The OODA loop diagram is a military strategy that has been popularized and applied to other stressful, high-risk situations, including network and cloud security breaches. The OODA loop was originally conceptualized by US Air Force Colonel John Boyd to help fighter pilots in combat scenarios gain an advantage over their [...]

The best time to plan and implement a cloud security strategy is before you migrate your data, applications, and infrastructure to a cloud provider. The second best time is right now. Though cloud security involves a lot of moving parts, understanding the cloud security basics is easy and can get [...]

Every major enterprise has a data protection compliance checklist. It's a necessity to stay up to date in any industry. Compliance failures can create a lot of problems, from fines and penalties to lost client trust. That checklist is the first line of defense to ensure adherence to a complex [...]

The principle of least privilege, or PoLP, is an information security philosophy that says any user, application, or process should have only the bare minimum network and system permissions necessary to perform its function. When you limit user and application access to only the necessities, you reduce the risk of [...]

Modern data pipelines are responsible for much more information than the systems of the past. Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created, and it needs somewhere to go. A data pipeline is a series of actions that drive raw input through a process that turns it into actionable [...]

Lean information security is a method of taking an older concept and applying it to new challenges in an organization. Data is a big part of it. Today, it represents one of a company's most significant assets—and its largest liability. Overall, data breaches cost companies $1.3 billion in 2019. That [...]

The first thing to know about cloud native Kubernetes is that it's not a plug-and-play option. Kubernetes doesn't provide any security benefit by default. It has a lot of supportive features, but that's never the primary focus. Where the program really shines is in its policy enforcement, which is essential [...]