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A High Level Overview of IT and Security Industry Standards

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A High Level Overview of IT and Security Industry Standards

This may sound like a boring article to many, but it is a basic overview of some very important information that is crucial to include in the repertoire of knowledge for all IT and security professionals.

In this article, we will be going over the high points for the following industry standards: PCI DSS, ISO 27001/27002, HIPAA, and the NIST/DoD frameworks, and adding some comments along the way on the relationships and effects that these policies and frameworks have on network architecture, as well as what possible implications they could have on architectural solutions. Most of the architectural solutions provided come from an Amazon Web Services perspective, but the same basic principles apply, regardless of which cloud service provider (CSP) you use, or even if your infrastructure is hosted on-premises.

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HTTP/2 – The Missing Summary

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HTTP/2 – The Missing Summary

We know our browsers support it, and we know AWS, Akamai, and other big players support it within their infrastructure already…but do your applications and/or on-prem infrastructure have what it takes to leverage the awesomeness that is HTTP/2?

Think about it. We went from HTTP/0.9, to HTTP/1.0, to HTTP/1.1…to a full version upgrade of HTTP/2. That alone should tell you that there are some very interesting features lurking underneath the hood. This is the missing in-depth summary that you have been missing while being overloaded with too much information reading official specs and getting lost in sensory-overload-causing diagrams. Welcome to HTTP/2 – the missing summary.

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Highly-Available, Scalable WordPress using ECS/Docker & RDS/MariaDB

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Highly-Available, Scalable WordPress using ECS/Docker & RDS/MariaDB

The recent Amazon S3 outage showed us just how delicate the state of the web is, especially when you don’t utilize Amazon’s built-in redundancy features. My goal was to create a highly-available and scalable WordPress installation in AWS using Docker. I would have auto-scale Docker clusters in multiple Availability Zones running Nginx, PHP-FPM, and a Redis client. The Docker config and WordPress install would be on EFS volumes that would be
mounted in the Docker containers. I would use an RDS MariaDB for the database backend and Redis-based ElastiCache for serving up the site blazing fast from memory.

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