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Remember when network design utilized the on-premises data center as the central hub? Well, those days are long gone. New technologies, increased cloud adoption, applications, remote and roaming workers and a myriad of other factors have made traditional WAN networks practically obsolete, as they can no longer keep up with online business and IT demands. […]

In my last blog, I explained why you need a firewall in the cloud. Now, let’s talk about the how. Typically, customers have two different deployment models of their cloud network infrastructure: the flat VNet/VPC and then the hub and spoke model (most network engineers will recognize this model, shout out to DMVPN). There is […]

Identity Governance – the “Why” and the “What” Is Identity Governance not the same as Identity (and Access) Management? Why not? Technically, what we consider as IAM stems from the need to support network-based access within a corporation, government agency or education facility. This includes tasks like provisioning an identity in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) […]

With the rise of cloud connectivity and the remote workforce, the perimeter of enterprise organizations has greatly expanded. We’ve moved on from an original perimeter of endpoints, on-site users, servers, applications and data centers to a new identity perimeter that includes vendors and contractors, personal and mobile devices, remote employees and cloud infrastructure and applications. […]

In light of the Okta frenzy on March 22, 2022, Okta announced that LAPSUS$ posted screenshots they were able to take from a security engineer’s computer. This security engineer worked for third party company Okta works (or worked) with, Sitel. The low down is that LAPSU$$ was able to access a computer used by this Sitel worker, […]

This blog series will cover architecture decisions that should be considered when migrating to the cloud. This series is written by a team of consultants that have worked with all walks of life in the cloud, from Fortune 50 enterprise to the “born in the cloud” startups, from FinTech to the retail industry. If there […]

Favorite iVision Client Engagement Value: I am empowered to go the extra mile for my coworkers, clients and community.  Courtney’s Career Journey:   After graduating from Troy University, I started my professional career in Sales for an IT staffing and rural sourcing company, Optomi Professional Services. I absolutely loved working with my clients to understand their […]

iVision is committed to tapping into our team members’ highest potential and passions, and this allows for an incredible range of perspectives around our team. The women at iVision have been integral in every step of our success, in the past, present and future. Today, we’d like to share some of their stories entering and navigating a […]

We have all experienced the dread that comes with hearing, “we will need to reimage your computer.” The thought of being down for several days and spending hours ensuring everything is where it is supposed to be is sometimes too much to handle. Thankfully, cloud-based solutions have taken a large part of the headache out […]

AWS, like most security-minded organizations, strongly recommends following the security practice of least privileged. In some cases, this can be a simple task. A handful of instances may only need to receive HTTPS traffic from an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), a Relational Database RDS cluster should only be accepting requests from the application servers, etc. […]

With the complexity, as well as the importance, of identity and access management (IAM) on the rise, it’s important that businesses employ the proper tools. In my previous blog, How is IAM Divided Today?, I break down the distinction between IGA, IAM and PAM. Today, I’ll be sharing just why ServiceNow is not suited for […]

I recently read a book about the writing of a book, specifically the Oxford English Dictionary. I am now acutely and somewhat annoyingly aware that every word has a rich history and is constantly evolving. Take the word “graduate” for example. This is a common word that most of us have used in conversation. Did […]