THE MISSING SECURITY PRIMER FOR BARE METAL CLOUD SERVICES

December 20, 2018

Organizations are increasingly looking to move their IT infrastructure to the cloud. With the rise of bare-metal cloud offerings, organizations can easily scale up their operations in the cloud while retaining the confidence of having dedicated hardware. However, while the cloud removes the need to buy and manage this physical hardware, it also takes away some of the control organizations have traditionally enjoyed over their security. It can even introduce new security issues. While physical servers are dedicated to one customer at a time, they don’t stay that way forever. Servers are provisioned and reclaimed over time and naturally move from customer to customer.

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FirstWave Cloud Technology was born in the early 2000’s to address the burgeoning cloud security needs in the market. We delivered our first managed Security as a Service (SaaS) solutions in 2004 in a form similar to what we call “cloud” today. The journey started with a significant focus and investment in research and development with a vision to build a secure, highly accessible, and intelligent portal to quickly adapt to the ever-changing threat landscapes.

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