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New: Weekly Halo Cloud Secure Demos
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. The New Year is a time to celebrate new beginnings. Starting over with a clean slate of resolutions, goals, launches, etc. That’s the good news. Now here’s the bad: If you thought 2018 was a tough year for data breaches, 2019 will be even tougher! But the […]
Harness the Power of IaaS Without Compromising Security
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. This is the first of a two part series on the benefits of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Enterprises struggle to control costs and stay competitive – they face increasing demands to keep pace with requirements for data storage and protection, ever-changing regulations, and the daily threat of security […]
Best practices for securing your Azure SQL
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. Azure SQL enables you to maintain the security, integrity and consistency of your data, which is critical when customer information is at stake, but it requires using a new approach to security. In Azure, you can have your SQL Server workloads running in a hosted infrastructure (IaaS) or […]
Securing your Azure Storage accounts
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. Enterprise data is growing exponentially and becoming more complex, making it harder to manage, and an even bigger challenge to store. That’s why more organizations are looking to public cloud storage options, such as Azure Storage, as a way to get the scalability, durability, maintenance and […]
Securing Azure Application Gateway
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. Web applications are becoming frequent targets of malicious attacks that exploit common vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection attacks or cross site scripting attacks, which makes securing your Azure Application Gateway more critical than ever. Preventing such attacks in application code can be a sizeable challenge, as […]
Best Practices for Securing Cloud-Hosted DNS Services like Amazon Route 53
This post was originally published here by gregg rodriguez. Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud-based Domain Name System (DNS) web service offered within AWS. Like any DNS, Route 53 handles domain registration and routes users’ Internet requests to your application, whether it’s hosted on AWS or somewhere else. Route 53 is […]
Who’s responsible for security in AWS?
This post was originally published here by carson sweet. One of the biggest questions to be answered as enterprises migrate to AWS is, who’s responsible for security? The AWS shared responsibility model for security is a must-read for security and compliance practitioners starting their AWS journey. AWS does provide quite a lot of security for their customers, […]
Network-Bound Disk Encryption in Red Hat Linux 7
This post was originally published here by sergei odnoval. As you likely know, using cloud services means that you’re storing data on servers you don’t own. Mistakes made in the cloud are therefore more likely to become public and the impact can range from embarrassment, to losing all of your data. And one of the […]
Containers 101 – What do you need to know?
This post was originally published here by shaane syed. Thanks to Docker, containers are now the future of web development. According to DataDog, 15% of hosts run Docker, which is significantly up both from the 6% of hosts running it at this point in 2015 and the 0% of hosts running it before it was released […]
