Archive for category cloud security and compliance
2021 Technical Goals
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, personal on January 1, 2021
Of course I have my mental and physical health goals that I want to focus on in 2021 but I have been recently contemplating my technical goals for 2021. These are goals that are based on helping me excel in my technical knowledge and grow in my career. I have not had the traditional path […]
VMworld 2014 Call for Papers – Vote for #1310
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, compliance, Juniper, virtualization, VMware, VMworld on May 7, 2014
Yes… Yes… I admit that this is a shameless plug and if you know me, you know that doing anything like this is like pulling teeth for me. I really don’t like it but I understand that it needs to be done and I need to take any opportunity I can get. The VMworld 2014 […]
VMware Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, compliance, policies, security, virtualization, virtualization, VMware on January 22, 2014
VMware recently released the Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide. This whitepaper was written to assist with the additional components that an administrator may choose to implement on the hardened virtual appliances. You see VMware created a hardened virtual appliance “by embedding the technical requirements of the STIG in the design”. What the heck am I […]
November’s Important VMware Security Links
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, compliance, security, virtualization, virtualization, VMware on November 11, 2013
Needless to say, my life has been crazy since joining VMware. My ability to update this site has been falling behind as I work on some amazing projects. I even took over the VMware Public Sector Blog.What I noticed today when I updated the Public Sector site because of a tweet I sent out, was […]
PCI DSS and VMware
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, compliance, PCI DSS, security, virtualization on September 30, 2013
As much as I try to keep Security and Compliance separate because as you know, security and compliance are two totally different things, there are exceptions. You also know, compliance can sometimes help with regard to security. The number one standard where this is true is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards or also known […]
Security vs. Compliance
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security and compliance, compliance, policies on July 29, 2013
As a security evangelist, I talk security… but let me be clearer, I don’t talk compliance. Ok, so maybe I talk about compliance as well but one thing that I always stress is that security and compliance are not the same thing. Not even close. Compliance is a check box mentality. Well, to be specific… […]
Why did they hack that site?… LivingSocial
Posted by Erin K. Banks in big data, cloud security, cloud security and compliance, security on May 7, 2013
According to LivingSocial, they were hacked a couple of weeks ago. Let me repeat that a site that sells deals to consumers… all kinds of deals from different merchants to different types of customers was hacked. You can shop for clothes, vacations, hair cuts, activities, just about anything. And they were hacked! I sent out […]
VMworld 2013 – Voting and HoL
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, security, virtualization, virtualization, VMware, VMworld on April 28, 2013
This will be my first year at VMworld as a VMworld employee. I am excited about the experience and wondering if it will feel any different. Technically I will be at VMworld because of the Hands on Labs. I through my hat into the ring because that’s just what I do. Right now it looks […]
NIST Interagency Report 7904 – Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, RSA, security, virtualization, VMware on February 5, 2013
I can’t tell you how excited I am that my name is on this NIST document. I was working with my wonderful friend Tarik without knowing that this is what it would turn in to. Now let’s talk about it… The abstract for the document : This publication explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a […]
Security vSpecialist June 2012 Newsletter
Posted by Erin K. Banks in cloud security, cloud security and compliance, newsletter, security, virtualization, virtualization, VMware on June 27, 2012
Within the larger EMC vSpecialist team we have individual focus groups. The focus group that I am a part of is the security focus group. Shocking I know. Each month we try to get out a newsletter that gets sent to all vSpecialists. This newsletter identifies key events that have happened in the news, important […]