by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 6, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Security, Strategy, Systems
Hey – I’m back! I’ve been heads-down learning what Cloud teams need to deliver to AWS securely and make IAM usable, and building that into a business delivered via SaaS & infrastructure code libraries: k9 Security. I’d like to share my... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 30, 2020 | DevOps, Systems
Helpful Engineering is designing, sourcing and executing projects to help people suffering from the COVID-19 crisis worldwide.https://www.helpfulengineering.org/ Vox described the mission, social dynamics, and challenges of self-organizing +10k people that just met:... by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 17, 2020 | DevOps, Strategy, Systems
I hope that you and your family are safe and healthy. COVID-19 is forcing many organizations to change long-standing policies and processes very quickly under great uncertainty. I’d like to help you navigate through those changes, especially if you support... by Stephen Kuenzli | Feb 10, 2020 | AWS, DevOps, Risk, Security, Systems
Information Security risks are those risks “that arise from the loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or information systems and reflect the potential adverse impacts to organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals,... by Stephen Kuenzli | Feb 5, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Risk, Security, Systems
Cloud deployments often use tagging to describe the context of a compute or resource such as a who owns or what application a virtual machine or object storage bucket belongs to. However, the common resource tagging models in use don’t describe the context... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jan 31, 2020 | Cloud, Risk, Security, Systems
Reading Time: 6 minutes The current crop of Best Practice tagging schemes and recommendations don’t describe the context required for people or tools to assess security or manage risk easily. But I never explained why risk management is important nor how to... 