Configuring an Amazon Web Services Security Group
Configuring an Amazon Web Services Security Group Security Groups are just like firewalls, you can set what you want to allow into your system or not on both public and private interfaces. Building out an Amazon Security Group is much like building out a firewall for your systems. You can have as many security groups [...]
Layer7 – Abstracting Cloud Gateways
I recently spoke with Scott Morrison, VP Engineering at Layer 7 Technologies, a SOA and governance company that has been doing appliance based gateways for years looking at traffic, cryptography, authentication, authorization, etc, and setting rules and policy. Layer 7 is now moving what they do into the clouds. From their release; With Layer 7’s [...]
Mohammed, the Mountain, Google and Zoho (Oh, and Microsoft Sharepoint, too)
If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain. Legend says when the Founder of Islam was asked to give proof of his teaching, he ordered Mount Safa to come to him. When the mountain did not comply, Mohammed went to to the mountain, raised his hands and thanked God [...]
Third Brigade – Securing Your Cloud Infrastructure
If you tap into the chatter on Cloud Computing, you will hear lots of concerns about the security issues, regulatory issues, etc.. Even though some of the negative chatter are totally overblown, one cannot reject these security concerns, especially in the case of enterprises. Off late, we are seeing tremendous progress on the security front [...]
F-Secure Moves Security Suite Into the Cloud
Back in September, I wrote about Symantec moving its Anti-virus into the cloud. That is an idea that makes sense, to share the data and computational load between the client and the back end hosted server ala cloud computing. F-Secure believes it the idea so much, that they are working on an entire suit of [...]
