#cloudgovernance

Robert Eriksson 🇪🇺

@roberik.bsky.social

4 days ago

#finops #focus #cloud #databricks #kubernetes #cloudgovernance #techcommunity #meetup #norway #sigmatechnology #wemaketechnologyusable | Robert Eriksson Great meetup at FinOps Community Norway today, featuring a comprehensive agenda covering frameworks, data platforms, and Kubernetes cost governance. Ahlam Alame and Noorulzahraa (Noora) Qasim Abbas k...

Great meetup at #FinOps Community #Norway today, featuring a comprehensive agenda covering frameworks, data platforms, and #Kubernetes cost governance.

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#Focus #Cloud #Databricks #CloudGovernance #TechCommunity #Meetup #SigmaTechnology #WeMakeTechnologyUsable

WesterCloud

@westercloud.bsky.social

4 days ago

More tools don't mean more security. Tool sprawl creates noise where nothing is urgent. Security is a design challenge, not a procurement one. Rationalize: fewer tools, more clarity, and true ownership. Ready for real resilience? Contact us! #CloudGovernance #CTO #FinOps #SecurityByDesign

@vaxowave.bsky.social

1 week ago

Secure your cloud landing zones today, and move forward knowing your cloud is built on a strong, resilient security foundation.

#CloudSecurity #DataSecurity #CloudLandingZone #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity #CloudGovernance #Vaxowave

InfoTransec

@infotransec.bsky.social

1 week ago

Cloud Security - InfoTransec Protect your data with advanced cloud security services that ensure continuous monitoring, identity governance, and threat detection across

Enterprises run AWS, Azure, SaaS
Few scale security maturity at the same pace.

We still see:
• Over-permissioned IAM
• Shadow cloud
• Misconfigured storage
• Weak monitoring

Cloud security requires governance — not just tools.

Learn more:
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#CloudGovernance #IAM #CyberRisk

WesterCloud

@westercloud.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Budget alerts are your best friend in the cloud. No more “Oops” moments when the monthly bill arrives, but predictability and control. Set alerts per subscription or workload to increase cost awareness, drive ownership, and focus on ROI instead of surprises. #FinOps #CloudStrategy #CloudGovernance

The Quality Group

@the-quality-group.bsky.social

1 month ago

Warum Insellösungen so verlockend sind Insellösungen wirken attraktiv: Schnell eingeführt, klar abgegrenzt, überschaubar. Doch sie erzeugen langfristig genau das, was Verwaltungen vermeiden wollen: Komplexität, Abhängigkeiten und Intranspa...

Insellösungen wirken attraktiv: Schnell eingeführt, klar abgegrenzt, überschaubar.

Doch sie erzeugen langfristig genau das, was Verwaltungen vermeiden wollen: Komplexität, Abhängigkeiten und Intransparenz.

#CloudGovernance #Digitalisierung #eGovernment #PublicSector #DMS #TQG #Verwaltung #Behörden

it business

@itbusiness-schweiz.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cloud wird strategisch – «it business» – Meldungen aus der ICT-Welt

Cloud ist Alltag, aber nicht trivial. Eine aktuelle PwC Studie zeigt, warum Governance, Kostenkontrolle und KI Bereitschaft wichtiger werden als reine Migration.

#PwC #Cloud #Studie #ITStrategie #CloudGovernance #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #Digitalisierung #Schweiz

Halexo Ltd

@halexo.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cloud waste is often not a tooling problem. It is a governance problem. If about 27% of spend is wasted, the fix is continuous optimization: schedules, cleanup automation, and cost ownership per service. Make cost a KPI, not a surprise.

