Tag: compliance

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Textract for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you don't have a BAA in place with AWS, or if you have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.  For information and best practices about configuring AWS HIPAA Eligible Services to store, process, and transmit PHI, see the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services Whitepaper. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor your AWS resources in your team chat rooms. AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. With AWS Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.  To receive AWS Config notifications in chat, create an AWS Chatbot configuration that maps an ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Leverage AI to Create Autonomous Policies that Adapts without Human Intervention Policies are the foundation for any successful organization.  Policies are the rules, or laws, of an organization.  Policies document the principles, best practices and compliance guidelines that aid decision-making in supporting the consistent and repeatable operations of the business. Heck, one could argue that an organization’s culture is better defined by its policies than it is by the character of its leadership team. Unfortunately, the management, creation and execution of policies haven’t changed much since the days of ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ronald van Loon. Organizations across the globe are buzzing about the cloud as the savior of their data management needs that provides them with the assistance they require for their business solutions. In this digital era of insights and analytics, the cloud has emerged as the best possible source for data management.  However, the suitability of the cloud for data management does not mean that you should jump toward it without doing some of your own homework. Organizations should know what they are stepping into, and all the options they have ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Almost all businesses rely on online services for critical business processes, if not directly for revenue.Downtime and performance disruptions represent lost productivity and sales, along with mitigation, reputation, and other costs.The real cost of tech glitches and outdated technology could mean millions.For this reason, a large and growing number of businesses make a modest investment in upgrading their infrastructure to an architecture based on server clusters.What is a Server Cluster?A server cluster is a unified group of servers, distributed and managed under a single IP address, which serves as a single entity to ensure ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Foundations (Business) was designed specifically to help new APN Partners build their business with AWS. The course introduces partners to concepts on how to uncover customer priorities, provides content specific to AWS differentiators, AWS security and compliance, pricing optimization including TCO, and the migration/cloud adoption process. Learn more about taking this course digitally or via classroom (requires APN Partner Central login).Our new course, AWS Solutions Training for Partners Foundations - Public Sector - Business teaches partners about AWS best practices specific to public-sector organizations. This course will cover customer priorities (including CxO-level priorities) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Avi Ben-Menahem. One of the best ways to speed up securing your cloud deployments is to focus on the most impactful security best practices. Best practices for securing any service begins with a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity risk and how to manage it. As an Azure customer, you can leverage this understanding by using security recommendations from Microsoft to help guide your risk-based decisions as they’re applied to specific security configuration settings in your environment. We partnered with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to create the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v1.  Since that ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Andrew Nhem; The Puppet team is excited to have people from around the world attend this year’s annual user conference. We’re proud of the work we’ve completed up to this point and energized to have a group of smart DevOps professionals check out new product improvements, watch our talks, and more.If you aren’t in Portland in experience all the goodness, no worries-- this recap post will curate all the highlights from this year’s user conference. Read about our product announcements This post isn’t the only place to stay informed about Puppet’s newest product updates and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Germans Frolovs. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. The regulation was created in order to protect the procedure of processing EU citizens’ personal information. All organizations must ensure that they are compliant with GDPR if they process European Union citizens’ personal data.The impact of GDPRFrom the first day that the regulation came into effect, it had a notable influence on multiple widely known companies. Mostly because many businesses simply were not prepared well enough for the legislation that covers so many elements within the business. The most ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Yasmin Rajabi; Hello from Puppetize PDX! I’m super excited to be at this year’s user conference and if you’re here in Portland, you can check out my talk on 10 October at 11:15 a.m. PT. I’ll be talking about Puppet Enterprise and all the goodness we’ve added thanks to Bolt! I’ll share some key features, best practices and customer stories from the field that highlight infrastructure automation and the use cases it enables. Additionally, I’ll share a sneak peek into Puppet Enterprise 2019.2, which has a planned GA date of 5 November.Last year, we introduced ... Read More