Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Security Challenges and Opportunities of Remote Work | Kill the VPN |

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many organizations to shift to a remote workforce almost overnight, most of which were not prepared for the sudden change. In their efforts to ensure their employees could remain productive, a number of organizations relaxed their security policies and unwittingly exposed their networks to compromise. As the pandemic continues, security challenges remain, but organizations also now have opportunities to find and fix vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture, even as their employees eventually migrate back to the office.

Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes

What is a microservice? Should you be using microservices? How are microservices related to containers and Kubernetes? If these things keep coming up in your day-to-day and you need an overview in 10 minutes, this blog post is for you. Fundamentally, a microservice is just a computer program which runs on a server or a virtual computing instance and responds to network requests.

Applying 3 Practical Lessons from the SolarWinds Breach

It’s been more than a month since the SolarWinds breach first started dominating security headlines, and we’re still learning new details about the attacks and the organizations affected. Even as the discussion quiets down, it’s easy to imagine we’ll still be looking back and analyzing the full effects of these incidents in much the same way we talk about other seminal breaches and security events from the past 20 years.

Be Ready for Anything with VMware Cloud on AWS

If the pandemic, catastrophic wildfires, record-setting hurricane season, and “murder hornets” of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s to be prepared for any situation. In business, the motto is “hope for the best, plan for the worst.” Should some sort of disaster – cyber or otherwise – strike, organizations need to be prepared to maintain business as usual with a strong disaster recovery plan in place.

SASE 101 for Security Practitioners

What is SASE? Join us for a technical session detailing the technology benefits of a SASE-ready architecture. By the end of the video, you will understand the key network and security components of SASE, explore technology consolidation within a SASE environment, and gain insight into how to start building a SASE-ready architecture.

How to Securely Access Compute Resources in Cloud Environments

Virag Mody, Technical Writer for Gravitational gave a concise talk on Infrastructure Security best practices for this ADTmag Webinar. In the talk he covers why certificate authorities are so important, and what individuals can do to create a more secure infrastructure access process.

15 minute demo | Teleport Cloud | SSH | Kubernetes | Application access

Try out Teleport Cloud today! Teleport implements industry best security practices out of the box and brings all computing resources into compliance with security standards such as SOC2, PCI, and FedRAMP by providing all necessary access controls as well as audit and visibility into access and behavior across all computing environments Benefits of Teleport cloud Shorter time to production No hardware or software to procure, simple pricing Wizard-based approach to setup and configuration Shared-nothing infrastructure, no noisy neighbor problems.

API Security in a Digitally Transformed World

One unexpected consequence of the global pandemic is the acceleration of digital transformation across organizations of all sizes. With so many employees working from home, organizations realized they needed to upgrade to a cloud infrastructure to support everyone working remotely. As applications moved from on-premises to the cloud to support these new remote users, organizations needed to think about the APIs and microservices that connected users to essential applications.

Mobile Security Best Practices for Law Firms

I write a lot about how organizations can secure their workers as they start using tablets and smartphones more for work. The truth is, the legal professional has been ahead of that curve for years. Even before smartphones were introduced over a decade ago, lawyers, paralegals and legal staff were already using cellphones to stay on top of case work. Now, with smartphones and tablets, your law firm’s staff can do everything they used to do in an office from wherever they go.

Secure RBAC / SSO for Kubernetes with Teleport OSS and Github Teams

The promise of elastic scale and cloud native has driven the demand for K8s, but developers now have the harder task of building applications in a secure manner. This talk will focus on best practices and potential pitfalls for securing K8s for the engineering team by using the K8s API server and control plane. Join us for a how-to on implementing a robust Role Based Access Control (RBAC) tied into the corporate SSO/Identity provider using Github Teams and open source software.