#CloudOptimization #FinOps #CloudGovernance #Automation #SaaS

AI Daily Post

@aidailypost.com

2 months ago

Indian IT giants are turning data platforms into IP gold, even as they lean on cloud partners for AI & ML PoCs. See how Bangalore’s Dell teams are shaping governance & the next wave of innovation. #DataPlatforms #AI #CloudGovernance

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EkasCloud – Personalized Training Platform

@ekascloud.bsky.social

2 months ago

🔐 Cloud Security Risk Assessment: Protecting Data in the Digital Cloud
#CloudSecurity #RiskAssessment #CyberSecurity #CloudRisk #DataProtection #CloudCompliance #SecurityBestPractices #CloudGovernance #AWSecurity #InfoSec #SecureCloud

EkasCloud – Personalized Training Platform

@ekascloud.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cloud Security Risk Assesment The unprecedented shock to world markets in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely permanently change the way we work. Millions must work from home, and businesses are scrambling to find way...

Cloud Security Risk Assesment
www.ekascloud.com/our-blog/clo...
#CloudSecurity #RiskAssessment #CloudRisk #CyberSecurity #DataProtection #CloudCompliance #SecurityBestPractices #CloudGovernance #AWSecurity #InfoSec #CloudInfrastructure #ZeroTrust #SecurityAwareness

Sanjay Mohindroo

@sanjaymohindroo.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cloud Data Governance: The Real Art of Balance in a Fast Digital World. A bold and sharp view on cloud data governance, with a deep call to rethink control, speed, and trust in a shifting digital world.

Cloud data control and cloud speed can work in one frame. Here’s how leaders can strike that balance with clarity and purpose. #CloudGovernance #DataTrust #CloudStrategy #DataQuality #TechLeadership
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-...

@skmohindroo.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cloud Data Governance: The Real Art of Balance in a Fast Digital World. A bold and sharp view on cloud data governance, with a deep call to rethink control, speed, and trust in a shifting digital world.

Cloud data control and cloud speed can work in one frame. Here’s how leaders can strike that balance with clarity and purpose. #CloudGovernance #DataTrust #CloudStrategy #DataQuality #TechLeadership
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-...

Sanjay Mohindroo

@sanjaymohindroo.bsky.social

2 months ago

The Hidden Pulse of the Cloud: How to Manage Shadow Networking in Cloud-Native Worlds. Shadow networking shapes how cloud-native systems grow. This post reveals why hidden paths form and how clarity can reshape trust, speed, and flow.

Hidden network paths shape the cloud. Clarity brings control. Share your thoughts on how you face this drift. #ShadowNetworking #ZeroTrust #PlatformEngineering #CloudSecurity #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudGovernance #ZeroTrustArchitecture #DigitalTransformation
www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden...

@skmohindroo.bsky.social

2 months ago

The Hidden Pulse of the Cloud: How to Manage Shadow Networking in Cloud-Native Worlds. Shadow networking shapes how cloud-native systems grow. This post reveals why hidden paths form and how clarity can reshape trust, speed, and flow.

Hidden network paths shape the cloud. Clarity brings control. Share your thoughts on how you face this drift. #ShadowNetworking #ZeroTrust #PlatformEngineering #CloudSecurity #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudGovernance
www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden...

CONSULTANCY SUPPORT SERVICES (CS2) LIMITED

@cs2ng.bsky.social

3 months ago

Our sovereignty is only as strong as our server location.
#DigitalSovereignty #DataLocalization #AfricanInfrastructure #TechPolicy #CloudGovernance

EkasCloud – Personalized Training Platform

@ekascloud.bsky.social

3 months ago

From Cloud-First to Cloud-Smart: How Enterprises are Evolving In the early 2010s, "cloud-first" was the mantra for organizations adopting cloud technologies to enhance flexibility, reduce costs, and drive digital transformation. This approach urged ...

