013: Day Two
The first day of the RightScale Compute 2013 conference was packed with information, but one day wasn’t enough time for us to share all the information we brought about cloud strategies and futures. Two days wasn’t enough either, but that’s … Continue reading
RightScale Compute 2013: Day One
Yesterday was the first day of RightScale Compute 2013, our annual conference in San Francisco. (You can also read about Day Two.) The day kicked off with a keynote address by James Staten, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, … Continue reading
AWS CloudHSM: Why You’ll Want It and What to Watch Out For
Security has been one of the top challenges in every survey on cloud computing in the last five years. Yet public cloud providers have continued to beef up their security offerings, and not everyone realizes how far providers have come … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Management, Security
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing, Security
Security Monitoring In Public IaaS: How We Do It at RightScale
In my experience helping RightScale customers who are at varying points in the cloud adoption spectrum from investigating IaaS to launching a POC to already using IaaS for production applications, I see quite a bit of confusion about how to … Continue reading
RightScale Enterprise Security Features Unleashed
We have been busy this summer working on a number of security- and governance-related features for our Enterprise Edition customers, who are typically large organizations that have well-defined internal user identity and compliance structures. With the latest RightScale release, we have … Continue reading
Posted in Security
Tagged API, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, MultiCloud, Release, RightLink, Security
PCI Compliance in the Public IaaS Cloud: How I Did It
Over the past few years, I have heard many folks assert that one can be a PCI compliant merchant using public IaaS cloud and I have heard just as many state that it’s not possible. In retrospect, I have found most of them – … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Security
Tagged Compliance, PCI, PCI-DSS
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RightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages
A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale for … Continue reading
Posted in Chef, EC2, Security
Tagged Cloud Management, RightImage, RightLink, RightScale, SSH
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Applying Security Workarounds in the RightScale Universe
In a recent post I discussed some of the options for patch management in the RightScale platform, this time I will talk about what happens when a patch is not available through traditional patch channels from the vendor. This typically … Continue reading
Security Patching in the RightScale Universe
Security vulnerabilities happen, it is just a fact, not only in technology but in life in general. When we are made aware of those vulnerabilities, we need to “fix” things or mitigate them to the best extent possible. In IT, … Continue reading
