A prior Secplicity blog post explored the potential of cloud security. Automation is one of the most important reasons to move applications to the cloud. By design, third-party cloud platforms can automate manual tasks to deploy, monitor and maintain systems. The AWS Architecting for the Cloud whitepaper explains best practices for cloud applications driven by automation. How … [Read more...]
Can The Cloud Be “More Secure”?
The CIO of Capital One, one of the largest banks in the US, made a bold statement in 2015 at a major cloud conference. “We can operate more securely on AWS than we can in our own data center.” Is this really possible? In your own data center or on your own physical servers, you have complete control over everything. You install the software, network, and hardware so you know … [Read more...]