From Cloud-First to Cloud-Smart: How Enterprises are Evolving
www.ekascloud.com/our-blog/fro...
#CloudSmart
#CloudFirstToCloudSmart
#EnterpriseCloudStrategy
#CloudEvolution
#DigitalTransformation
#CloudOptimization
#HybridCloud
#MultiCloud
#CloudStrategy
#CloudGovernance
#FinOps
#Cloud

CySecurity News

@cysecuritynews.bsky.social

3 months ago

Balancing Rapid Innovation and Risk in the New Era of SaaS Security   The accelerating pace of technological innovation is leaving a growing number of organizations unwittingly exposing their organization to serious security risks as they expand their reliance on SaaS platforms and experiment with emerging agent-based AI algorithms in an effort to thrive in the age of digital disruption. Businesses are increasingly embracing cloud-based services to deliver enterprise software to their employees at breakneck speed.  With this shift toward cloud-delivered services, it has become necessary for them to adopt new features at breakneck speed-often without pausing to implement, or even evaluate, the basic safeguards necessary to protect sensitive corporate information. There has been an unchecked acceleration of the pace of adoption of SaaS, creating a widening security gap that has renewed the urgent need for action from the Information Security community to those who are responsible for managing SaaS ecosystems.  Despite the fact that frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) have served as a guide for InfoSec professionals for many years, many SaaS teams are only now beginning to use its rigorously defined functions—Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover—particularly considering that NIST 2.0 emphasizes identity as the cornerstone of cyber defenses in a manner unparalleled to previous versions.  Silverfort's identity-security approach is one of many new approaches emerging to help organizations meet these ever-evolving standards against this backdrop, allowing them to extend MFA to vulnerable systems, monitor lateral movements in real-time, and enforce adaptive controls more accurately. All of these developments are indicative of a critical moment for enterprises in which they need to balance relentless innovation with uncompromising security in a SaaS-driven, AI-driven world that is increasingly moving towards a SaaS-first model.  The enterprise SaaS architecture is evolving into expansive, distributed ecosystems built on a multitenant infrastructure, microservices, and an ever-expanding web of open APIs, keeping up with the sheer scale and fluidity of modern operations is becoming increasingly difficult for traditional security models.  The increasing complexity within an organization has led to enterprises focusing more on intelligent and autonomous security measures, making use of behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and artificial intelligence-driven monitoring to identify threats much in advance of them becoming active.  As opposed to conventional signature-based tools, advanced systems can detect subtle deviations from user behavior in real-time, neutralize risks that would otherwise remain undetected, and map user behavior in a way that will never be seen in the future. Innovators in the SaaS security space, such as HashRoot, are leading the way by integrating AI into the core of SaaS security workflows.  A combination of predictive analytics and intelligent misconfiguration detection in HashRoot's AI Transformation Services can be used to improve aging infrastructures, enhance security postures, and construct proactive defense mechanisms that can keep up with the evolving threat landscape of 2025 and the unpredictable threats ahead of us.  During the past two years, there has been a rapid growth in the adoption of artificial intelligence within enterprise software, which has drastically transformed the SaaS landscape at a rapid pace. According to new research, 99.7 percent of businesses rely on applications with AI capabilities built into them, which demonstrates how the technology is proven to boost efficiency and speed up decision-making for businesses.  There is a growing awareness that the use of AI-enhanced SaaS tools is becoming increasingly common in the workplace, and that these systems have become increasingly integrated in every aspect of the work process. However, as organizations begin to grapple with the sweeping integration of AI into their businesses, a whole new set of risks emerge.  As one of the most pressing concerns arises, a loss of control of sensitive information and intellectual property is a significant concern, raising complex concerns about confidentiality and governance, as well as long-term competitive exposure, as AI models often consume sensitive data and intellectual property.  Meanwhile, the threat landscape is shifting as malicious actors are deploying sophisticated impersonator applications to mimic legitimate SaaS platforms in an attempt to trick users into granting them access to confidential corporate data through impersonation applications. It is even more challenging because AI-related vulnerabilities are traditionally identified and responded to manually—an approach which requires significant resources as well as slowing down the speed at which fast-evolving threats can be countered.  Due to the growing reliance on cloud-based AI-driven software as a service, there has never been a greater need for automated, intelligent security mechanisms. It is also becoming increasingly apparent to CISOs and IT teams that disciplined SaaS configuration management is a critical priority. This is in line with CSF's Protect function under Platform Security, which has a strong alignment with the CSF's Protect function. In the recent past, organizations were forced to realize that they cannot rely solely on cloud vendors for secure operation.  A significant share of cloud-related incidents can be traced back to preventable misconfigurations. Modern risk governance has become increasingly reliant on establishing clear configuration baselines and ensuring visibility across multiple platforms. While centralized tools can simplify oversight, there are no single solutions that can cover the full spectrum of configuration challenges. As a result of the recent development of multi-SaaS management systems, native platform controls and the judgment of skilled security professionals working within the defense-in-depth model, effective protection has become increasingly important.  