Five Steps to Securing Cloud Servers
Webinar featuring speakers from the Cloud Security Alliance, RightScale, and Centrify: A structured methodology for extending an organization's enterprise security infrastructure out to Amazon EC2
Many organizations are facing a Catch-22 when it comes to migrating applications to the cloud. They get the biggest ROI by moving business-critical apps that need to scale rapidly and on-demand. But these are precisely the applications that need the tightest security controls. Executive management is pressing for progress on cost savings, but sorting through the variety of security issues unique to cloud environments can be dauntingly complex.
The solution is to break the process of securing cloud servers into a set of well defined, achievable steps that enable IT organizations to securely extend their existing enterprise infrastructure out into their cloud environment.
In this free webinar, Ryan Holland of the Cloud Security Alliance will describe the key requirements for securing cloud systems. Uri Budnik, ISV Program Director at RightScale, will describe how RightScale's ServerTemplate and RightScripts can be used to automatically launch and provision cloud systems. And David McNeely, senior director of product management at Centrify, will then present a five-step process, using Amazon EC2 as an example, for using RightScripts to automate the provisioning of security policies, centralize account and privilege management, harden network access, audit systems, and implement enterprise-centric single sign-on.
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Ryan Holland Senior Technologist, Cloud Security Alliance Ryan Holland is an active, contributing member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and a senior technologist with Trend Micro, where he has held several roles in areas of data security and encryption technologies, and since 2009 has managed technical business development for Cloud and Data Center Security. Holland has also worked with ABS Consulting, a multinational risk consulting firm, and was responsible for designing and implementing security plans for edge and internal network devices. In addition, he held a DoD security clearance and was responsible for maintaining security on a classified network. Holland interacted with senior management, technical staff, and vendors to develop and implement network projects designed to improve security and increase network availability and performance. Holland holds a bachelor's of science in computer engineering from the University of California at Irvine and is certified under the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) program. |
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Uri Budnik Director, ISV Partner Program, RightScale Uri Budnik manages strategic relationships with ISVs for RightScale, Inc. Prior to RightScale, he co-founded and managed the datacenter infrastructure for a technology company that provides automated podcasting tools to newspapers and magazines. Before that, he held a variety of roles at Qwest Communications in the Internet services and data center division, including subject matter expert for complex hosting. Uri won the Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Marshall Business School of the University of Southern California and started a company based on that award-winning business plans. |
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David McNeely Centrify Director of Product Management As senior director of product management at Centrify, David McNeely works with customers to drive the roadmap for Centrify's award-winning identity and access management solutions. David has worked in the identity and access management market for over 16 years, holding various product marketing and management positions at ActiveIdentity, AOL, iPlanet and Netscape. At Netscape and iPlanet, he was the director of product management for the Directory and Security product line, where he first promoted the concept of a centralized directory for all identity and access management. |
