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Beaty Consultancy at the AWS Summit 2020
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How Secure Is Secure-Enough?
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Information In The Information Age
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How Hacking Works
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The Right Cloud Tools For The Job
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What Is Change Management
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What Is Infrastructure as Code
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What Is Phishing And How To Protect From It
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Operational Security From Home
Cloud BasicsSecurityOperational Security From HomePosted on 29/04/2020There are some scary sounding buzzy buzzwords going on here aren’t there? Well this…
Let’s Learn Stuff While We’re Locked In
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Zoom-bombing and the Park Bench
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Don’t Give Your Cloud Servers Names
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Save Money By Using AWS Reserved Instances
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Managing Your Cloud Resources In Times Of Crisis
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Remote Working Tools
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
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Security Isn’t Sexy
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Understanding Disaster Recovery
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How The Cloud Works
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Open Source Software
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Technical Writing Services
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Securing Access to your Cloud Resources
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Cloud Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
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Microservices – The Production Line of Cloud
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Internet of Things – IoT – Explained
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What is a VPN?
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Why Your Servers Need Updates
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Why You Need Good Passwords
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Security Precautions as a Managed Service Provider
SecuritySecurity Precautions as a Managed Service ProviderPosted on 27/11/2019We talk about security an awful lot here at Beaty Consultancy. We’re…
Here’s How To Find Out If Your Data Is At Risk
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Cloud Consultancy in Cumbria
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Containers Don’t Need to be Scary
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Here’s Why You Need a Web Application Firewall
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Solving Problems Using The Cloud
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Protect your servers from Cryptomining
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Managing your cloud account logins
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Protecting your business from Ransomware
SecurityProtecting your business from RansomwarePosted on 01/10/2019First thing’s first – what is Ransomware? Ransomware is when your data is maliciously…
A day in the life of a cloud consultant
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Build it (in the cloud) and they will come
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Why use one cloud database when 7 will do?
This post was prompted by a recent AWS Podcast. If you’ve never listened to it, and you’re as geeky as…
Accellier
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The White Apple Company
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Glazed Expressions
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The Best Cloud Technologies for Backup
We all know we should be backing up way more than we do, and we know there are hundreds of…
Encryption in AWS; the Key, the Secret
So you read our recent post about encrypting your EBS storage. You have encrypted all your data in transit, and…
Azure Security Lab: Bug Bounties as a Service?
Beaty Consultancy is regarded within the industry as the guys with the tin hats. We are security nuts. With this…
Cut through the buzzwords to understand cloud
The technology space is chock-full of acronyms, strange units of measurement, and general techno clap-trap. And guess what, when we…
Data data everywhere, but how much to keep?
With almost unlimited amounts of storage available to anyone who wants it, how much should you use? How do you decide what’s worth keeping and where?
Encryption in AWS; let’s do some! Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Let’s look at encrypting EBS volumes in AWS!
AWS Anomaly Detection; Machine Learning for us Ops guys!
Machine learning powering ops monitoring I’m an old fashioned Ops guy at heart. I came up from a company who…
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all the toys in the toybox I have happily been running cloud consultancy business for the past couple of years…
Why AWS Consultancy?
A blog posting around the reasons for starting Beaty Consultancy, the friendly, affordable AWS consultancy services specialists.
Tag your assets, please
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Thanks for the downtime
It’s Saturday morning, early. I’m feeling super productive today, so I’ve already walked the dog, put last night’s dishes away,…