Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently, Amazon has enlisted a small group of partners to join them in performing [...]
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 just a portion of the actual [...]
Azure for the masses Microsoft has come a long way in the past two years with their cloud offerings, and Azure is now a legit IaaS option that many of our customers are interested in. [...]
A while back AWS EBS encryption moved to using KMS (Key Management Service). This was a welcome change as KMS is a great service that enables some interesting security models around different AWS customers sharing [...]
A Better Way to Manage Internet Access for VPC Resources Anyone who has run OpsWorks stacks with private instances relying on NAT for Internet access may have seen firsthand what danger lurks beneath the surface. These instances will [...]
Here at Foghorn Consulting, we've been designing, implementing, and managing point to point security with AWS security groups for years. Security groups allow an amazingly granular method of controlling communications between instances without being bound [...]
