Closing the Cloud Security Readiness Gap:
Gaining Consistency Across Disparate Environments
The composition of cloud-native applications is a mix of APIs, containers, VMs, and serverless functions continuously integrated and delivered. Securing these applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the automation platforms that orchestrate their deployment, necessitates revisiting threat models, gaining organizational alignment, and leveraging purposeful controls. Additionally, as security and DevOps continue to converge, cloud security controls are being consolidated. Project teams are evolving from a siloed approach to a unified strategy to securing cloud-native applications and platforms.
In order to gain insight into these trends, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) surveyed 383 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for evaluating or purchasing cloud security technology products and services.
Closing the Cloud Security Readiness Gap:
Gaining Consistency Across Disparate Environments
The composition of cloud-native applications is a mix of APIs, containers, VMs, and serverless functions continuously integrated and delivered. Securing these applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the automation platforms that orchestrate their deployment, necessitates revisiting threat models, gaining organizational alignment, and leveraging purposeful controls. Additionally, as security and DevOps continue to converge, cloud security controls are being consolidated. Project teams are evolving from a siloed approach to a unified strategy to securing cloud-native applications and platforms.
In order to gain insight into these trends, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) surveyed 383 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for evaluating or purchasing cloud security technology products and services.
Your MDM Doesn’t Want You to Read This (But We Do!)
If you’ve ever worked with an MDM (Mobile Device Management) to build and manage an Android device fleet, you know how one-sided that relationship becomes once your hardware is in the field. You also know that’s because MDMs are built on a model that chiefly rewards shipping devices, not supporting them. It’s hard to blame them, either — in a world where getting devices to the edge has become a critical concern across dozens of industries, hardware talks. But if you’re scaling a mission critical Android device fleet, you’re already asking the kind of hard questions your MDM probably isn’t very eager to answer.
MDM is Dead. It’s Time to Shift to Android DevOps
Alright, so maybe not completely dead, but Mobile Device Management (MDM) - while necessary - cannot (alone) meet the needs of innovative, agile businesses, especially when customer experience and value are on the line.
With MDM, you can’t control the intake of changes to a fleet - risking widespread downtime - or debug your applications in real-time to prevent poor user experience. Enter Android DevOps where quality and speed are at the heart of dedicated device management.
According to Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft Azure, “For a DevOps team...everything they do is about making a customer’ experience better.” Android DevOps enables businesses to focus on their business - not the platform - so they can deliver the ultimate customer experience.
Continue reading to learn more about how making the shift to Android DevOps can help you get back to what matters most: delighting your customers.
For more information about the advantages of Android DevOps reach out to Esper.
How Strong is Your MDM Security?
6 Layer MDM Cybersecurity Self-Assessment
MDM security in 2020 must be dynamic. You need the flexibility to deploy and manage single-purpose Android devices according to use cases. MDM should offer features to completely wipe and re-provision devices at any given point during the device lifecycle. Most importantly, MDM security should allow real-time or automated response based on insights into devices, apps, and user behaviors.
According to the 2020 Verizon Mobile Security Index (MSI), 66% of organizations admit a mobile cybersecurity issue has spiraled into a “significant organizational calamity” in the past, Your chances of experiencing a mobile cybersecurity incident in the next two years are 28%.
Your mobile security risks vary depending on device type, industry, and most importantly, use case. Pay attention to this 42-point checklist to determine if your MDM security is at risk.
Navigating the 7 Pitfalls of Incident Management
Technology organizations are constantly under pressure to do more with less. With the explosion in both complexity and quantity of applications and digital infrastructure teams need to support, it’s becoming even more critical for IT teams to invest in automation. Explore seven painful anti-patterns that can get in the way of automating incident response for faster resolution and fewer escalations. Learn how you can:
- Prevent Incidents and Reduce Incident Duration
- Reduce the Cost of Response
- Share Knowledge and Continuously Improve
Learn how to tackle these issues to help your team achieve faster resolution and fewer incidents.
Self-Service Operations
The speed, flexibility, and security controls dictated by today's business demands can't be met with the old practices that Operations has historically relied on. Self-Service operations is a key design pattern that allows organizations to move faster, be more flexible and lock things down. Read this ebook to learn how self-service operations allows you to:
- Distribute and align operations activity to unlock the full potential of your people and move as fast as your business demands.
- Experience fewer interruptions and less waiting, resulting in getting more done.
