Auditing and securing hundreds of cloud environments over the years has taught me a crucial lesson. If there is one reality I drill into every engineering team I work with, it’s this: securing distributed workloads is no longer just about configuring perimeter firewalls and closing ports. In fact, if you think a Web Application Firewall … Read more
Enterprise migrations and architecture audits on Alibaba Cloud over the past decade have exposed a critical reality for global organizations. Engineering teams love the platform. Why? The physical infrastructure is rock solid, the Asia-Pacific footprint is unmatched, and the pricing models let you stretch a compute budget further than you ever could on AWS or … Read more
Over the past decade, my career has revolved around architecting, breaking, and rescuing cloud environments across the globe. When it comes to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), there is very little left to the imagination. Script kiddies testing out cheap stresser services are common, but grueling, multi-hour incident response calls while state-sponsored actors drop 3 … Read more