The relatively high cost of cloud computing resources, compared to on-premise solutions, is a major challenge for organizations migrating to public cloud services. In this post, we will review several available plansRead More…
Organizations considering migrating to cloud services encounter many myths along the way. In most cases, the myths are based on FUD factor (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). In this post, I will reviewRead More…
Academia remains cautious about security in adopting cloud computing models. Putting data on someone’s public storage or running software on someone else’s CPU can trigger fears of data loss, phishing, botnet andRead More…
As part of managing the risk in working with public clouds, we need to configure an ongoing monitoring solution for our cloud environments. Monitoring provides us with visibility of our cloud environmentsRead More…
As part of managing the risk of working with public clouds, we need to conduct on-going tests in-order to measure the security controls we have embedded in our IaaS (Infrastructure as aRead More…
Working with public cloud services, increases the attack surface, and requires us to adapt our security controls and policies. Public cloud environments reside outside the organizational network, and as a result areRead More…
Working with cloud environments may certain security threats to an organization. In this post, we will review the most common threats and what measures are available to mitigate them. Data Breach ARead More…
In the past couple of years, a new range of solutions and technologies known as Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) have emerged in-order to provide additional security controls for cloud environments whereRead More…
In a previous post we explained the basic concepts of encryption. In this chapter we will focus on the various solutions offered by public cloud vendors, in the area of encryption and cryptography:Read More…
The goal of this post is to present a common case study for building a research environment in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Building an environment in the cloud involves several topics weRead More…