This week over 44,000 people traveled to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s largest conference of the year. I spoke to a crowd of close to 500 people on Monday about top cloud security threats, along with my co-presenter, Boyan Dimitrov, from Sixth who presented on compliance and security automation. A short overview follows. For more information, watch the video and … [Read more...]
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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Managed Security Service Providers
WatchGuard’s investment towards enabling MSSP Partners includes continued enhancements to our program, products, and ecosystem. Managed service providers often deploy and manage products from a variety of solution vendors, including within their customers’ IT ecosystems as well their own environments. Managing these multiple products together and integrating them with custom … [Read more...]
Configuration Management to the Rescue: Patching and S3 Buckets
I recently wrote a two-part series of articles for Dark Reading on the technical and organizational challenges that make patching hard in large organizations like Equifax. The same types of issues factor into the recent rash of AWS S3 Bucket breaches I examined in a prior Secplicity blog post. In each of these scenarios, someone in the organization is responsible for updating a … [Read more...]
S3 Bucket Security: More Than ACLs and Policies
Many companies are suffering data breaches because attackers gain access to data in AWS S3 buckets. I don’t want to repeat all the news articles outlining all the S3 data breaches. A Google search will give many examples, and it seems like by the time I write this another one will be in the news. Instead, I’d like to jump to why these S3 bucket breaches are happening and how to … [Read more...]
The Seattle CTO Club ~ Sharing Security Information
Yesterday I had the honor of presenting some security information at the Seattle CTO Club. I loosely based the discussion on a similar presentation I gave last week at an event for Equinox IT, a WatchGuard partner, covering the cyber security landscape and top threats businesses face. Members of the group learned common attack patterns and discussed strategies for effectively … [Read more...]