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The Continuum of Cloud Native Topologies

by Charlene O’Hanlon on June 14, 2020

There are many compute options for cloud native environments, and the differences among them are nuanced. Each has its own advantages and downfalls, and few organizations will find a single option that fits all their needs. This white paper offers a model for viewing the different technologies as a continuum to address different scenarios, which..
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Deploying DevSecOps with Scalability in Mind

by Charlene O’Hanlon on December 25, 2019

Businesses of all sizes are embracing the DevOps model to accelerate digital transformation and become more agile. While few can dispute the benefits that the DevOps model brings to businesses, security concerns exist. Many businesses, in their rush to deploy applications rapidly and embrace a continuous delivery cycle, are overlooking the importance of cybersecurity. The..
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Cloud Security: Keeping Serverless Data Safe

by Charlene O’Hanlon on December 10, 2019

Serverless computing has emerged as one of the fastest growing cloud services mainly because it enables developers to write less code. Rather than having to write the code to process analytics as a batch job within the application, for example, developers increasingly are making use of functions, a small piece of code that, when invoked,..
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Security Challenges in the Cloud: Solving for Visibility and Protection Across Architectures

by Charlene O’Hanlon on July 26, 2019

With the rise of cloud native applications, IT organizations in the never-ending pursuit of increased agility have now started to embrace new platforms at faster rates than ever before. There are now no less than three distinct layers of cloud native abstractions that are simultaneously being employed to run varying classes of cloud native application..
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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Security

by Charlene O’Hanlon on March 13, 2018

Enterprises have embraced hybrid cloud — here’s what you need to know when it comes to security You’d think by now all the cloud-computing buzzwords would’ve rained down. But hybrid cloud computing still has a fuzzy nature about it. For whatever reasons enterprises embrace cloud, hybrid cloud use is near ubiquitous. According to a 2017..
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The DevSecOps Approach to Securing Your Code and Your Cloud

by Charlene O’Hanlon on October 16, 2017

DevSecOps, at heart, is about collaboration. More specifically, it is continual collaboration between information security, application development and IT operations teams. Having all three teams immersed in all development and deployment activities makes it easier for information security teams to integrate controls into the deployment pipeline without causing delays or creating issues by implementing security..
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A New Approach for Securing DevOps Environments in the Cloud

by Charlene O’Hanlon on October 16, 2017

Today's, high-performing teams deploy on demand or multiple times per day, and they can deploy changes to production in less than an hour. Servers themselves may exist for less than an hour. This rapid pace is leaving security teams behind. And the massive gap between code being deployed within hours and security projects taking weeks puts companies at risk. To learn more, download this free e-book now.
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