The three coworkers sit down at the bar and the bartender asks them what they’ll have. “We’ll take 3 beers,” says the developer, “but before you pour them we need you to settle an argument for us.” …

Paul McCarty — SecureStack Founder & CTO When we talk to potential customers we always ask questions about their existing cloud infrastructure. We ask which cloud providers they are using and why. When they are using more than one cloud provider we usually ask what are their reasons for having…

Paul McCarty — Lead Engineer at SecureStack — It’s our job to find good security practice and codify it. That’s what we do at SecureStack mostly: automate security into infrastructure. We do this a number of ways. For example, we build hardened operating systems that limit the attack surface of a server, and address a lot of the…

Paul McCarty — Founder & CTO of SecureStack Over the years many people have asked me what I do to secure my workspace and online presence. My process is a combination of using free and paid security tools in a layered approach to make my life safer. In today’s world…

SecureStack now offers Microsoft Windows Server images! Yes you heard that right, we’ve listened to our MSP and enterprise customers who wanted us to publish a SecureStack Windows Base image to round out our noticeably Linux heavy offerings. Now the same security and flexibility they’ve been enjoying with our Linux…

SecureStack is pleased to announce that we now support Redhat 7! Our SecureStack Base Redhat 7 product is a hardened version of Redhat 7.4 and comes with security tools built right in. Our Base products plug directly into your SecureStack SIPServer, allowing you to create hardened instances that are talking…

There’s a new meetup on the Gold Coast and SecureStack is super-mega-stoked to be a sponsor! Gold Coast DevOps group is having its inaugural meetup on March 22nd. We will be meeting at the Gold Coast Techspace in Mudgeeraba. Address is 57A Railway St. Here’s a map. Things kick off at 6:30pm and pizza will arrive at 7pm. Feel free to bring your friends. Talks will be on Terraform, Azure, CI/CD on the cheap and more!

https://securestack.co — Last Friday Australia’s new Mandatory Data Breach Notification law went into effect. Broadly speaking it requires businesses to advertise when they’ve had a data breach that involves personal identifying information. …

It’s 2017 and I’ve been in the IT industry over 21 years now. I started out in tech support at an ISP in Logan, Utah in 1996. I had been a unix hacker in college and knew enough to get hired as a junior admin. Most of our production services…