Before You Commit to a Vendor, Consider Your Exit Strategy

Vendor lock-in. What is it? Vendor lock-in occurs when you adopt a product or service for your business, and then find yourself locked in, unable to easily transition to a competitor's product or service. Vendor lock-in is becoming more prevalent as we migrate from legacy IT models to the plethora of sophisticated cloud services offering rapid scalability and elasticity, while fueling creativity and minimizing costs

Key Takeaways from the NotPetya Malware Infection

When we talk about risk management, we are often fixated on protecting data confidentiality and mitigating related risks, but there are other equally compelling concerns, such as data availability. Consider the case of the NotPetya malware, which last year attacked the shipping giant Maersk among other companies.

FedRAMP: Friend or Foe for Cloud Security?

Cloud security is on everyone’s minds these days. You can’t go a day without reading about an organization either planning its move to the cloud or actively deploying a cloud-based architecture. A great example is the latest news about the US Department of Defense and its ongoing move to …

FedRAMP: Friend or Foe for Cloud Security?

Cloud security is on everyone’s minds these days. You can’t go a day without reading about an organization either planning its move to the cloud or actively deploying a cloud-based architecture. A great example is the latest news about the US Department of Defense and its ongoing move to the cloud.