Author Archives: Lucian Systems

New – Cloud NGFW for AWS

In 2018 I wrote about AWS Firewall Manager (Central Management for Your Web Application Portfolio) and showed you how you could host multiple applications, perhaps spanning multiple AWS accounts and regions, while maintaining centralized control over your organization’s security settings and profile. In the same way that Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) supports multiple database […]

4 Tips for Developing a Long-Term Plan for Managing Data Sprawl

Over the last two years, our world experienced a dramatic acceleration of digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic upended normal operations for many businesses and shifted the pace of technology adoption into warp speed. Migrating to the cloud became essential for business continuity and was no longer a future plan. As a result, many businesses implemented […]

AWS Lambda Now Supports Up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage

Serverless applications are event-driven, using ephemeral compute functions ranging from web APIs, mobile backends, and streaming analytics to data processing stages in machine learning (ML) and high-performance applications. While AWS Lambda includes a 512 MB temporary file system (/tmp) for your code, this is an ephemeral scratch resource not intended for durable storage such as […]

Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes: Which One is Better?

Cloud platforms and technologies allow developers and software engineers to build and deploy systems, applications, and services that can be accessed from anywhere across the globe and ones that can scale easily to handle more or less traffic cost-effectively without the owners having to incur heavy costs on additional infrastructure. Yet still, developers have to […]

Leading Cloud Vulnerability Scanners

Cyber security vulnerabilities are a constant nuisance and it certainly doesn’t help with the world in a current state of disarray and uncertainty. Vulnerabilities leave businesses and individuals subject to a wide range of threats including: Malware, Ransomware and DDoS. Some of the most common vulnerabilities include: Cross Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Security Misconfiguration, […]

20 most popular metrics with enterprise software startup CEOs

Enterprise software startups are capitalizing on real-time data to continually improve revenue, costs, cash flow, marketing, and sales as their business grows. The majority of software startup CEOs spoken with have designed their businesses to provide real-time data that’s immediately actionable. In addition, they’ve taken the time to design their business structure and systems to […]