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Brien Posey shares best practices for keeping a handle on EC2 security groups -- essentially software firewalls -- to avoid confusion about which ones are actually needed. As organizations create and ...

Although the EC2 console doesn't make it super obvious, you can assign multiple security groups to an individual VM instance. As such, some organizations like to create extremely granular security ...

Instead of building its own infrastructure, managed security service provider Referentia Systems is taking a more cost-effective approach. Announced last week, the Honolulu, Hawaii-based service ...

HOUSTON – March 20, 2012 – Alert Logic, a leader in delivering Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, today announced general availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and ActiveWatch for Amazon Web ...

For those unfamiliar, Amazon EC2 Mac instances allow individuals and organizations to run macOS workloads in the cloud based on Amazon Web Services. Customers can choose to run instances based on ...

Here’s a fascinating analysis of just how much business Amazon’s EC2 cloud services has. It’s worth a read. Cloud blogger Guy Rosen deduces the meaning of EC2 resource identifiers and uses them to ...

Businesses looking at using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for pay-as-you-go servers can now add Symantec security, backup and storage protection. The Symantec anti-malware, back-up and storage ...

Amazon says it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.