Tag: IaC

Module Spotlight – OPA Policy Generator

Posted August 27, 2024

OPA adoption is becoming more frequent as the need for ensuring sound and secure IAC is moved to the forefront of many organizations, but writing OPA policies can be challenging and time consuming due to its unintuitive syntax. OPG takes the pain out of writing OPA policies for a more secure infrastructure. 

Solution Spotlight – Governance Gating Foundation

Posted August 1, 2024

Governance of deployment pipelines to meet the financial industry’s high standards can be a daunting task without a systemic approach like the one taken in this solution. Vertical Relevance’s Governance Gating solution will streamline the application, maintenance, and enforcement of an organization’s governance strategy. Resources could be spent raising those high compliance standards even higher with the development of new policies and gates rather than enforcement of old standards. 

Module Spotlight – Assessment Scoring Engine

Posted April 9, 2024

Vertical Relevance's Assessment Scoring Engine is a pivotal tool that aligns with the strategic objectives of enhancing operational resilience within organizations. By providing a structured and data-driven approach to assess and improve application and organizational health, it enables organizations to take targeted actions that directly contribute to the stability and reliability of services. By utilizing AWS services, the engine offers a scalable and secure solution to meet the dynamic needs of modern enterprises. 

Solution Spotlight – Incident Response Foundations

Posted September 28, 2023

Vertical Relevance's Incident Response Foundation lays the groundwork for an AWS Organization to take advantage of native AWS services for the detection and management of security incidents.  It supplements the available CloudFormation resources with a custom resource that can be enhanced for the enabling of additional Security Hub supported services at the organization level.

Solution Spotlight – Experiment Generator

Posted August 29, 2023

The Experiment Generator simplifies the resiliency testing process and accelerates its adoption, organization wide. Implementing the Experiment Generator brings an organization one step closer to its resiliency goals, both in relation to people and processes, in breaking down team barriers and automating as much as we can.

Module Spotlight – Experiment Broker

Posted November 2, 2022

Vertical Relevance's Experiment Broker provides the infrastructure to implement automated resiliency experiments via code to achieve standardized resiliency testing at scale. The Experiment broker is a resiliency module that orchestrate experiments with the use of state machines, the input is driven by a code pipeline that kicks off the state machine but also can be executed manually. Coupled with a deep review and design of targeted resiliency tests, it can help ensure your AWS cloud application will meet business requirements in all circumstances.

Using AWS Lambda’s New Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) to Enforce Compliance of Lambda Functions

Posted July 15, 2022

Today AWS Lambda is announcing the general availability of Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) for Lambda via new support for tag-related AWS IAM global condition keys. This means the advanced IAM condition keys used in this post, including aws:ResourceTag and aws:TagKeys, can be used with Lambda as of today. Vertical Relevance is proud to have partnered with AWS on this launch, and hopefully, this post will show the exciting possibilities of taking advantage of these new features.

Solution Spotlight – Performance Testing Foundations

Posted June 15, 2022

The Vertical Relevance Automated Performance Testing Framework lowers the barrier to entry in performance tests by providing a starting point upon which a mature solution can be built to meet the needs of your organization.  By following this guidance, you can gain confidence that your production systems are going to meet the current and future demands of your organization and customers

Control Broker Eval Engine 

Posted March 16, 2022

This is the latest example of how Vertical Relevance is a leader in the Policy as Code space. This post outlined how to operationalize PaC with a serverless Evaluation Engine as part of the broader Control Broker solution. Get in touch with us to learn more about the benefits of operationalizing the automated enforcement of security policies

Solution Spotlight – Network Foundations

Posted February 9, 2022

This AWS Network Foundation solution provides an opinionated, foundational set of network architectures, design considerations, automated solutions, and best practices that help our clients “quick start” their AWS journey with a strong foothold while ensuring the scalability and growth they are likely to require as their AWS footprint grows. Vertical Relevance highly recommends that the following foundational best practices be implemented to create a sustainable AWS Network that will support an enterprise-level organization.
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