An Online Event Management Company partners with Cloudaliv to improve its cloud operations and security posture.
Summary
As an online event management company, we are always looking for ways to improve our security posture and make sure our customer data is safe. Recently, we partnered with Cloudaliv to implement AWS best practices for security in our environment. This case study will highlight the steps we took to improve our security and how partnering with Cloudaliv has helped us better protect our customers’ data.
About the Client
Online Event Management Company is a content management, webcasting, and production platform that helps companies to streamline the process of managing their online events and make them more effective.
The Challenge
Online Event Management Company knew that securing any system was crucial. They wanted to make sure their existing AWS environment was up to industry standards, identify any vulnerabilities they may have, and ensure they had a process in place to maintain continuous compliance.
The Solution
Cloudaliv evaluated Client’s cloud infrastructure and identified key gaps that needed to be addressed. Cloudaliv remedied these issues and implemented measures to mitigate future risks, implementing governance throughout the organization for improved security. In this case, the company was able to make its infrastructure even more secure by leveraging AWS best practices, such as automating and securing against breaches.
Cloudaliv then stepped in to continue the implementation of security controls and policies, including access control and identity management, as well as monitoring for malicious activity. The organization was also able to leverage Cloudaliv’s expertise with industry-leading technologies such as GuardDuty, WAF, and Config. These services enabled the Client to detect potential threats before they occur and take preventive action against them. Moreover, Cloudaliv worked with the company to build a secure DevOps pipeline that included continuous monitoring of its cloud environment, allowing it to quickly identify any vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. In addition, the team provided recommendations on hardening their applications by implementing strong authentication methods such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Single Sign On (SSO). All these measures allowed the Client to protect itself from data breaches while avoiding unnecessary complexity in their operations.
The Outcome
As a result of implementing the AWS security best practices, the online event management company has seen a significant reduction in the number of security incidents. There have been no reported data breaches or other major security incidents since implementing the new security measures. The company’s IT team is now able to focus on more strategic initiatives, rather than fire-fighting security issues. Overall, the company is very happy with the improved security posture and would recommend other organizations to consider similar measures.
An End-to-End Inventory Management Software Firm Partners with Cloudaliv to Containerize their Applications and Migrate to Amazon ECS.
Summary
An inventory management software company was in the process to streamline its processes of maintaining AWS infrastructure and allowing its dev environments to come up and tear as per the developer’s need. Also, they need the environment to be highly available, secure and clean continuously to have cost control.
About the client
An End-to-End inventory management software for business of all sizes helps manage inventory more smartly with item tracking with QR codes, effortlessly create reports to share, track user and inventory activities, effortlessly check-in/out items (move item) to employees, customers, jobs or locations in seconds using the in-app scanner. And give controlled access to anyone from anywhere.
The Challenge
The Inventory Management software firm needed to containerize its application and migrate to Amazon ECS from Elastic Beanstalk to avoid waiting for Beanstalk platform updates to update its application stack. Also, they want to manage their AWS environment in a streamlined way by avoiding manual environment changes and following DevOps best practices using Infrastructure as a code and CI/CD for application deployments. Moreover, they need the application to be Highly available and scalable and to be on top of managing AWS with industry best practices.
The Solution
Cloudaliv evaluated their AWS environment and automated the entire AWS environment with Terraform with documentation for developers to spin up the dev environments whenever they need and tear them down. Migrated their application to Amazon ECS Fargate in multiple AZ’s with AWS autoscaling to scale applications based on demand. Secure the client environment with High Availability, Threat detection, and protection, encryption at rest and in transit, Web application firewalls for their applications, Purchase reservations to get cost savings, and billing alarms to be cost-conscious.
Results
Cloudaliv solution helped in migrating their applications to Amazon ECS, achieving the AWS Infrastructure management agility using IAC with cost-benefit and operational excellence with streamlined processes. Our ongoing support helps maintain their AWS environment secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant. An End-to-End Inventory Management Software Firm Partners with Cloudaliv to Containerize their Applications and Migrate to Amazon ECS.
