How to Negotiate a Proper SLA

Cloud computing offers massive scalability, availability and low-cost services as major benefits, but as with most new technologies, it introduces new risks. Because there is so much opportunity in the cloud, the cloud service provider network is continuously growing. Service providers are using different technologies, different standards, and like all companies have different competency levels.

A couple of the major challenges organizations have when using cloud computing is managing these third-party operational and security risks. As more technology is moved from your company’s infrastructure to cloud, understanding and management of these risks often overwhelms technology and procurement teams.

This can be managed if an effective third-party framework is put into place, appropriately managed and cross-organizational guidelines are being followed.

Security is a top priority for e-commerce giant Shopify, with over 600,000 businesses in 175 countries trusting them to sell online and everywhere in the world. Join Shopify's Vice President of Security Engineering and IT, Andrew Dunbar and HackerOne as they discuss best practices for testing and securing your cloud-based web applications. The session will also cover how you can scale application security for high-growth DevOps organizations and the tools and programs Shopify relies on to reduce security risk.

In this webinar, you’ll learn to:
- Develop and improve your application security strategy
- Discover and manage critical vulnerabilities effectively
- Scale security for high-growth organizations—with a DevOps methodology
- Identify systematic issues and root causes to reduce long-term risk

Ninety-one percent of organizations in a recent TechValidate survey say they have seen phishing attacks on their organization in the past year. What’s more, 42% report more than 10 phishing attacks on their network in that time. What can be done to reduce these risks and protect your data and users? Phishing simulation tools are a powerful way to see how many and which employees are prone to fall for phishing attacks. With this information in hand, you can determine how to train those who are susceptible to avoid these attempts, and provide the tools to protect against them.

In this webinar you'll hear from Steve Edwards, who manages Duo's Corporate Security Engineering team, on his experience conducting internal phishing campaigns at education and tech organizations. In addition to interesting metrics and appropriate techniques that come from phishing simulations, Steve has 10 valuable lessons to share. Join us on February 7 for this webinar to learn several unexpected things about phishing, your company, and human psychology.

Expecting your (relatively) small staff of security specialists we all have to handle security, risk management, and good governance entirely on their own is a recipe for disaster. While specialists are critical to ensuring products and processes are designed well, promote security, and ease compliance, real security and good governance requires dissemination of knowledge throughout the organization. To truly understand what you are securing, and who does that work, you have to play in their sandbox, integrate into their existing processes, remove overhead wherever possible, and gather that data, data, data… did I mention the data? To scale, push knowledge and requirements downstream as much as possible, in the language your teams can use.

To scale to properly meet evolving risk management and compliance challenges, your own teams need to operate as a service. Automate processes wherever possible to help capture the necessary data to ensure good security is happening – and constantly evolve and improve the quality of that information to ensure it is driving expected behavior. Flow that data into simple dashboards that can help executives understand that things are really working as expected, and where they need to take action. After all, if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. In this talk you’ll learn from Julia Knecht how Adobe was able to make this work in relatively short order and how you can take all of the best practices we learned and developed back to your organization and create your own “culture of security.”