The recent breaches and outages experienced by Snowflake and CrowdStrike have spotlighted the vulnerabilities that exist within large enterprises. Security, compliance, audit, resilience, and disaster readiness require constant attention to maintain the integrity and trust of enterprise operations. These factors influence customer centricity, vendor relationships, and the reputation of IT leaders within organizations.
What Went Wrong
The Snowflake breach resulted in unauthorized access to multiple accounts hosted on their platform including several well-known large brands. In contrast, the CrowdStrike outage, which impacted organizations globally, stemmed from a software update deployed directly to production without undergoing testing in a non-production environment first.
Both incidents underscore the importance of robust operational measures to prevent or quickly identify and react to large-scale damage.
Enhanced Cloud Resiliency
Why It Matters: Enterprises depend on their workloads, applications, and databases to be consistently available and resilient. Ensuring High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) across multiple availability zones (AZ) or regions is crucial.
Best Practices: From a cost perspective, even in constrained environments, enterprises should implement at least a low-cost storage replica in a different AZ or region. This can be programmatically commissioned at will to contain the outage.
How Tessell Enhances Cloud Resiliency
Tessell addresses these concerns by offering enhanced cloud resiliency with both Active-Compute resiliency and Active-Storage resiliency for any database on any cloud. This guarantees the minimal level of resiliency for Production and Non-Production workloads.
Data Redaction
Why it Matters: Sensitive data exposure can lead to severe breaches and regulatory fines. Data redaction is essential in protecting sensitive information when cloning or refreshing data in downstream environments like development, testing, staging, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
Tessell’s Approach to Data Redaction
Tessell offers built-in capabilities to redact sensitive data from production environments. This ensures that sensitive data is always protected and reduces the risk of exposure and breaches.
Up-to-Date Patches and Versions
Why It Matters: Keeping ecosystems at current patched levels is vital for security. However, many organizations find this challenging with traditional FTE-based managed services models. The CrowdStrike outage could have been averted if the patches had been properly tested on non-production environments before being released to production.
Tessell’s Automated Patching Solution
Tessell’s Automated Patching Solution is designed to help organizations keep their ecosystems secure by automating upgrades and patching of operating systems and databases.This solution allows customers to schedule and roll out upgrades and patches to non-production environments, such as Dev/QA databases, for testing before pushing them to production. By automating these complex tasks, Tessell ensures that patches are applied efficiently and reduces the risk of security vulnerabilities. This approach helps organizations stay up-to-date with patches and versions, which is vital for maintaining security in today’s threat landscape.
Security for Data at Rest and in Transit
Why It Matters: Security for data at rest and in transit is paramount. Adopting SaaS platforms with proprietary key management mechanisms can increase the attack surface.
Tessell’s Security Measures
Tessell allows enterprises to use their own network and security policies while managing their own encryption keys. This ensures customer control and security throughout the service.
Self-Managed IT Ecosystems
Why It Matters: Many enterprises hesitate to use legacy DBaaS environments due to the lack of control and flexibility. They need a solution that offers both control and cost-efficiencies.
Tessell’s Revolutionary Approach
Tessell’s architecture provides customers with control over their self-managed IT ecosystems while benefiting from the flexibility and cost-efficiencies of a secure enterprise-wide Platform-as-a-Serivce (PaaS) for their operational datastores. Tessell also supports utility consumption with a pay-as-you-go model and offers volume and time commitment discounts for customers with large database footprints.
Why Choose Tessell
Proven Success: Tessell’s innovative approach to database management is rapidly gaining popularity and has been recognized in Redpoint Ventures’ InfraRed 100 list as one of the most innovative private companies in cloud data infrastructure.
Customer Testimonials
- "Firm adopts digital-first with Tessell’s Oracle PaaS on Azure, yielding 40% faster databases, 20% better APIs, and 50% less CPU usage sans code changes."
- "Tessell enables Forbes’ mission, reducing database costs >25%, improving customer database-backed page load times 42%-50%, and providing internal on-demand development environments in less than 7 minutes."
- "Tessell's DBaaS boosts operations, data security allowing focus on core goals. Aurionpro integrates Tessell for all solutions."
- "Lack of resiliency and recoverability was formerly our biggest issue. With Tessell, it is no longer a concern."
- "Would like to thank the team's excellent support in migrating the databases from AWS RDS as well as Azure platforms to much more cost-effective and security-compliant Tessell DBaaS."
Conclusion
The recent incidents with Snowflake and CrowdStrike are stark reminders of the importance of robust security measures, data protection, and operational resilience. Tessell stands out by providing all these features and more, ensuring that enterprises can operate securely and efficiently in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
For more information and to see how Tessell can transform your enterprise’s data management, reach out to our sales team at sales@tessell.com.
