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Cloud Security Best Practices In our series of cloud security best practices, we will be outlining some basic, actionable steps that organisations should consider when migrating to a new cloud infrastructure or securing their existing estate. This article will consider the role of user security via Identity and Access Management (IDAM). Principle 1: Secure Identity […]
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Cloud Computing Security Concerns With the rise of cloud computing, different concerns about adopting the cloud have arisen over the years. In 2016, the top concerns were pretty similar to previous years, though some have become higher or lower priority as the understanding of cloud computing has changed. Three of the top cloud computing concerns going into […]
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People often ask me, “Who uses OpenStack?” and “What are they using it for?” Perhaps that’s best answered by OpenStack’s own regular user survey. From there we can find the below chart, showing the breakdown of who uses OpenStack across sectors. Figure 1 Breakdown of users by sector (Source: https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf) The breakdown of who uses OpenStack across sectors […]
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