It is important to recognize that SaaS security is never static, so continuous monitoring is indispensable to protect against persistent threats such as authorized changes, accidental modifications, and gradual drifts from baseline security. It is becoming increasingly apparent that Agentic AI is playing a transformative role here.  By detecting configuration drift at scale, correcting excessive permissions, and maintaining secure settings at a pace that humans alone can never match, it has begun to play a transformative role. In spite of this, configuration and identity controls are not all that it takes to secure an organization. Many organizations continue to rely on what is referred to as an “M&M security model” – a hardened outer shell with a soft, vulnerable center. Once a valid user credential or API key is compromised, an attacker may be able to pass through perimeter defenses and access sensitive data without getting into the system. A strong SaaS data governance model based on the principles of identifying, protecting, and recovering critical information, including SaaS data governance, is essential to overcoming these challenges. This effort relies on accurate classification of data, which ensures that high-value assets are protected from unauthorised access, field level encryption, and adequate protection when they are copied into environments that are of lower security.  There is now a critical role that automated data masking plays in preventing production data from being leaked into these environments, where security controls are often weak and third parties often have access to the data. In order to ensure compliance with evolving privacy regulations when personal information is used in testing, the same level of oversight is required as it is with production data. This evaluation must also be repeated periodically as policies and administrative practices change in the future.  Within SaaS ecosystems, it is equally important to ensure that data is maintained in a manner that is both accurate and available. Although the NIST CSF emphasizes the need to implement a backup strategy that preserves data, allows precise recovery, and maintains uninterrupted operation, the service provider is responsible for maintaining the reliability of the underlying infrastructure.  Modern SaaS environments require the ability to recover only the affected data without causing a lot of disruption, as opposed to traditional enterprise IT, which often relies on broad rollbacks to previous system states. It is crucial to maintain continuity in an enterprise-like environment by using granular resilience, especially because in order for agentic AI systems to function effectively and securely, they must have accurate, up-to-date information.  Together, these measures demonstrate that safeguarding SaaS environments has evolved into a challenging multidimensional task - one that requires continuous coordination between technology teams, information security leaders, and risk committees in order to ensure that innovation can take place in a secure and scalable manner.  Organizations are increasingly relying on cloud applications to conduct business, which means that SaaS risk management is becoming a significant challenge for security vendors hoping to meet the demands of enterprises. Businesses nowadays need more than simple discovery tools that identify which applications are being used to determine which application is being used.  There is a growing expectation that platforms will be able to classify SaaS tools accurately, assess their security postures, and take into consideration the rapidly growing presence of artificial intelligence assistants, large language model-based applications, which are now able to operate independently across corporate environments, as well as the growing presence of AI assistants. A shift in SaaS intelligence has led to the need for enriched SaaS intelligence, an advanced level of insight that allows vendors to provide services that go beyond basic visibility.  The ability to incorporate detailed application classification, function-level profiling, dynamic risk scoring, and the detection of shadow SaaS and unmanaged AI-driven services can provide security providers with a more comprehensive, relevant and accurate platform that will enable a more accurate assessment of an organization's risks.  Vendors that are able to integrate enriched SaaS application insights into their architectures will be at an advantage in the future. Vendors that are able to do this will be able to gain a competitive edge as they begin to address the next generation of SaaS and AI-related risks. Businesses can close persistent blind spots by using enriched SaaS application insights into their architectures.  In an increasingly artificial intelligence-enabled world, which will essentially become a machine learning-enabled future, it will be the ability of platforms to anticipate emerging vulnerabilities, rather than just responding to them, that will determine which platforms will remain trusted partners in safeguarding enterprise ecosystems in the future.  A company's path forward will ultimately be shaped by its ability to embrace security as a strategic enabler rather than a roadblock to innovation. Using continuous monitoring, identity-centric controls, SaaS-enhanced intelligence, and AI-driven automation as a part of its operational fabric, enterprises are able to modernize at a speed without compromising trust or resilience in their organizations.  It is imperative that companies that invest now, strengthening governance, enforcing data discipline, and demanding greater transparency from vendors, will have the greatest opportunity to take full advantage of SaaS and agentic AI, while also navigating the risks associated with an increasingly volatile digital future.

