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Secure Cloud Hosting: Real requirements to protect your open source data
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Presentation speakers
- Chris Hinkley, Senior Security Engineer, FireHost
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Go ahead. Do a Google Trend analysis of the phrases “cloud hosting” and “cloud security.” You’ll find that it was only five short months after Amazon introduced the idea of the cloud in 2008 that businesses realized that it wasn’t secure and started searching for answers. Since then, the promise of the cloud has continued to grow, as has the need to secure the data stored in it, particularly for open source environments. Just because data is kept in the cloud doesn’t mean it’s stored in an idealized floating bubble. Data is still on a server in a server room somewhere, meaning that breaches, hackers and all sorts of trouble can still access it.
In addition, other challenges plague the idea of cloud hosting. Network availability is a must for high traffic sites, but many bump into issues that halt their performance thanks to network bottlenecks and complexity in the security framework. Also, businesses that used to accept flat charges for hosting now want to see what’s in the black box. Transparency has become incredibly important to businesses that know their usage fluctuates and want to pay for only what they use on a daily or monthly basis. These same businesses understand that their site traffic varies depending on their marketing initiatives, causing them to demand scalability to match these programs. Why pay for more than you’re using? And shouldn’t your host be able to give you more when you need it?
Attendees of this session will:
- Learn why secure hosting is more important than ever for open source, as supported by customer case studies
- Hear actual case histories of how performance issues have crippled businesses, as well as what types of businesses are gearing up to really test hosting providers on the performance front
- Understand what transparency truly looks like and what kinds of things to look for under the hood when seeking a hosting provider
- Get a sneak peek into the future of the hosting world, including topics such as follow-the-sun and globalized hosting credentials
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