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Continuous Compliance on AWS with CodePipeline and CloudFormation

Whether it’s in or out of the cloud, most IT compliance usually comes in the form of a multitude of checklists – like the one you see below. It might be a spreadsheet, website, or other “digital” tool but, in the end, it’s still checklists that software teams must comply with by filling out forms Read more…

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Automatically Remediate Noncompliant AWS Resources using Lambda

While enterprises are capable of rapidly scaling their infrastructure in the cloud, there’s a corresponding increase in the demand for scalable mechanisms to meet security and compliance requirements based on corporate policies, auditors, security teams, and others. For example, we can easily and rapidly launch hundreds of resources – such as EC2 instances – in Read more…

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Continuous Compliance on AWS Workflow

It’s 7:37 AM on a Sunday. You’re in the Security Operations Center (SOC) and alarms and emails are seemingly being triggered everywhere. You and a colleague are combing through dashboards and logs to determine what is causing these alerts. After running around with your “hair on fire” for around 30 minutes, you finally determine that Read more…

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DevOps on AWS Radio: Automating AWS IoT (Episode 25)

In this episode, we chat with Michael Neil a DevOps Automation Engineer here at Mphasis Stelligent about the AWS IoT platform. AWS IoT consists of many products and services, it can be difficult to know where to start when piecing together each of the offerings to create an IoT solution. Paul Duvall and Michael Neil will Read more…

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Dance like Nobody’s Watching; Encrypt like Everyone Is

While AWS is making computing easier, it can be challenging to know how to effectively use encryption. In this screencast, we provide an overview of the encryption landscape on AWS. This includes services like AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Key Management Service, and the Encryption SDK, which provide encryption in transit and at rest. In addition, Read more…

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AWS re:Inforce: Novelties + Key Insights

Are you a cloud security expert or enthusiast? Were you at the first-ever security-focused AWS conference in Boston? If your answers are Yes and No respectively, I have just one more question for you; Where were you? The first-ever AWS re:Inforce was definitely a success by all means (aside from all the free t-shirts I Read more…

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AWS CodePipeline Approval Gate Tracking

With the pursuit of DevOps automation and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), many companies are now migrating their applications onto the AWS cloud to take advantage of the service capabilities AWS has to offer. AWS provides native tools to help achieve CI/CD and one of the most core services they provide for that is AWS CodePipeline. Read more…

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DevOps on AWS Radio: DevOps Culture with Jeff Gallimore (Episode 24)

In this episode, we chat with Excella Co-Founder and Partner Jeff Gallimore about all things DevOps culture. In this episode we take a departure from our technical deep dives to explore culture: how to measure culture, culture typology, psychological safety, how continuous delivery impacts culture, how culture affects performance, and more! We even get into Read more…