Author: LogicWorks

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Comprehensive Analysis and Remediation Service to Help Maintain Regulatory StandardsLogicworks, a leading compliant cloud services provider, today released its comprehensive Compliance Assessment product for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure customers. The service programmatically discovers all of the customer’s cloud resources, scores them against common regulatory compliance standards including HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, NIST, ISO, SOC2, and CIS to provide a detailed report with remediation actions needed to improve the customer’s compliance posture.“Our customers leverage our cloud compliance expertise to help them keep pace with and navigate the complexity of maintaining compliance in ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; by Phil Christensen, Sr. Solutions Architect, LogicworksFor many companies, it is more efficient to create multiple AWS accounts for different departments, teams, or projects rather than a single large AWS account. Doing so makes it easier to separate critical data from sandbox environments, and helps to limit the blast radius from a critical security event. Still, maintaining multiple AWS accounts can require a lot of annoying administrative setup and is prone to configuration drift. In 2018, AWS has launched a series of new services to make that easier. Last month, AWS announced ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; It seems that every month, another healthcare company is hacked. In fact, 1.13M records were exposed by 110 healthcare data breaches in Q1 2018 alone.Why the constant parade of security flaws? Why is the theft of millions of health records so commonplace?At Logicworks, we’ve spent the last 25 years helping companies prepare for – and defend against – potential attacks. Here are five reasons why this problem won’t just go away.1. Systems are old and complexThe biggest reason healthcare companies are not paying more attention to cybersecurity is exactly what you’d expect: ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; AWS Summit NY 2018. Photo Credit: LogicworksAWS has launched over a thousand major service updates in 2018 and launched nearly a dozen new services. (And it’s only July.)As services are announced, the team at Logicworks immediately starts trying out new features and discussing them with clients. Here are the services that our AWS Certified Engineers are talking about from the last quarter: AWS Landing ZoneAWS Landing Zone is a service that automates the set-up of a multi-account AWS environment, by helping you implement an initial security baseline across AWS IAM, data security, ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Sports media organizations have always been early adopters of new technology. Innovations in VR, machine learning, and AI can be seen in everything from Major League Baseball’s Statcast to VR at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.But hyper-personalized experiences, mobile streaming video, and real-time data require high performing, scalable infrastructure — and traditional datacenters often can’t keep up.A major national sports organization recently approached Logicworks with an urgent goal: migrate out of an inflexible, unreliable, and expensive hosting platform (Rackspace) and onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). The project has resulted in huge gains in ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; When you go to the emergency room, how do doctors distinguish your name and medical records from someone else with the same name? The answer is that the hospital relies on an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI), a centralized patient matching platform used to identify and accurately link disconnected patient data across multiple systems and sites of care. It’s a critical component of any healthcare provider’s patient database or Health Information Exchange (HIE).NextGate is the global leader in healthcare enterprise identification software. Recently, they became the only provider of a fully-managed, cloud-based ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Every public cloud service is susceptible to outages. It is possible to design fail-over systems on AWS with lower fixed costs than an on-premises DR solution and zero single points of failure. Ideally, failure of an entire datacenter or Availability Zone in AWS does not affect the availability of the application.In traditional IT environments, engineers might duplicate mission-critical tiers to achieve resiliency. This can cost thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain and is not even the most effective way to achieve resiliency.Hundreds of small activities contribute to the overall ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; HITRUST CSF Certification validates Logicworks’ commitment to meeting key regulations and protecting sensitive information.NEW YORK, May 22, 2018 — Logicworks, a leading compliant cloud services provider, today announced that their automation and management services on Amazon Web Services (AWS)1 have earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that the aforementioned organization’s AWS services have met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places Logicworks in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; How do you build compliant architecture on the public cloud? And how do you maintain compliance as your cloud grows and changes? These are key questions for many companies — and their ability to confidently satisfy these questions can both reduce business risk and be a key differentiator to end customers.That is why Logicworks offers a Compliance Assessment for AWS and Azure customers. Companies that approach us have often already built out an environment on the cloud, and either have a new customer that demands a certain compliance framework, or want to ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Docker orchestration tools and serverless are getting a lot of hype — but what’s the best tool for your application, and how do you actually deploy them on AWS?In a half-day workshop on 5/16 in Boston and 5/17 in NYC, you will learn the differences and use-cases for serverless, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or traditional AWS EC2 deployments from a Sr. Engineer who has built hundreds of environments for large companies on AWS.Understand when to use Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes vs. AWS ECSGet an overview of AWS ECS, EKS, Lambda, and ... Read More