Tag Archives: Security

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

[This is Phil Cox's first blog post since he joined us as Director of Security and Compliance. We hope to have more from him to post in the near future! -Thorsten] Security testing is one aspect of a security program … Continue reading

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