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Archives for January, 2012


Cloud Security Monitoring for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

by Anton Chuvakin  |  January 21, 2012  |  1 Comment

My journey deep into cloud security monitoring continues, with a brief detour into “faith-based monitoring” (as in “we believe our cloud provider takes care of monitoring“). In any case, let’s try to review what types of data we can leverage for security monitoring of resources deployed in each of the cloud service provider (CSP) types: [...]

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More On Security Monitoring of Public Cloud Assets

by Anton Chuvakin  |  January 14, 2012  |  3 Comments

This post is not a whine about how security in public cloud environments is lagging behind the traditional physical environments. There is nothing here to whine about since our experience with other IT advances – think PC, client-server, web applications, mobile devices – teaches us that it is ALWAYS the case for new technologies.  The [...]

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Cloud Security Monitoring!

by Anton Chuvakin  |  January 9, 2012  |  5 Comments

How exciting is that? You combine 3 non-specific words – cloud, security, monitoring – and you get … what exactly? Let’s find out! This quarter my research focuses on cloud security monitoring and cloud logging. I will try to define the subject(s) and then provide analysis and recommendations for architecting security monitoring of public cloud [...]

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