Hoop Access Gateway: Secure, Auditable, and Controlled Infrastructure Access

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Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic

It’s 9:00 AM on a Monday. The notification lands: “External Audit starts in 10 days.” 

For most engineering teams, this triggers a predictable chaos: 

  • Feature Freeze: All innovation stops. 
  • The Scavenger Hunt: Your best engineers stop coding and start digging through logs to find evidence that Incident #402 was patched correctly. 
  • The Screenshot Factory: Senior Architects spend hours taking screenshots of AWS configurations to prove encryption is “On.” 

It is expensive, demoralizing, and ironically – it doesn’t actually make you secure.  Continue reading “Compliance as a Code: The End of Audit Panic”

Complete Guide to Server Migration Using AWS Application Migration Service

Introduction

In today’s mix of local systems and cloud focus, moving tasks to AWS from internal servers or different clouds is key to staying up to date. But without proper tools, shifting them gets messy fast – so AWS MGN steps in to smooth things out. Continue reading “Complete Guide to Server Migration Using AWS Application Migration Service”

Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?

Do you remember the viral Twitter storm that hit a leading investment platform recently? 

A user claimed they invested in a Mutual Fund. Their bank account was debited. The app dashboard showed a green tick and even generated a Folio Number. To the user (and the app’s frontend), the transaction was a success. 

But days later, when they tried to redeem, the fund house said the money never arrived.  Continue reading “Fintech Shadow Failure | Your App is Up, But is Your Business?”

Terraform state locking with S3 and DynamoDB explained

Introduction 

When managing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, the state file is a key component, as it keeps track of what resources are associated with your configuration and how they are configured relative to one another. Teams will suffer from corrupted state and conflicting updates if they are left on their own to store and coordinate state.As teams compete for overall dominance, resources are neglected.  Continue reading “Terraform state locking with S3 and DynamoDB explained”