Author: Maurice Manning

Cybersecurity and Protection for Cloud Organizations_ Why Now, What Happened, and How Wursta and Google Secure Your Future

Why Now: A Critical Moment for Cybersecurity in the Cloud Era Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, transforming how businesses operate and innovate. Yet with this progress comes an urgent shift in the threat landscape. The emergence of AI-orchestrated cyberattacks—such as the recent large-scale breach leveraging Anthropic’s Claude AI coding tool—represents a new paradigm in adversary… Read more »

Recent disruptions at AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare have clearly demonstrated that outages can cascade through the digital ecosystem, leaving even the best-prepared organizations scrambling to maintain business continuity. Against this backdrop, networking giants like Cisco and other vendors face an escalating challenge: predicting and hardening systems against outages, security breaches, and sophisticated attacks that… Read more »

TLDR; On October 29, 2025, Microsoft Azure suffered a major outage due to a configuration error in their Azure Front Door global routing service, knocking out authentication and access for millions of users worldwide for over 5 hours. This outage exposed how critical authentication infrastructure is and why relying solely on single-cloud authentication can be… Read more »

TLDR The “Building on Solid Foundations” blog draft reflects on yesterday’s massive AWS outage caused by a DNS resolution failure in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region, which cascaded through numerous services globally. From my perspective as part of our vCISO team, this outage starkly illustrates that relying on a single cloud provider or DNS system—without resilient, multi-provider… Read more »