Tag: compliance

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The CIS suite from PuppetPuppet's suite of products offers a three step approach to ensuring and proving CIS Benchmark compliance: Puppet Comply: Puppet Comply includes the CIS scanner to determine compliance on each managed node in your Puppet estate. Puppet Comply allows you to scan against each CIS Benchmark, and to customize Benchmarks to assess real-work implementations of Benchmarks, including recommended Controls that simply aren't practical (e.g. a legacy system where telnet is required). This allows you to document and track accepted exceptions to specific Controls and demonstrate compliance against these tailored Benchmarks ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now use Amazon FinSpace in applications that are subject to System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliance. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. You can download the AWS SOC reports in AWS Artifact. To learn more, visit AWS Compliance Programs, or you can go to the AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program webpage to see a full list of services covered by each compliance program. Amazon FinSpace is a fully managed analytics service for financial services customers that makes it easy for analysts to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; It wouldn’t have been Cybersecurity Awareness month without some spooky-themed blogs with language focused on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD). Luckily, this isn’t that kind of blog, but what was true in October is still true today. I won’t tell you that you need to be afraid of bad actors infiltrating your security defenses and wreaking havoc in your infrastructure. Why? Because you are likely stressed enough already. Don’t you think? Let’s talk about problems (because those are very real) and outline solutions instead. It’s time for action. The first way to combat ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Danny Hales. Companies across industries face distinct problems as regulatory obligations, corporate standards, and best practices evolve at a breakneck pace. It is not enough to comply with present regulations in highly regulated industries like financial services—companies must predict and plan for forthcoming regulations that will affect all elements of business operations and systems. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance has unquestionably been one of the top priorities for authorities overseeing financial institutions around the world. The legislative measures aimed to combat current money laundering and terrorist funding schemes have changed and become more sophisticated as AML ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Danny Hales. Companies across industries face distinct problems as regulatory obligations, corporate standards, and best practices evolve at a breakneck pace. It is not enough to comply with present regulations in highly regulated industries like financial services—companies must predict and plan for forthcoming regulations that will affect all elements of business operations and systems. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance has unquestionably been one of the top priorities for authorities overseeing financial institutions around the world. The legislative measures aimed to combat current money laundering and terrorist funding schemes have changed and become more sophisticated as AML ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Danny Hales. Companies across industries face distinct problems as regulatory obligations, corporate standards, and best practices evolve at a breakneck pace. It is not enough to comply with present regulations in highly regulated industries like financial services—companies must predict and plan for forthcoming regulations that will affect all elements of business operations and systems. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance has unquestionably been one of the top priorities for authorities overseeing financial institutions around the world. The legislative measures aimed to combat current money laundering and terrorist funding schemes have changed and become more sophisticated as AML ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DynamoDB now helps you meet regulatory compliance and business continuity requirements through enhanced backup features, including copying on-demand backups cross-account and cross-Region, cost allocation tagging for backups, and transitioning backups to cold storage. In addition, backups managed through AWS Backup are now stored in the AWS Backup vault, which allows you to encrypt and secure your backups by using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key that is independent from your DynamoDB table encryption key. You can use on-demand backups to create full backups of your DynamoDB tables with a single click, and with zero impact on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Diego Colombatto. By Diego Colombatto, Partner Solution Architect – AWSBy Souvik Khamaru, Executive Security Architect – IBM Cloud Security Centre of Competency IBM This post describes a solution created by IBM during the migration of a big data and analytics platform for one of the top 10 banks worldwide. The primary drivers were cost efficiency, business agility, and performance. The bank’s setup was based on premises and they decided to migrate the setup to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its cloud-first initiative. As part of the migration, one of the challenges ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. And while compliance is often under the mantel of legal, compliance, risk management, or other departments, IT is certain to be involved in any organization’s compliance efforts.CIOs and other top tech executives must be aware of all regulations that involve data, privacy, security, and other technology elements. They can play a key role in ensuring their organizations don’t get hit with hefty fines for non-compliance.IT executives at healthcare and related sectors for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shiva Vaidyanathan. By Shiva Vaidyanathan, Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWSBy Vaishali Ghiya, Head of Sales and Business Development – AWS MarketplaceBy Jigar Shah, VP Products – Valtix Valtix As you look to manage network security on Amazon Web Services (AWS), there are multiple tools you can use to protect your resources and keep data safe. For example, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), security groups, network access control lists (NACLs), AWS WAF, and the AWS Network Firewall all offer layered security of protection for your AWS workloads. Conventional security products such as next ... Read More