Category: Security & Compliance

Security Vs Compliance
Security & Compliance

The Differences between Compliance vs. Security

Did you know that Security and Compliance are two very different things? Before explaining the main differences, it is important to be focused on basic concepts: Compliance: Mainly focused on alignment with regulations, standards and/or best practices. For example, let’s think about companies on the Stock Market that are required to be in compliance with…

CI/CD - Infrastructure as Code - Security & Compliance

Compliance and Infrastructure Delivery

As a nearshore team, we work with clients from outside the US which have some data access restrictions. One of our clients is a US based Software Development agency that hired us for IT operations. This company develops products for health insurance companies that add some clauses to the contracts which don’t allow the management…

Infrastructure as Code - Security & Compliance

Salt and the bash security issue

Yesterday was published a Bash security issue. Details here. So, we needed to upgrade your instance very quickly. Thanksfully, we have SaltStack managing it. The procedure was simple as described below. To update our systems with Salt, just run: salt ‘*’ pkg.install bash refresh=True And to be sure that new nodes are deployed with the…