CloudPassage
CloudPassage Halo update — Making PCI Easier
This post was originally published here by ram krishnan. We’re happy to announce a CloudPassage Halo update! In this release we’ve focused on simplifying customers’ compliance efforts, deepening integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) using EC2 metadata, and increasing the accuracy of known software vulnerabilities detection for the Microsoft Windows Server platform. We think that […]
New Slack integration for Halo: Don-Bot
This post was originally published here by Ash Wilson. There’s a new tool in the Halo Toolbox and it’s called Don-Bot, and it has nothing to do with the Futurama character. This Don-Bot is named after our mascot, Don T. Daemon. Don-Bot is a Slack bot that allows you to interactively query CloudPassage Halo and receive alerts without opening Yet-Another-Browser-Window, or […]
IT security sucks
It’s rare to find a bunch of people who agree on anything. It’s even rarer when you find a bunch of people who agree that they all suck. Welcome to a rare situation. A few weeks ago, I spoke at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. In my audience were hundreds of IT professionals. Some were […]
Software-defined security for burnout avoidance
You look at the alarm clock that’s proven to be amazingly resilient to abuse, particularly the snooze button, and it’s fifteen minutes after midnight on a Sunday morning. Your alarm is going off because it’s time to go into the office for the change window; your company’s Change Advisory Board (CAB) had voted on Thursday […]
Establishing a data protection committee for boards
Guest post by Matthew Pascucci, Frontline Sentinel Within certain countries, especially in the European Union, there are certain data protection committee requirements to enforce the privacy and protection of a country’s or an organization’s data. In the United States while we don’t have comparable laws enforced, we believe it’s an idea we should still strive towards before it’s mandated […]
