Eric Thomas

About Eric

Eric Thomas serves as Director of Cloud Products for IT analytics company ExtraHop. Prior to taking this role, Eric led the ExtraHop professional services team, and draws on over 20 years of experience in IT operations.

Before joining ExtraHop, Eric performed a variety of operational roles, most recently as director of advanced engineering for Thomson Reuters, where he led a team of performance and availability specialists, supporting over 200 applications representing $2B in annual revenue. His prior experience includes enterprise IT management, SaaS production operations, and next-generation technology advocacy.

Posts by Eric Thomas

• Here's the Deal With AWS Outposts

  • December 18, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud, Industry Trends, Security

  At re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services' annual user conference, AWS announced AWS Outposts—both its answer to Microsoft Azure Stack and its first entry into the enterprise data center. This post will tell you why Outposts is such a major step for AWS and its ability to win over enterprise customers.

• The Trouble with Native Cloud Security

  • March 20, 2019
  • Posted in Cloud, Industry Trends, Security, Tips and Hacks

  Public cloud vendors have no choice but to take security seriously - but even the Big Two (AWS and Azure) are still cloud vendors, not security vendors. Here's a breakdown of what cloud-native security really means for the consumer according to the Shared Responsibility Model.

• Securing the Cloud: Top Threats

  • October 24, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud, Industry Trends, Security

  What are the biggest dangers you'll face when you move to the public cloud? Learn the top cloud threats according to Cybersecurity Insiders' 2018 survey.

• Securing the Cloud: The Team of No

  • October 18, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud, Industry Trends, Security

  So you want to migrate to the public cloud, but SecOps is saying no. The first step towards solving the security challenges unique to the public cloud is understanding why exactly security teams often pump the brakes on cloud migration.

• Azure Secures the Enterprise with Virtual Network TAP

  • September 25, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud, Launches, Reveal(x), Security

  Microsoft's Virtual Network TAP is a gamechanger for enterprise cloud customers, especially with the release of ExtraHop Reveal(x) for Azure. Learn why the vTAP secures Azure the enterprise, and why network traffic analysis with Reveal(x) is a critical source of security intelligence in the cloud.

• Getting Safe, Smart & Secure on S3

  • July 12, 2018
  • Posted in Security

  Ever wonder what unicorns and Amazon S3 buckets have in common? ExtraHop's Cloud Security expert, Eric Thomas, explains in this opinion piece in Dark Reading.

• AWS S3 Security & Breaches: Lessons in the New Shadow IT

  • June 19, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud, Security

  Almost 70% of exposed records in 2017 were due to misconfigurations in services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Here's how to be smart and secure on S3.

• Clouded Judgment Part 3: Public Cloud Adoption

  • May 1, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud

  This week on Clouded Judgment, Eric talks about the state of public cloud adoption in the enterprise, how organizations can best take advantage of next-generation infrastructure, and the capabilities and shortcomings of cloud provider tooling.

• Clouded Judgment Part 2: Judgment Day

  • April 13, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud

  This week on Clouded Judgment, learn about the economics of cloud migration with resident expert Eric Thomas.

• Clouded Judgment: Part 1

  • April 6, 2018
  • Posted in Cloud

  You've got questions, we've got answers: learn about cloud security, platforms, migrations, and more with resident expert Eric Thomas.

• The 5 Stages of Security Grief

  • June 23, 2017
  • Posted in Company, Security, Tech

  Heard of the 5 stages of grief? Learn how security pros cope with breaches.

• TCP Analysis: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 2

  • April 22, 2016
  • Posted in Analysis, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches, TCP Tuning, Tech

  A diagram of the OSI Model. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we imagined the perfect framework for no-impact monitoring of an application stack and found it was right in front of us all along in…