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OMG Cloud Standards Summit
July 13-15, 2009, in Arlington, VA, the Object Management Group, is holding a Standards in Government & NGO’s Workshop. During the first day, the Cloud Computing Standards Summit will focus…
NDU IRM Cloud Computing Event “Sold Out”!!!
Hope you’ve already registered for the “The Cloud Computing Symposium” , Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at the National Defense University in Washington, DC! This promises to be the premier government…
SSA’s Jim Borland on Healthcare Information Technology
Today, on this week’s Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum webcast, Mr. Jim Borland, Special Advisor for Health IT, Office of the Commissioner, Social Security Administration(SSA), will discuss the value…
Dr. Leslie Lenert of CDC Speaks on Healthcare IT
During this week’s Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum pre-recording, Dr. Leslie Lenert, Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),…
Linda Fischetti on VHA Healthcare
This week pre-recording of Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum featured Linda Fischetti , Health Informatics Architect at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). During a panel discussion, her comments on…
Vish Sankaran, HHS, Speaks on Healthcare IT
During the pre-recording of this weeks Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum, Vish Sankaran, Program Director of Federal Health Architecture, discussed the role of information technology in improving the country’s…
Iranian Protests Showcase Twitter, Facebook, YouTube (and Cloud Computing) !
In covering unfolding events in Iran, the world’s most powerful news outlets have been entirely dependent on the Twitter-provided flow of text, images, and video. While this has definitely showcased…
Two Days with AWS Federal
Today, I start two days of training with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Federal. If that’s the first time you’ve ever heard about an AWS Federal division, your not alone. Held…
Maneuver Warfare in IT: A Cheerleading Pundit
The Twitter conversation between Christofer Hoff and I went like this: Christofer – I haven’t formally blogged a resp. (yet) to @Kevin_Jackson on his ‘maneuver warfare in IT’ Not just a cultural shift but a…
Expanding Maneuver Warfare in IT
Earlier this week I published “Cloud Computing: The Dawn of Maneuver Warfare in IT Security” via Ulitzer. In publishing the article my intent was to explore the more dynamic approach…
Hybrid IT enables a composable infrastructure which describes a framework whose physical compute, storage, and network fabric resources are treated as services.
Resources are logically pooled so that administrators need to physically configure hardware to support a specific software application, which describes the function of a composable architecture.
This type of transformative infrastructure is foundational to contemporary agile business because a hybrid IT environment, private clouds, public clouds, community clouds, traditional data centers, and services from service providers must be integrated and interconnected.
Composable infrastructures can build new revenue-generating products and services faster while simultaneously addressing the key inhibitors to change, which include the following:
- General concerns regarding lack of adequate hybrid infrastructure security
- The false impression that cloud cannot support the operational/performance requirements of critical applications (e.g., SAP and Oracle)
- Management challenge presented by multi-cloud environments contracts that will include varying levels of governance and service-level agreements (SLAs)
- The need to match employee management skills across various cloud platforms
Composable infrastructure architectures have two major functions. They must be able to disaggregate
and aggregate resources into pools and compose consumable resources through a unified API.
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks will significantly enhance the current mobile network environment. These new networks will use multi-access edge computing (MEC) to extend composable enterprise infrastructures to the network edge, a capability broadly referred to as edge computing.
To support this future IT-operating environment, enterprise content and application developers need to collaborate with telecommunications network operators to gain access to edge services.
Using this architecture, “Internet of Things†(IoT) applications can respond in real time to local events and use cloud capabilities for all other data processing functions.
Edge computing application design development model has three locations:
- Client
- Near server
- Far server
An end-to-end IT service designed to operate in an IoT environment follows this model also but with different reference names or components:
- Terminal device component
- Edge component(s)
- Remote component(s)
The IoT architecture emphasizes the distribution of components. In this environment, network services (i.e., routers, firewalls, load balancers, XML processing, and WAN optimization devices) are replaced with software running on virtual machines.
To ensure secure operations, key cybersecurity tasks include the following:
- Securing the controller as the centralized decision point for access to the Software Defined Network (SDN)
- Protecting the controller against malware or attack
- Establish trust by protecting the communications throughout the network by ensuring the SDN controller, related applications, and managed devices are all trusted entities
- Creation of a robust policy framework that establishes a system of checks and balances across all SDN controllers
- Conducting forensics and remediation when an incident happens in order to determine the cause and prevent reoccurrence
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) establishes a virtualized networking environment dedicated to providing different network services. If NFV is used, the SDN can also act as a hypervisor for NFV virtual machines.
Approaches for implementing cybersecurity protections include the following:
- Embed security within the virtualized network devices
- Embed security into the SDN servers, storage, and other computing devices
The Zero Trust security model is centered on the belief that organizations should not trust anything inside or outside their perimeters. This model requires verification of anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before access is granted. The Zero Trust approach uses existing technologies and governance processes in securing the enterprise IT environment.
When designing and deploying transformational solutions across enterprise, cloud, 5G networks, MEC environment, and the Zero Trust paradigm must be extended to include all associated SDNs.
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