How Does the Cloud & Azure Transform Traditional Governance?
- Michael Spenny
- 19.01.2021
- Structure & Responsibilities
How Azure Transforms Traditional Governance The cloud offers some great benefits and advantages that are there for all to see. For organizations to truly reap the ...
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DevOps Enables Modern Governance
- Michael Spenny
- 19.01.2021
- Structure & Responsibilities
DevOps Enabled Governance The adoption of cloud computing has become a major disruptive force for organizations looking to innovate and grow. Embracing DevOps principles ...
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How Do I Structure Cloud Governance for Success?
- Michael Spenny
- 19.01.2021
- Structure & Responsibilities
How to Structure Your Cloud Governance Initiative for Success The cloud has become the foundation that enables organizations to transform, differentiate and gain ...
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How Do I Identify The Right Governance Structure For My Organization?
- Michael Spenny
- 19.01.2021
- Structure & Responsibilities
Identifying the Right Governance Structure for Your Organization. Every successful building project begins with a solid foundation. If you cut corners or skimp, you’ll ...
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Decentralized Governance Empowers Development Teams
- Phil DeVeau
- 19.01.2021
- Structure & Responsibilities
Top 5 Tips to Prevent Oversized or Unapproved Azure Resources
- Michael Spenny
- 18.01.2021
- Cost Control
Five Tips to preventing oversized or unapproved Azure resource creation Microsoft Azure provides a powerful set of services to help developers build and deploy their ...
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Key Metrics for Azure Cost Management
- Michael Spenny
- 18.01.2021
- Cost Control
Key Metrics for Azure Cost Management Azure cloud portal makes it easy to deploy and manage thousands of resources, but without proper governance and oversight in place ...
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Governance Best Practice: Remediation & Optimization of Azure ...
- Phil DeVeau
- 18.01.2021
- Cost Control
Repudiate or Remediate? Deployments in Azure have a few methodologies by which they can be governed based on sets of rules which taken together are called policies. When ...
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Learn How to Use Azure Tagging to Analyze Costs & Support Chargebacks
- Phil DeVeau
- 18.01.2021
- Cost Control
Gain a Better Understanding of Azure Spending Azure costs are fairly predictable in many circumstances. A virtual machine has a per hour of compute, a burstable SKU has ...
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Cloud Governance & Cost Management
- Phil DeVeau
- 18.01.2021
- Cost Control
Moving to the Cloud Was Going to Save Me Money?! Cloud costs are only somewhat predictable. You used the Azure cost calculator and the numbers just do not match up. At ...
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Leverage Data Aggregation to Ensure Azure Security Compliance
- Michael Spenny
- 15.01.2021
- Visibility
Governance is a Journey, Not a Destination From personal and financial information to data protection and cybersecurity, compliance teams have more to manage each year. ...
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Learn How to Use Azure Tagging to Manage Cloud Resources
- Michael Spenny
- 15.01.2021
- Visibility
Resource Lifecycle Management with Azure Tagging Once a year the Discovery Channel rolls out the red carpet for one of nature’s ultimate apex predators – the great white ...
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What is Cloud Sprawl & How Do I Avoid It?
- Phil DeVeau
- 15.01.2021
- Visibility
Governing Cloud Sprawl Junk drawers are great for kitchens. I get to throw in whatever tools I’ll eventually need into a single drawer and forget they exist until I ...
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What is Governance as Code?
- Phil DeVeau
- 15.01.2021
- Visibility
The perils of enforcing traditional IT governance in Azure You’re considering moving your software out to Azure, you’ve read a lot about the benefits of the cloud, ...
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Balancing Modern Governance Controls with Enablement
- Michael Spenny
- 13.01.2021
- Security
Balancing Controls with Enablement There’s no better event in sports than playoff hockey. It’s fast-paced, gritty and every player knows the stakes are high. The rules ...
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Identifying and Preventing Security Gaps
- Michael Spenny
- 13.01.2021
- Security
In today's fast paced business environment organizations need to be agile and innovative to stay ahead of their competition. This requires a careful balancing act ...
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DevSecOps: Where DevOps and Security Meet
- Michael Spenny
- 13.01.2021
- Security
DevSecOps – Where DevOps and Security Meet The speed of software delivery has accelerated dramatically over the last decade. Company’s that aren’t adapting and ...
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CIA Triad Security Model for Multi-dimensional Cloud Governance
- Michael Spenny
- 12.01.2021
- Security
The CIA Triad Security Model With the increasing sophistication of cyber threats facing organizations and businesses critical infrastructure and sensitive data, it’s now ...
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Azure Security Governance - Providing Access While Minimizing Risks
- Michael Spenny
- 12.01.2021
- Security
With the rising popularity of the cloud, and the increasing use of bring your own device (BYOD), Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile apps, the risk of sensitive data ...
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Azure Governance. Do or Do Not. There is No Try.
- Phil DeVeau
- 12.01.2021
- Implementation & Adoption
Governance as Code, this is the Way Azure Governance artifacts, such as json files with deployment scripts, are visible and human-readable artifacts that can be stored ...
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How to Use Policies as Governance Guard Rails
- Phil DeVeau
- 11.01.2021
- Implementation & Adoption
Why Do We Need Guard Rails? Most organizations have some form of workload in the cloud, whether it is testing the waters or a full end to end solution generating ...
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How to Empower Azure Self-Service for Self-Organization
- Phil DeVeau
- 08.01.2021
- Implementation & Adoption
Should I Hit it with a Hammer? When deploying to Azure whether through a CI/CD pipeline, Azure Portal, or any other supported method, there are gates we can add to help ...
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Remove Roadblocks and Speed Up Delivery with Reference Architecture
- Michael Spenny
- 08.01.2021
- Implementation & Adoption
Remove Roadblocks and Speed Up Delivery with Reference Architectures Growth in cloud adoption has grown steadily over the last several years and was recently given a ...
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All About Modern Governance
InCycle's Modern Governance blog is the result of almost 20 years of industry experience and is ideal reading for medium and large organizations that are trying to navigate cloud adoption and are struggling to design and implement modern governance for either a team, business unit or across the enterprise. The blog is comprehensive and addresses various stakeholders, including operations, security, application development, accounting, and audit. The goal of the blog is to showcase modern governance drivers, new challenges that arise, and to provide actionable guidance for practitioners to complete a modern governance transformation.
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