As cloud adoption and digital transformation increases, more sensitive data from applications is being stored in data containers. This is why effective container security controls to securely manage application connectivity is an absolute must. AlgoSec CTO and Co-Founder, Prof. Avishai Wool provides some useful container best practices to help you do just that. What is Container Security? Organizations, now more than ever, are adopting container technology. Instead of powering up servers and instances in the cloud, they are using containers to run business applications. Securing these is equally as important as securing other digital assets that the business is dependent…
Author: Avishai Wool
Avishai Wool
Professor Avishai Wool is CTO and co-founder of security policy management company AlgoSec. Prior to co-founding AlgoSec, Avishai co-founded Lumeta Corporation in 2000 as a spin-out of Bell Labs, and was its Chief Scientist until 2002. At Lumeta, Dr. Wool was responsible for transforming the firewall analyzer technology he had helped develop at Bell Labs into a commercial product. He has published more than 90 research papers and holds 13 US Patents, and has served on the program committee of the leading IEEE and ACM conferences on computer and network security. Dr. Wool has a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.
If you’re moving applications to the cloud, then you need to protect them and the data they process. Firewalls are the cornerstone of these security controls – but public or private cloud deployments present organizations with two main options for deploying firewalls. The first option is to use host-based firewalling. This means not using any built-in defenses in the cloud (such as the Amazon firewall in AWS public-cloud deployments, or VMware’s VSX in private cloud deployments) but instead put host-based firewalls on every virtual machine (VM) you have in the cloud environment. These firewall products could be the Microsoft firewall…
Examines some of the key security features of Amazon Web Services and provides tips on best practice If you’re considering migrating your business applications to a public cloud, the chances are that you’ve looked into Amazon Web Services. With its higher capacity and wide range of cloud services, AWS has become the most popular choice for businesses looking to take advantage of the scalability and cost-effective storage that cloud computing offers. Security in AWS is based on a shared responsibility model: Amazon provides and secures the infrastructure, and you are responsible for securing what you run on it. This model…
