Tag: compliance

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Peter. Prof. Andrew McAfee (see my previous post) in a blog post in Nov 2006 asked his readers to consider this: Imagine two competitors, one of which has the guiding principle “keep security risks and discoverability to a minimum,” the other of which is guided by the rule “make it as easy as possible for people to collaborate and access each others’ expertise.”  Both put in technology infrastructures appropriate for their guiding principles.  Take all IT, legal, and leak-related costs into account.  Which of these two comes out ahead over time? My guess would be the latter. So, what is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Healthcare is drowning in data. Every patient brings a record that could span decades, with x-rays, MRIs, and other data that can affect every decision. Providers and payers bring their own collateral to the table. Skills, policies, and certifications are just the start. Complying with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) present additional burdens on any process. But there is a remedy: AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are powerful tools that can change the way healthcare organizations deal with the tsunami of healthcare data. Use cases ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Daniel Escapa. Last month at our Ignite conference in Orlando, we proudly announced the public preview of Azure Digital Twins, a new platform for comprehensive digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment. Today, we take the next step in the journey of simplifying IoT for our customers and are happy to announce that Azure Digital Twins is now officially live. Starting today, customers and partners can create an Azure account and begin using Azure Digital Twins. We encourage you to explore the content available in the Azure Digital ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. The AWS Competency Program welcomed 47 new AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners in September—spanning workload, solution, and industry designations. Please join us in welcoming our newest AWS Competency Partners!The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas. To receive the AWS Competency designation, APN Partners must undergo rigorous technical validation related to industry-specific technology, as well as an assessment of the security, performance, and reliability of their AWS solutions. This validation gives customers complete confidence in choosing APN ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; We are introducing some fantastic new capabilities in this release including event driven harvesting (“EBH”), three new compliance packs, and increased support for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.  Our latest release also includes more than 130 new filters, actions, and general enhancements. Event Driven Harvesting is really exciting as it improves detection and remediation times, as well as provides additional auditable data and context for lifecycle actions and changes to cloud resource and security confirmations. Twice a quarter DivvyCloud releases a new version of our software, and we are excited to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing - Years of work with our silicon vendors have allowed us to bring application isolation technology to hardware in our datacenters to support this new VM family. While these virtual machines may ‘look and feel’ like standard VM sizes from the control plane, they are backed by hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), specifically the latest generation of Intel Xeon Processors with Intel SGX technology. You can now build, deploy, and run applications that protect data confidentiality and integrity ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; Much like death and taxes, the inevitable has happened, another company has exposed its customer data.  Who’s the culprit this week? FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody. According to TechCrunch, last week, three FitMetrix servers were found by a security researcher to be leaking customer data. How long the servers remained exposed is unknown, but in September, the servers were indexed by Shodan, a search engine for open ports and databases.The servers included two of the same ElasticSearch instances and a storage server — all hosted on ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon S3 Select is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region, an isolated region designed to address specific regulatory and compliance requirements of US Government agencies, as well as contractors, educational institutions, and other US customers that run sensitive workloads in the cloud.  ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; Kubedex, a top destination to discover, compare and share Kubernetes Applications, recently shared an interesting, and self-described “brutal” article comparing cloud-hosted Kubernetes providers. A screenshot of the Google sheet comparing GKE, AKS, and EKS. True to his promise of a “brutal comparison,” the author was unsparing in his criticism of Microsoft AKS – “if the company I’m working for decided to migrate to Azure I’d find a new job.” Kubedex’s final recommendation?  “Go with Google GKE whenever possible. If you’re already on AWS then trial EKS but it doesn’t really give you that much currently ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jonathan Lacefield, Director of Customer Experience and Graph Solutions at DataStax. If you’re like many organizations, you are currently hybrid cloud and increasingly multi–cloud — meaning you have a combination of on-prem, hosted, and cloud, as well as multiple private and public clouds in play all at once. The advantages are clear: flexibility and choice. Hybrid cloud lets you choose when to keep more sensitive data or applications that are too costly to move right now on-prem, while having a choice of multiple clouds lets you flex and scale workloads among them ... Read More