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Digital Life Insurance Company Leverages AWS to Disrupts Traditional Insurance Market
Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Life insurance purchasing rates are at their lowest in 50 years. The process of purchasing life insurance is notoriously complicated. It requires a lengthy application process, health checks, and can take weeks or months for approval. A new digital life insurance startup is looking to revolutionize the life insurance purchasing process. The company has introduced an easy online application process with immediate approval, which relies on innovative, custom software that can underwrite insurance instantly. Their goal is to disrupt the traditional life insurance market and appeal to younger consumers with a transparent, on-demand purchasing process ... Read More
Upcoming Cloud Events with Logicworks
Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; 2019 is off to a great start! Join the Logicworks team at one of the many events we will be attending this year. 2019 Tech Summits Join Logicworks as we sponsor the following Tech Summits. Each event will give you the opportunity to meet Logicworks AWS certified engineers, network with other IT leaders, discover the latest IT trends, and learn the knowledge needed to make the best possible decisions on behalf of your organization. Make sure to sign up as soon as possible to make sure that you will have a spot as seating is ... Read More
Why You Need an Azure Managed Services Provider

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; In the age of cloud, infrastructure has become a competitive differentiator. Companies that build scalable, repeatable, automated Azure clouds are able to get products to market faster and innovate with fewer risks. But many companies feel that this vision of innovation on the cloud is out of reach, mostly due to a lack of cloud expertise. In fact, 85% of IT executives say that greater cloud expertise would help them recoup the return on their cloud investment, and 71% believed their organizations have lost revenue due to a lack of cloud expertise. An Azure Managed ... Read More
48% of IT Teams Don’t Spend Enough Time on Security, According to New Report
Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle Engineers know that security is important, yet nearly half (48%) don’t have enough time to spend on security, according to a new report. This is not good news for security postures. This data reveals that organizations are increasingly at risk of a security incident — due to lack of time, not education or expertise. Report Highlights Need for Automated Security Organizations with mature DevOps practices are more likely to automate security, which ultimately improves the organization’s security posture. Mature DevOps teams are 350% more likely to integrate automated security throughout the deployment ... Read More
Logicworks Earns PCI-DSS Level 1 Certification for 8th Year
Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; We’re proud to announce that Logicworks has earned Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Level 1 Service Provider Certification for the 8th straight year! This certification indicates Logicworks’ continued commitment to providing cloud services for finance, insurance, and retail organizations. Logicworks has worked with a leading independent PCI Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC) to perform a comprehensive audit of Logicworks’ Managed AWS Cloud Service, Managed Azure Cloud Service, and our datacenter infrastructure, which hosts Managed Private Cloud customers. All three practices have achieved PCI DSS Certification. Logicworks’ PCI DSS Certification indicates that our ... Read More
[Webinar] Automating AWS with the Latest IaC Tools
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Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; If you’ve used AWS in the past, you know how simple it is to get started: provide some basic information, create your account, access that account, and before you know it, you’ll have your first cloud resource up and ready to serve content. However, when our environments become more complex — for instance, when the component list starts to rise or there are compliance needs — it’s no longer possible to continue to build our resources manually. It becomes tedious, time-consuming, and far too prone to human error. We must be able to automate infrastructure build-out. ... Read More
Logicworks Acheives ISO 27001 Certification
Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; NEW YORK, April 17, 2019 – Logicworks today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (ISO 27001) certification for its AWS managed cloud services, Azure managed cloud services and Private Cloud managed cloud services. ISO 27001 is an international standard for the establishment and certification of an information security management system. The standard requires that Logicworks demonstrate a systematic approach for implementing, operating, monitoring and improving security processes, and gives confidence to our customers that adequate and proportionate security controls are implemented. “Our customers have complex security and compliance requirements and expect their cloud partner to maintain the highest levels of ... Read More
What is Multi-Cloud?

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle What is multi-cloud? Multi-cloud is the use of two or more cloud computing services, including any combination of public, private, and hybrid. The end result is the capacity to orchestrate resources across multiple private or public cloud platforms that contain multiple cloud vendors, accounts, availability zones, or regions or premises. Why use multiple clouds? The three most important benefits of utilizing multiple clouds are: High availability – The multi-cloud provides protection for an organization’s data storage against threats. If a cloud is unavailable, other clouds remain online to run applications. Flexibility – ... Read More
How to Encrypt Existing Amazon S3 Objects with S3 Encryption

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jenelle Kemp, Technical Product Manager, Logicworks Everyone wants to keep their information safe. How can you make certain that the files you or your company have uploaded to the cloud are protected? The need for encryption has become foundational as companies move from private data centers to the cloud. It is a requirement for most compliance standards and may provide legal cover if there is a breach in security. However, many organizations run into trouble when their cloud storage contains a confusing mix of unencrypted and encrypted files – and no idea how they ... Read More
Global Hotel Chain Saves $100K+ on their AWS Bill with Logicworks

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; The hospitality industry is in the midst of a major technology disruption. Hotel chains are exploring data analytics, artificial intelligence, voice-based search, and other tools to transform the guest experience — and are investing heavily in cloud solutions to achieve their vision. A global hotel chain with over $1B in annual revenue was an early adopter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2012. The hotel chain’s IT team continually experiments with new products in order to deliver a more personalized customer experience, and have built a state-of-the-art, scalable, secure cloud platform on AWS to keep ... Read More
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