RightScale Enterprise Security Features Unleashed

We have been busy this summer working on a number of security- and governance-related features for our Enterprise Edition customers, who are typically large organizations that have well-defined internal user identity and compliance structures. With the latest RightScale release, we have improved or added on to the following features: Managed SSH Login Single Sign-On with SAML API-Based Authentication with OAuth 2.0 The combination of the three …

August 8, 2012 Flexera

Performing Security Testing in the Cloud

Security testing is one aspect of a security program that is often overlooked. Organizations who take security seriously understand that testing systems and applications is just smart business. We felt that one way we could help our customers is to describe the process, and nuances, that we go through during our testing. Since RightScale runs in the cloud, the information should help any RightScale customer accomplish the same tasks on their envi…

August 4, 2011 Flexera

Amazon EC2 Outage: Summary and Lessons Learned

Last Thursday’s Amazon EC2 outage was the worst in cloud computing’s history. It made the front page of many news pages, including the New York Times, probably because many people were shocked by how many web sites and services rely on EC2. Seeing so much affected was a very graphical illustration of how pervasive cloud computing has become. I will try to summarize what happened, what worked and didn’t work, and what to learn fr…

April 25, 2011 Flexera