Category: Security

Automating FortiGate Next Generation Firewall Intrusion Prevention using AWS CloudFormation AWS CloudFormation provides a way for you to create templates that can help you automatically launch resources. This helps you eliminate manual tasks such as configuring route tables or assigning elastic IP addresses (EIP) to instances. In this blog post, I show how to help […]

The human resource needs of cybersecurity can cause organizational strain. Organizations have access to plenty of security tools but might not have enough skilled personnel to maximize their use. They might also have difficulty contending with the growing number of security events that need to be investigated every day. There are also financial and technical […]

AWS Marketplace now offers a new category of solutions to help you integrate third-party software with AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower provides a way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It is based on best practices established through the experience working with thousands of enterprises as they move to […]

The term “endpoints” usually refers to user devices, such as laptops and servers. Cloud-based endpoints, however, include more than just the device: databases, instances, services, and applications. As endpoints have changed, endpoint security has expanded from a simple antivirus solution to an integrated set of advanced visibility and security features. Endpoint security solutions now offer […]

Firewalls provide a security layer by giving you control over which traffic you allow to access your web applications. Web Appliction Firewalls such as AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) do this by allowing you to customize web security rules to define which traffic can access your applications and which traffic should be blocked. While […]

Security practitioners designing and implementing solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a breadth of AWS services and third-party Independent Software Vendor (ISV) security solutions to help them customize and control security. AWS services can help you enable relevant controls for key security use cases and lay the foundation for a stronger overall security posture. […]

In this post, I will summarize the principles discussed in the recent AWS Marketplace webinar, “Making the Move from DevOps to DevSecOps.” If you are on your journey to the cloud with AWS, you are probably already using some DevOps approaches, so you can spin up new Virtual Machines (VMs), test, stage, and deploy applications […]