By Scott Morrison  The CSA domain structure–even without the benefits of the guidance–at least serves as a concrete reminder of what’s behind the slogan.
Have a close look at the guidance. Read it; think about it; disagree with it; change it–but in the end, make it your own. Then share your experienc... Dec. 25, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 6,013 |
By Scott Morrison  I recently had a great, freewheeling discussion with Daniel Raskin, Sun&'s Chief Identity Strategist. Daniel runs the Identity Buzz podcasts. We talked about issues in identity and entitlement enforcement in SOA, compliance, and the problems you run into as you move into new environmen... Dec. 15, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 6,053 |
By Scott Morrison  Somebody brought Anil’s tweet to our attention this week, and Jay Thorne, who leads our tactical group, put together a nice example of just how to do this using SecureSpan Gateways. URI templates are a simple idea to formalize variable expansion inside URI prototypes. A receiving syste... Dec. 12, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 6,974 |
By Scott Morrison Here at Layer 7, we’ve been really excited about Amazon’s Relational Data Service (RDS) ever since they announced it last month. RDS is basically a managed mySQL v5.1 instance running in the Amazon infrastructure. The point of RDS to provide another basic service that we al... Nov. 26, 2009 07:06 PM EST Reads: 1,298 |
By Scott Morrison Last week, Anne Thomas Manes, Research Director from Burton and I did a Webinar entitled New Security Model Requirements for the Cloud. It’s probably generated the most feedback of any webinar I’ve done. It’s now online, so have a look at it here.
Nov. 26, 2009 06:33 PM EST Reads: 879 |
By Scott Morrison Ben Kepes, from the excellent CloudAve blog, wrote an entry about Layer 7’s strategy in the cloud. We had a good talk about Layer 7’s new Amazon AMI image, which is available right now in the Amazon Marketplace. CloudAve has been on my blogroll for a while, and I was quite ... Nov. 3, 2009 12:14 PM EST Reads: 2,463 |
By Scott Morrison I had a great discussion with Mike Vizard of CTOEdge the other day about how to secure the cloud. I was joking with Mike afterward that I had tried to avoid delivering any overt vendor message because this is such an important topic. Nevertheless, some SecureSpan specific features had ... Nov. 2, 2009 06:18 PM EST Reads: 755 |
By Scott Morrison James Urquardt, from Cisco, published a review of the US Government’s recently announced cloud initiative. I had the pleasure of sharing a panel with James recently at GigaOm Structure, and his CNET column should be on your must-read list if clouds are of interest to you.
In this... Sep. 18, 2009 04:17 PM EDT Reads: 777 |
By Scott Morrison Ah, the reuse question. My thoughts are here.
Sep. 17, 2009 07:59 PM EDT Reads: 938 |
By Scott Morrison I had a discussion with Wayne Rash the other day about security in cloud computing. He followed up with an excellent article in eWeek with the provocative title Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It. I’d encourage you to have a look; Wayne spoke to a number of well-known people in ... Sep. 17, 2009 05:17 PM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
By Scott Morrison My answer is here.
Sep. 11, 2009 06:10 PM EDT Reads: 1,200 |
By Scott Morrison We were at this week’s RedHat Summit/JBoss World show in Chicago to announce that the SecureSpan line is now fully certified against the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. We’ve seen increasing use of JBoss in our engagements, so this endorsement is important for both Layer 7 a... Sep. 4, 2009 06:53 PM EDT Reads: 1,977 |
K. Scott Morrison is the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he is leading a team developing the next generation of security infrastructure for cloud computing and SOA. An architect and developer of highly scalable, enterprise systems for over 20 years, Scott has extensive experience across industry sectors as diverse as health, travel and transportation, and financial services. He has been a Director of Architecture and Technology at Infowave Software, a leading maker of wireless security and acceleration software for mobile devices, and was a senior architect at IBM. Before shifting to the private sector, Scott was with the world-renowned medical research program of the University of British Columbia, studying neurodegenerative disorders using medical imaging technology.
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