James Ciesielski

1 day ago | ecommercefastlane.com | James Ciesielski |Steve Hutt

DevOps teams automate deployments and monitor applications. They scale infrastructure and manage CI/CD pipelines. But walking through AWS re:Inforce 2025 in Philadelphia, a pattern emerged across sessions like “Code to cloud risk management” and “Beyond shift-left: Embedding controls in infrastructure pipelines.”Teams focus on application resilience. They ignore SaaS data resilience. This blind spot creates real business risk.

Nov 26, 2024 | securityboulevard.com | Richi Jennings |Michael Vizard |Charlene O’Hanlon |James Ciesielski

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Jul 30, 2024 | ecommercefastlane.com | Steve Hutt |David Lim |James Ciesielski

I love a good board game—I play them often with my friends and kids. An added bonus is that they help you work on a lot of soft skills like adaptability, teamwork and communication. Here’s something I recently realized: playing board games actually has a lot in common with how a business should approach disaster recovery planning.

Jul 23, 2024 | ecommercefastlane.com | Steve Hutt |David Lim |James Ciesielski

When your organization connects one SaaS app to another (maybe it’s a handy backup!), a person usually does it. That person automatically becomes the authorization bridge between these two applications. Once that’s done, everything should run smoothly. But what happens when that person leaves your organization for a new opportunity? Proper security and IT practices dictate that their email account must be deactivated. In doing so, that link will be broken, instantly disabling the integration.