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Phish Fight: Securing Enterprise Communications

Yes, much of the world may have moved on from email to social media and culturally dubious TikTok dances, yet traditional electronic mail remains a foundation of business communication. And sadly, it remains a prime vector for malware, data leakage, and phishing attacks that can undermine enterprise protections. It doesn’t have to be that way. In a just released report titled “ GigaOm Radar for Phishing Prevention and Detection ,” GigaOm Analyst Simon Gibson surveyed more than a dozen enterprise-focused email security solutions. He found a range of approaches to securing communications that often can be fitted together to provide critical, defense-in-depth protection against even determined attackers. Figure 1. GigaOm Radar for Email Phishing Prevention and Detection “When evaluating these vendors and their solutions, it is important to consider your own business and workflow,” Gibson writes in the report, stressing the need to deploy solutions that best address your organization’

Lights Out: Why Your Next Data Center May Be Hands-Free

Could we be entering an era of hands-free data centers, where remote software and robotics handle tasks that until now have fallen to human technicians? That prospect may not be as far off as you think, according to a recent InformationWeek article by John Edwards that explores the push to make data centers autonomous. As Edwards reports, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped force the issue, with data centers worldwide operating at sharply reduced headcount. GigaOm Analyst Ned Bellavance was cited in the article. He urged IT managers to establish the proper foundation for an automation effort, cautioning that existing data center deployments may be difficult to transition to full hands-free operation. He stressed that a homogeneous and standardized environment is important to achieving success. As a case in point, Bellavance singles out Microsoft’s Project Natick, an effort to develop enclosed data centers that can be deployed in coastal waters on the seafloor. Microsoft in 2018 deploy

When Is a DevSecOps Vendor Not a DevSecOps Vendor?

DevOps’ general aim is to enable a more efficient process for producing software and technology solutions and bringing stakeholders together to speed up delivery. But we know from experience that this inherently creative, outcome-driven approach often forgets about one thing until too late in the process—security. Too often, security is brought into the timeline just before deployment, risking last minute headaches and major delays. The security team is pushed into being the Greek chorus of the process, “ruining everyone’s fun” by demanding changes and slowing things down. But as we know, in the complex, multi-cloud and containerized environment we find ourselves in, security is becoming more important and challenging than ever. And the costs of security failure are not only measured in slower deployment, but in compliance breaches and reputational damage. The term “DevSecOps” has been coined to characterize how security needs to be at the heart of the DevOps process. This is in part

Courting Visibility: Value Stream Management

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” It’s an old management saw, but one rooted in truth, especially in the arena of software development where establishing a common vision and language of success can be so important. DevOps practices have for years given organizations a model for linking and streamlining processes, enabling both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). But as GigaOm VP of Research Jon Collins explains, businesses still struggle with understanding the actual value derived from these processes. In his recent Strategy Considerations report, “ Driving Value Through Visibility ,” Jon emphasizes that delivering on innovation requires more than moving from a project to a product mindset. It hinges on the ability to measure success, across both the products you create and the processes you use to create them. “Across organizations today, we’re seeing DevOps have to up the ante—to move beyond simply doing things faster and towards enabling softw

Application Modernization: A GigaOm Field Test

So-called legacy software gets that name for a reason—it’s done enough for the organization over the years to earn a legacy enabling the business. But as GigaOm Analyst Ned Bellavance notes in a recently published GigaOm benchmark report (“ Costs and Benefits of .NET Application Migration to the Cloud ”), aging on-premises applications and infrastructure can work against businesses as they seek to scale, innovate, and grow. A cloud modernization effort can change that. By migrating application logic and functionality to the cloud, enterprises avail themselves of the matchless scalability and managed services offered by major cloud providers. In the report, Bellevance lays out four options for organizations looking to cloudify their application portfolios. Figure 1: Cloud Application Modernization Spectrum Rehost: “Lift-and-shift” virtual machines running on on-premises servers to cloud-based servers. Simple and quick. Replatform: Migrate application logic (say, ASP.NET apps) t

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