Security Patching in the RightScale Universe
Security vulnerabilities happen, it is just a fact, not only in technology but in life in general. When we are made aware of those vulnerabilities, we need to “fix” things or mitigate them to the best...
View ArticleApplying Security Workarounds in the RightScale Universe
In a recent post I discussed some of the options for patch management in the RightScale platform, this time I will talk about what happens when a patch is not available through traditional patch...
View ArticleRightLink Agent Security Features and Upgrading from V4 RightImages
A fundamental problem in Cloud management is “how do I get the remote instance to do what I want it to?”. Taking this task on for a few systems is doable with a number of techniques, making it scale...
View ArticlePCI Compliance in the Public IaaS Cloud: How I Did It
Over the past few years, I have heard many folks assert that one can be a PCI compliant merchant using public IaaS cloud and I have heard just as many state that it’s not possible. In retrospect, I...
View ArticleRightScale Enterprise Security Features Unleashed
We have been busy this summer working on a number of security- and governance-related features for our Enterprise Edition customers, who are typically large organizations that have well-defined...
View ArticleSecurity Monitoring In Public IaaS: How We Do It at RightScale
In my experience helping RightScale customers who are at varying points in the cloud adoption spectrum from investigating IaaS to launching a POC to already using IaaS for production applications, I...
View ArticleAWS CloudHSM: Why You’ll Want It and What to Watch Out For
Security has been one of the top challenges in every survey on cloud computing in the last five years. Yet public cloud providers have continued to beef up their security offerings, and not everyone...
View ArticleRightScale Compute 2013: Day One
Yesterday was the first day of RightScale Compute 2013, our annual conference in San Francisco. (You can also read about Day Two.) The day kicked off with a keynote address by James Staten, vice...
View ArticleRightScale Compute 2013: Day Two
The first day of the RightScale Compute 2013 conference was packed with information, but one day wasn’t enough time for us to share all the information we brought about cloud strategies and futures....
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