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Mar 2, 2021
Expert Advice from AWS Partner Solutions Architect On Securing Amazon S3
We are excited to announce that Rob Melka Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be a guest speaker for our webinar: Securing Amazon S3 in the Age of Covid 19. The emergence of Amazon S3 as the center pin of cloud applications and the increase of cyber-attacks during the Covid 19 pandemic have converged to make Amazon S3 an emerging threat vector for malware and viruses.
Cloud Storage SecuritySep 14, 2020
Protect Your Amazon S3 Buckets
There is no doubt that as each day goes by, more and more data is migrating into cloud storage. The public cloud, or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as some call it, has become the new normal. Out of all the data store service providers out there like Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage, the largest by far is Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). It has gotten so large that AWS acknowledged their store capacity in the excess of exabytes of storage and trillions of objects. Imagine the size of the earth is measured as one gigabyte. Then the size of the sun would be equivalent to an exabyte. It’s hard to imagine...
Cloud Storage SecurityJul 29, 2020
Amazon S3 Security Best Practices
The Shared Responsibility Model for Object Storage As malware attack vectors continue to grow and more and more security features are built above and below the delineation of “Security of the Cloud” (provided by AWS) and “Security in the Cloud” (your job), security teams will need to ensure a proper framework to protect their applications and data.
Cloud Storage SecurityJun 20, 2020
Antivirus for Amazon S3, the Blind Spot in Cloud Storage
Positively impacting shareholder value is every CEO’s dream. Negatively impacting shareholder value is every CISO’s nightmare. As more and more data moves to the cloud, additional threat vectors to customer data must be considered. Threats that include malware and viruses for Amazon S3. At the 2018 AWS re:Invent Keynote, AWS S3 VP, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec acknowledged the “tens of trillions of objects” exceeding “exabytes of storage” are being used on Amazon S3. It is hard not to argue Amazon S3 is one of the most successful services provided by AWS. AWS has unlimited emphasis ensuring your data is safe. Customers and AWS leverage many native features and security frameworks including redundancy, bucket permissions, encryption and duplication across regions and availability zones.
Cloud Storage Security