Building a Secure Cloud - Best practices: Data Security, Governance and BCDR

Fraunhofer Institute, a leading German research organization, identified 30% of virtual machines sampled on a leading public cloud were vulnerable to attack due to incorrect configurations by the user. The article further states: "The problem clearly lies in the customers’ unawareness and not in Amazon Web Services." With the long list of existing cloud services and the rapid innovation of new cloud services, how can you make sure to engineer security and reliability into your cloud solutions from the get go? This session will drill deep on the following topics: - The key public cloud architecture principles that apply to all workloads - Architecting for business continuity and how to adjust availability and cost with business seasons - How to protect your data in the cloud, providing data loss prevention and disaster recovery - Demo of an enterprise class business solution in the public cloud Frank Stienhans is an early cloud adopter and CTO of Ocean9. He is fluent on both Azure and AWS and concepts and examples will cover both clouds.