Terraform – Declarative but Powerful For years, Foghorn has been helping our clients to automate their infrastructure via code. Doing so enables them to have...
Win the Battle Against CM Dependency Errors
Dependencies got you down? Find them! Many of us end up with lots of dependencies in our configuration management code. Whether it’s community cookbooks or package...
Foghorn Achieves AWS Well Architected Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently,...
Get.. and KEEP.. HITRUST Certification in the cloud
If you are managing any Protected Health Information (PHI), you need to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA is a law that contains guidelines and responsibilities but is not audited...
Peer Review – Using Terraform and Lambda to automate VPC Peering
Terraform as a Foundation Terraform is really great. As someone who has spent the better part of the past decade codifying cloud infrastructure, there is an inexorable groan...
The Rise of Cybersecurity Project Managers
According to Ponemon Institute the average cost of a data breach in 2017 for an organization was $141 per stolen record, and $3.62M per occurrence. The financial costs are...
Hands-on with AWS re:Invent 2017 Labs
I went to Las Vegas last month, and didn’t gamble once! Weird, right? But AWS re:Invent 2017 was so full of material that it doesn’t leave much free time for the...
Supporting Thorn’s Campaign by Protecting your AWS S3 Resources
As alluded to in a previous blog post, We Saw. We Hacked. We Conquered. this is the follow up with the architectural details. Thorn builds technology to defend children...
We Saw. We Hacked. We Conquered.
One of our customers, Ellie Mae, asked us to join them in the Not-Profit Hackathon at AWS re:Invent 2017, and we jumped at the chance. With Foghorn making up 1/2 the team,...
Updates to VPC-in-a-Box
In case you aren’t familiar with the offering, VPC-in-a-Box is Foghorn’s best practice VPC design for Amazon Web Services; customized for client workloads, and...
