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The Importance of Zero Trust Security

Security is more important now than ever as the number of targeted security attacks and data breaches continue to rise. Adopting a Zero Trust Security model boosts your network's security and protects data, files, and user information. Concurrency's CTO Nathan Lasnoski, Managing Architect Chris Blackburn and Technical Architect Laura Spence break down Zero Trust's approach to security including why Modern Desktop and Micro-segmentation play a critical role.

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5 Disciplines of Cloud Governance

The best organizations are ones that balance growth mindset in the cloud with effective cloud governance. The growth mindset is the company challenging itself, its previous assumptions, it’s understanding of what the future looks like. The partner is governance that accelerates the transformation while ensuring protection and responsibility. The goal of cloud governance is not […]

Nathan Lasnoski by Nathan Lasnoski

Zero Trust @ Microsoft Inspire

I had the opportunity to speak along with Nupur Goyal at Microsoft Inspire on Zero Trust strategies. We talked about why Zero Trust is important, practical architectures, top things you need to do to improve security, and practice building. Check it out below! https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/videos/zero-trust-for-the-boundary-less-world

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Mitigating Security Threats with Zero Trust

Targeted security attacks are on the rise and Microsoft reports 52% of organizations saw a change in security challenges due to the pandemic. Concurrency CTO Nathan Lasnoski presents at the 2020 Microsoft Inspire Global Partner Conference on how a zero trust security in action. 

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Securing and Governing the Power Platform

The Power Platform is compelling with its low-code/no-code capabiltiies, but how do you secure and govern it across your enterprise? Making decisions on structure and governance will set your employees up for success. 

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COVID Survival Kit: Remote Workforce Security

I recorded a webinar with Alan Mitchell, CISO of Brunswick Corporation. We talked about their security response to COVID and how modern technologies have positively impacted their environment.

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COVID Survival Kit: Remote Workforce Productivity

I recorded an interview on COVID response with Brandon Lemery from Rockwell Automation on Remote Workforfce Productivity. Brandon did an excellent job sharing how Rockwell has leveraged modern technologies and shifted their culture around the remote workforce ecosystem.

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10 Security Changes Every CIO Should Implement

Every quarter we receive a call from a company that has been taken advantage of by a serious security event, typically ransomware or phishing, but also sometimes events more complicated. In many cases enterprise organizations have 95% of their datacenter and end user computing environments compromised. Not surprisingly, in examining these events I’ve consistently noticed […]

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What is a Bastion Host?

Security is one of the many cornerstones of IT and a focus of what we do at Concurrency. When building in Azure, it is important to be able to connect to your resources securely. Bastion hosts are the common way to provide administrative access to private areas of your cloud network.

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Top 10 Ways to Secure your Azure Environment – Part 1 of 2

Recently I finished off a 10-part series on the top mistakes to avoid when getting started in Azure. I’d like to complement that content with a follow-up pair of posts focused specifically on security. My objective here is to provide a quick-reference checklist you can use to maximize security benefits from the beginning.

Nathan Lasnoski by Nathan Lasnoski