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June 29, 2015

People, Process and Technology: A Recipe for Security

Data security is a hot topic, as seemingly every week a report announces yet another hack of sensitive information. Whether it’s the enterprise, government or Joe Plumber, security must be front of mind. One company, providing protection to firms of all sizes is managed service security provider, Alert Logic.

At the recent Cloud Expo Alert Logic’s Chief Security Evangelist Stephen Coty sat down with TMC (News - Alert) and talked security. The managed service provider has expanded quite a bit in the recent calendar year supporting applications and workloads on all major public cloud platforms including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace (News - Alert), IBM and VMware, and Coty credits the success to three key differentiators: people, process and technology.

Alert Logic has found a niche in the managed services space via its people developing innovative technology capable of providing speedy resolution to a security red flag. Serving the corporate world, it manages Fortune 100s, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses, to the average cloud setup—with solutions that can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment.

Coty proclaimed, “Threat research and threat intelligence are the backbone of all this technology.” This first starts with finding new and emerging threats, and reverse engineering the threat. Coty keeps the focus on people, as he noted, “it takes a solid partnership to make it work efficiently.”

The growth in the last 12months, nearly 40 percent year-over-year, has translated into Alert Logic being one of the top providers of security products in the Amazon cloud as a result of further expansion into financial institutions and ecommerce sites on the horizon.

Alert Logic is an up-and-coming industry pioneer and in the upcoming months will be releasing its Cloud Security Report, which analyzes on on-premises versus cloud based system security and breakdown of industry attacks.

Also from Cloud Expo, Coty spoke with TMC’s Group Editorial Director Erik Linask (News - Alert).

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While Coty and the Alert Logic team are at the forefront of managed security, the security evangelist brings it back to three key ideas that help make security resolution as quick and painless as possible.

He stated, “It all comes down to a combination of technology, people and process that organizations need to have invested in their environments in order to have a quick response to cyberattacks.”

 
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