Balancing Rapid Innovation and Risk in the New Era of SaaS Security #agenticAI #AIRiskManagement #CloudGovernance

WesterCloud

@westercloud.bsky.social

3 months ago

IT skills now expire faster than ever. With tech cycles shrinking, skill instability is a real risk. Upskilling must be part of the operating model. At WesterCloud we help teams adapt, control cloud costs and build durable skills. #CloudGovernance #Upskilling #AI #CloudCostManagement #AzureTraining

Elizabeth Fuentes L

@elizabethfue12.bsky.social

3 months ago

AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience | Amazon Web Services AWS Control Tower now offers Control Only Experience, enabling faster governance setup for established multi-account environments by providing access to AWS managed controls without requiring a full landing...

📰🚨 AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience

#AWSControlTower #CloudGovernance #ManagedControls #MultiAccountSetup #AWSUpdates

Hacker News Companion

@hncompanion.com

3 months ago

Who's responsible? Some argue cloud providers need hard caps & clearer warnings. Others emphasize user education & vigilant monitoring. It's a balance between platform safety nets & individual accountability in the cloud. #CloudGovernance 5/6

Calipia

@calipia.bsky.social

3 months ago

Google Drive tend la main aux exilés de Dropbox (mais pas trop vite) Plus d’un an après avoir intégré une fonction de migration depuis OneDrive, Google revient à la charge en annonçant la prise en charge de Dropbox dans sa Data Migration Service (DMS). Derrière cet ajout en apparence anodin, se cache une manœuvre plus stratégique qu’il n’y paraît, destinée à consolider l’écosystème Google Workspace dans les entreprises. Alors que la souveraineté des données et les exigences de conformité n’ont jamais été aussi critiques, cette annonce mérite une analyse technique (et politique) approfondie.

Google muscle son service de migration pour faciliter le passage de Dropbox vers Google Drive. Une avancée utile… mais à manier avec rigueur.
#GoogleWorkspace #Dropbox #Migration #DSI #CloudGovernance #ITArchitecture

Ioannis Polyzos

@ipolyzos.com

4 months ago

How Indeed scaled Governance across 1,000+ AWS accounts with AWS Trusted Advisor | Amazon Web Services Indeed is the #1 job site¹ in the world. With 615 million Job Seeker Profiles², people in more than 60 countries across 28 languages come to Indeed to search for jobs, post resumes, and research compa...

Indeed used AWS Trusted Advisor to automate governance across 1,000+ AWS accounts, integrating APIs for cost checks, guardrails & Well-Architected alignment — at enterprise scale.

Read → aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/how...

