Security Logging and Monitoring: What Should You Actually Collect?

by Lee Broders | Oct 26, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Security logging can easily become a volume problem. Modern environments generate logs from identity systems, cloud platforms, networks, endpoints, applications, databases and security tools. Collecting everything is expensive and often unhelpful. Collecting too...

AWS VPC Endpoints: Design Private Service Access Without Blind Spots

by Lee Broders | Oct 20, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Moving workloads into private subnets does not automatically make their service dependencies private. Applications may still need to reach Amazon S3, DynamoDB, Secrets Manager, Systems Manager or other AWS APIs. The design question is not simply whether traffic can...

Technical Debt in Cloud Platforms: How It Builds Up and Why It Matters

by Lee Broders | Oct 19, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Cloud platforms can be created quickly, which is one of their greatest advantages. It is also one of the reasons technical debt can accumulate quickly. A temporary security rule, manually created resource or one-off deployment may solve an immediate problem. If it is...

Why Network Segmentation Still Matters in Modern Cloud Environments

by Lee Broders | Oct 12, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Cloud platforms have changed how networks are built, but they have not removed the need for network segmentation. In fact, cloud environments can make segmentation more important because infrastructure can be created quickly, services can span multiple accounts or...

Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI: What a Good Architecture Should Include

by Lee Broders | Oct 5, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Oracle E-Business Suite can run effectively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, but moving EBS into OCI is not simply a hosting exercise. A good architecture has to consider the application tier, database tier, network, integrations, security, resilience, recovery and...

Identity Is the New Perimeter: Designing IAM for Cloud Environments

by Lee Broders | Sep 28, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Traditional security models placed much of their trust in the network perimeter. Systems inside the corporate network were often treated as more trusted than those outside it. Cloud environments have changed that model. Users, administrators, applications, automation...