Understanding CIS Controls and Benchmarks: Key Examples
Blog updated for relevancy on 2-19-2025 When discussing cybersecurity or cyber defense, the terms CIS and security controls often come up as essential best practices
Adopting Multi-Cloud Services with Confidence
Cloud Adoption is a Journey I recently explored a report by Gartner, Top 10 Trends in PaaS and Platform Innovation, 2020, which I believe, talks
Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and Readiness Tool
What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and Readiness Tool? The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) was created based on the experiences of the
Building a Compliance Conscious Company
Cloud Compliance is Dependent on People and Technology Regulatory standards abound in the cloud. Healthcare has HIPAA, the federal government has FedRAMP, and financial companies
Security Challenges Come with Company-wide Remote Work
Cloud Security in the time of Covid Recent events have forced businesses to modernize; adopting IaaS and PaaS services at an increasing rate. Recently, Forbes
Governance and DevOps a Match, Who Knew?
Security and governance too often seem like sticks. If you don’t meet a requirement you are going to get beat over the head or worse… So,
Thinking Like a Security Minded Professional
A few weeks ago, I sat for the CompTia Security + Exam. Studying was grueling, since keeping information systems secure is difficult, to put it
OpsCompass: The New-Age IT Management Solution
“We have to find a way to work together…” Those were the thoughts going through my mind and those of my new colleague, John Grange,
Security vs. Compliance
Security vs. Compliance Ok, let’s start with the people that are very annoyed with the title. I know why, you’re probably thinking at the very
Operationalization of the Cloud Adoption Framework
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]OpsCompass was started because we saw a need for better Security and Business alignment for Enterprise workloads moving to the