Learn why Self-Service operations is a straightforward, yet powerful operating model that should be in every IT leader’s playbook.
What is Runbook Automation?
Operations teams feel beat down from working in a high pressure environment with tons of requests and rework. What will Runbook Automation do for your operations?
- Less waiting and quicker turnaround times — Replace "open a ticket and wait" with "here's the button to do it yourself."
- Fewer interruptions and escalations— Cut down on the repetitive requests that disrupt your already overworked subject matter experts and delay other work.
- Shorter incidents — Enable those closest to the problem to take action quickly and effectively.
Learn how Runbook automation can easily translate expert operations knowledge into automated procedures that anyone in your organization can execute on-demand.
Global automotive pioneer modernizes services with containers and DevOps
See how Ford Motor Company built a security-focused container platform to speed service delivery and reduce hardware costs with Red Hat and Sysdig.
What do your Peers have to Say about One Identity Safeguard
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an established security countermeasure, but the current threat environment and compliance burdens render manual approaches to PAM inadequate. A PAM solution is now essential. A range of choices is available, with the next generation offering the best functionality with the least friction.
This paper examines the factors that go into selecting a PAM solution, based on experiences described by One Identity Safeguard users on IT Central Station. They recommend assessing a potential PAM solution for its ease of deployment and use, its transparency, scalability, and ability to work with existing IT and business operations.
2020 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for PAM
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is one of the most important areas of risk management and security in any organization. Privileged accounts have traditionally been given to administrators to access critical data and applications. But, changing business practices, hybrid IT, cloud and other aspects of digital transformation has meant that users of privileged accounts have become more numerous and widespread. To reduce the risk of privileged accounts being hijacked or fraudulently used, and to uphold stringent regulatory compliance within an organization, a strong PAM solution is essential.
This report is an overview of the market for Privilege Access Management (PAM) solutions and provides a compass to help buyers find the solution that best meets their needs. KuppingerCole examines the market segment, vendor functionality, relative market share, and innovative approaches to providing PAM solutions.
Global automotive pioneer modernizes services with containers and DevOps
See how Ford Motor Company built a security-focused container platform to speed service delivery and reduce hardware costs with Red Hat and Sysdig.
Webinar – How to build a world-class API ecosystem
Today’s most successful organizations recognize that the experience they create for the participants in their API ecosystem will determine their success or failure. APIs are the new products and to treat them as such, a critical step in your journey is building a next-gen developer portal.
MuleSoft, in partnership with ProgrammableWeb, has developed a baseline methodology covering best practices to help you create a state of the art developer experience. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform can help you implement these best practices to win the hearts and minds of your developers.
We’ll cover how to:
- Create a communication hub for your API ecosystem
- Onboard developers with low friction experiences powered by Exchange and API Community Manager
- Establish and signal trust through a developer relations strategy
- Support users in developing their products using your APIs
Presented By:
Varun Krovvidi, Product Marketing Manager, MuleSoft
Matt McLarty, Global Lead of API Strategy, MuleSoft
Webinar – A CIO guide to maximizing the value of integration and APIs
From our work with thousands of enterprise customers around the world, we’ve learned that API-led connectivity brings major benefits like increased speed, agility, and scalability. Now, CIOs and chief architects across all industries can measure these benefits objectively. In this webinar, Forrester consultant Corey McNair and MuleSoft head of advisory services Brandon Cohan will provide an overview on the quantifiable outcomes of MuleSoft’s API-led connectivity approach and unique methodology. Along the way, they’ll reveal best practices and frameworks for articulating the value of integration and APIs.
- In this webinar, you’ll discover:
- How to measure the platform benefits and business outcomes of API-led connectivity.
- The results of Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, which found 445% ROI for customers using Anypoint Platform.
- An integration value framework to help IT leaders structure, calculate, and articulate the business impact of their integration efforts.
- Presented by:
- Brandon Cohan, Head of Advisory Services, North America West & North, MuleSoft
- Corey McNair, TEI Consultant, Forrester
Report – Forrester Total Economic Impact of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study found enterprise customers realize 445% ROI with MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform over three years. Download this report for an analysis of the total value of integration for enterprise customers.
Key customer benefits:
- $7.8M in benefits within three years.
- 4X projects worked on over three years.
- 90% developer time freed from maintaining APIs and integrations.
- The Total Economic Impact™ Of MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2019.