#AWS #CloudGovernance #Automation #FinOps

Calipia

@calipia.bsky.social

4 months ago

Azure : les Capacity Reservation Groups deviennent deviennent “mutualisables” ! Jusqu’à présent, le partage de la capacité réservée sur Azure avait un goût de confinement : impossible de dépasser les frontières d’un abonnement. Les Capacity Reservation Groups (CRG), ces espaces dédiés à la réservation de puissance de calcul pour les machines virtuelles, étaient prisonniers de leur subscription d’origine. Microsoft vient enfin de lever cette contrainte avec la disponibilité publique de la fonctionnalité de 

Azure ouvre enfin le partage de capacité réservée entre abonnements : plus de flexibilité, moins de cloisonnement pour vos déploiements cloud.
#Azure #CloudGovernance #DSI #Microsoft #VirtualMachines #CapacityReservation

Jurgen

@jurgenallewijn.nl

4 months ago

Azure Kubernetes Chronicles 11: Governing the Chaos Unifying identity, policy, networking, and observability across clouds and edge

Episode 11 of Azure Kubernetes Chronicles is live:
👉 Governing the Chaos

How to unify identity, policy, networking, and observability across clouds and edge.

Read here: jurgenallewijn.nl/azure-kubern...

#Kubernetes #Azure #Arc #Anthos #CloudGovernance #MultiCloud

Bram de Jager

@bramdejager.bsky.social

5 months ago

Bram de Jager - Advice Matters | LinkedIn Experience: Advice Matters · Education: University of Amsterdam · Location: Oisterwijk · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Bram de Jager’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion...

🔐 Thought the "never expire password" checkbox in M365 Admin Center covered all domains? Think again. I found 1 out of 4 domains still enforcing expiration—despite the checkbox being enabled. Validation and auditing are essential.
👉 buff.ly/CX3zACm #Microsoft365 #Security #CloudGovernance

Manuel Bissey

@mbissey.bsky.social

5 months ago

How to Prepare for a Cloud Security Audit in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Networks Here is the easiest explanation! Cloud security audit are formal evaluations of an organization’s cloud environments to verify that security controls meet industry standards and regulatory…

Cloud audits are getting tougher. In hybrid and multi-cloud worlds, visibility and consistency are your best defenses. Prepare, don’t improvise. ☁️📋 #CloudGovernance #AuditReadiness

Maik van der Gaag

@maikvandergaag.online

5 months ago

Release v0.38.3 · Azure/bicep Highlights onlyIfNotExists GA! (#17996) @onlyIfNotExists() resource onlyDeployIfNotExists 'Microsoft...' = { name: 'example' location: 'eastus' properties: { ... } } [Experimental] ...

🚀 New release of #Bicep!

Just a few hours ago, a new version of #Azure #Bicep was released.

One of the cool things about this version is the @onlyIfNotExists that is now GA 🎉

Go check it out: github.com/Azure/bicep/...

#Azure #Bicep #IaC #CloudGovernance

Dieter Gobeyn

@dietergobeyn.bsky.social

5 months ago

Track Down and Delete Unused Logic Apps in Azure - AzureTechInsider Find and clean up unused Azure Logic App (Consumption) workflows with PowerShell. Reduce hidden costs from inactive triggers and improve cloud hygiene

🔍 Just published: a guide to finding and deleting unused Logic Apps in Azure to cut hidden costs and tidy up your environment.

azuretechinsider.com/track-down-and-delete-unused-logic-apps-in-azure/

#Azure #LogicApps #FinOps #CloudOptimization #AzureIntegration #CostManagement #CloudGovernance

@bradleyschagrin.bsky.social

5 months ago

The OSI Model Never Planned for Us The Eighth Layer Nobody Drew

The OSI Model Never Planned for Us. AI Just Added an Eighth Layer to the Internet
open.substack.com/pub/bradleys...
#CyberSecurity #AI #IdentitySecurity #CloudGovernance #ContinuousMonitoring #ThreatManagement #ZeroTrust #RiskManagement #DigitalResilience