Scott Sanchez

Director of Cloud Security Solutions at Unisys Corporation

Scott C Sanchez, CISSP is Director of the Cloud and Infrastructure Security business at Unisys Corporation and a recognized thought leader in Security and Cloud Computing.

Mr. Sanchez brings with him nearly 20 years of leadership experience managing global security and strategy programs at Goldman Sachs and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Scott has also had success as an entrepreneur; having founded and profitably sold both a security consulting firm and a medical software company.

Scott earned his Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation in 2000 and serves as a member of both the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the FBI InfraGard team.

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Article: Invest 15% of Cloud Savings in Security
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For each dollar you save by making a move to cloud computing, you should invest 15 cents to improve security and increase compliance efforts. The top areas of focus for most should be application security and real-time monitoring efforts. The security levels that (you thought) worked in your internal datacenters does not necessarily work in the cloud.


Article: The German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Cloud Computing in 2010
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Why are the issues for BDSG any different in a cloud computing environment? People see it as a risk, some of which I believe are real and others which I believe are just perception.


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Cloud ramblings from Scott Sanchez
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  • Study: Cloud knowledge directly tied to pork consumption
  • July 18 2011
    I’ve just completed the first phase of my wide reaching industry study about cloud knowledge, and the results are exactly as we expected.  The more pork you eat (especially when it is slow cooked in a smoker or bbq), the more cloudy you become. This chart says it all… ...
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  • The truth about developers: they don’t care about cloud
  • May 19 2011
    This week I spent a few days at RailsConf in Baltimore re-connecting with my developer roots, and it gave me a fresh perspective on what developers really think about cloud. Background Although I’ve spent much of my time focused on the application layer in the past decade, it has been at the architecture and integration [...] ...
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  • Concept: Using AWS IAM to protect your own API’s
  • May 04 2011
    Let’s say, hypothetically, that you are considering building a cloud-based service and had come to that fork in the road where you had to think about how to authenticate users to your API’s. As I was thinking about that problem, it struck me that potentially you could use the new(ish) identity and access management services [...] ...
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  • Building a smart engine for multi-cloud, highly available IaaS
  • April 22 2011
    I’ve been having a conversation on twitter with @reillyusa this morning about how a “cloud of clouds” could help prevent a single point of failure like we saw take down so many sites yesterday due to issues at AWS.  One availability zone or region goes down at AWS?  No problem, as service levels started to [...] ...
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  • All your eggs in one availability zone? Tsk, Tsk…
  • April 21 2011
    Diversify yourself across multiple availability zones, and even better, across multiple providers. You'll sleep better at night and will reduce the chance of showing up on the "is down" list. ...
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  • ‘Portability’ has jumped the cloud shark
  • April 19 2011
    For years already we’ve heard people moan about cloud lock in, and how things should be portable between clouds.  Today, most of the major cloud management platforms and stacks support multiple cloud technologies (some very good ones are even open source) and folks like CloudSwitch and BitNami can wrap your images so they can be [...] ...
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  • Business users should drive private cloud designs, not IT
  • April 17 2011
    Another observational blog post as I try to catch up from not blogging for 3 months.  This is what happens I spend a bunch of time on the street helping customers fulfill their cloudy dreams… One of the things I’ve been trying to evangelize is that for the first time since the dawn of IT, [...] ...
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  • Super high end hardware for commodity public IaaS? You’re doing it wrong.
  • April 16 2011
    If you're buying super high end hardware for your public IaaS cloud, you're doing it wrong. ...
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  • Improving Cloud Adoption Rates through User Experience
  • January 17 2011
    Introducing the cloud “point of purchase” - the magical spot where the consumer and provider meet. ...
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