Tag: Security

Learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.

Learn how the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark helps organizations operate securely whilst examining the common challenges businesses face in its implementation. Stax can offer a solution to speed up AWS account creation while adhering to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. Creating and configuring AWS accounts securely can be a time-consuming and tedious exercise. Competing priorities can result in rushed or inconsistent process, impacting security, agility, and velocity.

We are excited to highlight 83 AWS Partners that received new designations in May for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

To meet compliance like PCI-DSS, SOC2, and HIPAA, a customer typically has to change their architecture and workload, which can take significant time, money, and effort. With Very Good Security (VGS), customers retain full control over their data while offloading information security burdens, transferring the risk of a data breach, and fast-tracking compliance. VGS acts as a secure layer between your company and sensitive data.

Organizations are under heightened threat from ransomware incidents as “ransomware as a service” has increased in prevalence, duration, and cost. As a result, they need an integrated approach that addresses the NIST CSF pillars. This post walks you through the components of an offering built on CrowdStrike Falcon Pro, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS), and Presidio DRS Orchestration Layer (DOL).

A key component of a financial institution’s transactional infrastructure is the connectivity to the SWIFT network and the availability of solutions to run this key workload in the cloud. For customers with existing SWIFT connectivity, it’s easy to switch from an on-premises infrastructure to DiXiO’s cloud solution by switching from sending files to their local AutoClient to sending them to DiXiO’s AWS solution through SFTP, MQ, or API. Customers can keep their local infrastructure as a backup initially and later disable it completely.

With proper DevSecOps implementation, security becomes an integral part of the application delivery pipeline, allowing developers to receive rapid and contextual feedback as they build new features. The new DevSecOps category for the AWS DevOps Competency makes it easy for customers to find validated AWS Partners with DevSecOps products. These partners can help customers build secure applications by integrating security controls and policies into their application delivery pipelines.

We are excited to highlight 75 AWS Partners that received new designations in March for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

With the support of AWS SaaS Factory, GA Telesis launched the FraudBlock SaaS solution, a fraud protect API service for companies to protect their organizations from BEC/EAC scams and help securely perform B2B transactions. The SaaS Factory team spoke with Darryl Maraj, Head of Technology at DIG and CTO at Blockrails, to learn more about Blockrails, the value its new FraudBlock solution brings to customers, and the key lessons learned building a SaaS solution on AWS.

We are excited to highlight 72 AWS Partners that received new designations in February for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.