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About Turgut Aslan

Dr. Turgut Aslan is the Service Line Leader for Managed Security Services (Infrastructure Protection) and Risk & Issue Manager for the MAN account in IMT Germany. He joined IBM in 1999 and has more than 10 years of experience in the IT security areas of networking infrastructure, systems management, service management, tools, and software. He worked on the Global E2E Patch Management Project, and has written and globally rolled out the current Global Security Patch Management Process and Procedure. He also has developed learning modules in learning@IBM and provided recorded education sessions. In 2009, he supported the cloud solution developed at IBM Ehningen, Germany from the security and compliance perspective. Turgut joined the Global ITIL V3 championship program in 2010 and represented panIOT there.

Risks & Issues: Effective management for cloud commercial customers

Posted By Turgut Aslan 376 days ago

This blog entry is about managing risks and issues when providing cloud services to commercial customers. Managing service provider internal risks when using cloud technology is out of scope of this blog entry. Also any risk evaluation whether or not to migrate information assets or applications to cloud solutions is not regarded here.

Posted in: Security | Tagged in: cloud, cloud-computing, cloud-provider, cloud-services, commercial, compliance, ibm, ibmcloud, risk, risk-management, security

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Does my cloud have the flu? IT security check-up in the cloud

Posted By Turgut Aslan 427 days ago

Security health checking is an important IT security process. The question is how can the security requirements of customers be implemented effectively in the cloud environment? How can human interaction with the cloud avoided completely or to a large extend?

Posted in: Security | Tagged in: automation, cloud, cloud-computing, cloud-security, cloud-services, security

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Cloud physical security considerations

Posted By Turgut Aslan 455 days ago

Physical security is basic in many areas, and it’s no different in the IT security area. The physical locations where IBM cloud offerings reside must be compliant to IBM physical security policies. Cloud offerings distributed and mirrored over many physical sites can offer a higher degree of IT security to some of our commercial customers, for example in the banking and finance sector, without the need for huge financial investments.

Posted in: Security | Tagged in: cloud, cloud-computing, cloud-services, continuity, security, service, SLA

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Security patch management in the cloud

Posted By Turgut Aslan 471 days ago

This blog entry takes a step-by-step walkthrough approach to analyze process requirements against the cloud implementation. Identified potential gaps and issues are to be addressed in policy updates and in an effective risk management.

Posted in: Managing the Cloud, Security | Tagged in: cloud, cloud-computing, patch-management, security, software

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Author Archives: Turgut Aslan

About Turgut Aslan

Risks & Issues: Effective management for cloud commercial customers

Posted By Turgut Aslan 376 days ago

Does my cloud have the flu? IT security check-up in the cloud

Posted By Turgut Aslan 427 days ago

Cloud physical security considerations

Posted By Turgut Aslan 455 days ago

Security patch management in the cloud

Posted By Turgut Aslan 471 days ago

IT security processes overview and cloud

Posted By Turgut Aslan 537 days ago

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