by Anton Chuvakin | February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’m tired of hearing quotes like “cloud is completely different from traditional IT” as well as those that say “cloud is just like outsourcing, mainframes, etc.” Those who like the former quote will sometimes add that organizations should scrap all the tools they use for traditional IT and buy new tools for the cloud. Those [...]
Category: cloud monitoring security Tags: cloud security, security, security monitoring
by Anton Chuvakin | February 7, 2012 | 42 Comments
As you learned from my previous posts related to security monitoring of public cloud assets, there are challenges related to monitoring data availability as well as data interpretation. IaaS environments – such as the well-known ecommerce-retailer-turned-cloud-provider as well as other cloud service providers (CSPs) – offer an interesting challenge that I call “IaaS conundrum.” To [...]
Category: cloud monitoring security Tags: cloud security, security, security monitoring
by Anton Chuvakin | February 2, 2012 | 20 Comments
Everybody knows what “network security monitoring” actually is (even if not everybody is DOING it…). There is a whole book on the subject. In addition, there is a shared understanding in security community about it. Specifically, NSM includes various logs/alerts, packets, flows, session captures, etc. However, what is “application security monitoring” (ASM)? As I am [...]
Category: application monitoring security Tags: application security, security, security monitoring
