What is NIST CSF? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was published in February 2014, in response to Presidential Executive Order 13636, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”. This order called for a...
Mistakes are commonplace in any networking environment, and especially when it comes to administering complex public cloud infrastructure with multiple engineers working asynchronously. Too often, we’ll get wrapped up in “deploying tool X” or “connect to external...
Hyperglance Launches Cloud Automation, Remediation & Actions Hyperglance’s automation/action feature set builds on top of our inventory and rules engine to give you the ability to manage and automate your AWS environment directly from Hyperglance. Using our...
5 Cost Optimization Tips For Cloud Architects These five cost reduction practices all have a common foundation: getting a tool to do the heavy lifting and then showing the Cloud Architect the cost data, in context, of your cloud architecture. If you don’t have a tool...
What is Cloud Cost Optimization? There are so many questions that a Cloud Architect must continuously ask of their cloud usage to keep downward pressure on cloud costs and avoid runaway bills: How do I reduce my Azure & AWS bill? How much of last month’s cloud...
What is Cloud Security Posture Management? Cloud Security Posture Management, CSPM for short, is a term most likely coined, by Gartner, in a 2019 innovation paper. In that paper, Gartner noted that “nearly all successful attacks on cloud services are the result of...
What is Visualization? Visualization is a human trait, it has been part of us since our ancestors painted on cave walls to map animal types, movement and the hunt. A more recent example of visualization as innovation was when Napoleon used them in the early 19th...
Top tips for surviving AWS Re:Invent It’s re:invent time again! I thought I would repost my 2018 blog with some updates, comments and yes, some changes. "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" I have attended more than my fair share of...
Top Five New Challenges Triggered by Cloud Pace of Innovation The Amazon Web Services (AWS) pace of innovation over the past eight years amazes me. Every year their cloud gets wider and deeper! The breadth of their public cloud offering reveals a count of over sixty...
,There’s a problem lurking in the cloud-era IT industry. Nineteen years since the 20th century and documentation techniques such as runbooks from that era still persist today. 21st century technologies and methodologies such as cloud services, containers,...
