Heroku is one of the most well known PaaS platforms out there, and is dearly loved by many developers and startups. As some companies grow, however, they find that they need...
Hardening for HITRUST
Many of our clients have a need to run workloads that need to be compliant with industry regulations. One of the most common of these is HIPAA compliance. Because the HIPAA...
Simplifying AWS Permissions Management with Okta
Enterprise companies who commit to a cloud infrastructure strategy find themselves with many teams running many workloads on AWS. The best practice for partitioning between...
Compliant Containers in the Cloud
One of our customers, Ellie Mae, is in the process of transforming their SaaS business to take optimum advantage of cloud infrastructure and microservice architecture with...
Terraform Issue for AWS Lambda Users
Background: On September 4th, AWS launched a major improvement to AWS Lambda and how it works with your Amazon VPC networks. Startup performance has been enhanced and usage...
Foghorn Awarded Azure Gold Partner Status
Led by our resident Microsoft savant Steve Styerwalt, Foghorn is pleased to announce that we have achieved Azure Gold Partner status. The road to gold was paved with many...
Systems Hardening Using the CIS Benchmarks & Ansible
In my previous post, we discussed the CIS Benchmarks and system hardening. If you missed it, please check it out here so you can follow along. If you are familiar with the...
Using DevOps Principles to Enhance Diversity in Tech
Alston Rousseau is a Senior Cloud Consultant for Foghorn Consulting. With the soaring need for cloud engineering talent, enterprises are encouraging more and more people,...
Systems Hardening Got You Down?
System hardening is the process of securing a system by modifying its “out of the box” configuration to reduce the attack surface. This task can be a bit...
Democratizing Security
I was quite happy at the AWS Summit Santa Clara when keynote speaker Dr. Werner Vogels, while wearing a t-shirt labeled “Encrypt Everything”, stood in front of a slide that...
