In the past couple of years, there is a buzz about cloud-native applications. In this series of posts, I will review what exactly is considered a cloud-native application and how can we secure cloud-native applications. Before speaking about cloud-native applications, we should ask ourselves — what is cloud native anyway? …

Organizations migrating to the public cloud, or already provisioning workloads in the cloud come across limitations, either on production workloads or issues published in the media, as you can read below:

The software supply chain is considered one of the common threats in today’s modern cloud-native development, which poses a high risk to any organization. It is about consuming software packages, source code, or even APIs from a third-party or untrusted source. The last thing we wish to do is to…

Benefits of loosely coupled systems

Water Stewardship

Maintaining cloud infrastructure, especially compute components, requires a lot of effort — from patch management, secure configuration, and more. Other than the efforts it takes for the maintenance part, it simply will not scale. Will we be able to support our workloads when we need to scale to thousands of…

When talking about the public cloud, I always like the analogy to the OSI model. “The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) is a conceptual model. Communications between a computing system are split into seven different abstraction layers: Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application” (Wikipedia) A similar…

A virtual chief information security officer (or vCISO) is a person with a vast amount of experience in cybersecurity, who can provide an organization with guidance on how to create, maintain and improve information security programs. We usually meet companies who chose to hire a vCISO (mostly small or medium…

When thinking about cloud computing, we immediately think about technology. Have we ever stopped to think about how much energy this sort of technology requires to operate an average cloud data center, and what is the environmental effect of running such huge data centers around the world? Data centers generate…