{"id":5000,"date":"2012-12-06T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/dec\/06\/when-is-a-stack-not-a-stack-when-its-unified-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T20:50:01","slug":"when-is-a-stack-not-a-stack-when-its-unified-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/when-is-a-stack-not-a-stack-when-its-unified-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a stack not a stack? When it\u2019s Unified in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trawling the blogs, feeds and news I came across an analyst&rsquo;s article about best security practices in which he kept referring to &ldquo;the stack.&rdquo; And by this he meant a multitude of various solutions that address certain security needs and capabilities; everything from email filtering, firewalling, authenticating, credentialing, logging and intrusion detection, etc&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>And, if you read my blogs often enough, you know I am a big proponent of unified security. However, unified security <strong><em>is not<\/em><\/strong> a stack. It is easy to be confused as both look to utilize best of breed tools to prevent negative impact on IP assets. A stack references a number of technologies where each operates <em>independently<\/em> from one another. Single sign on by itself is a sufficient tool, but when operating alone in its own silo, important contextual information is lost.<\/p>\n<p>The unified approach, as I describe in REACT, is a <strong>collaborative practice &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trawling the blogs, feeds and news I came across an analyst&rsquo;s article about best security practices in which he kept referring to &ldquo;the stack.&rdquo; And by this he meant a multitude of various solutions that address certain security n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}