Tag: compliance

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Srikanth Venkat. About two years ago, Hortonworks donated the entire code base of about 440,000 lines from its XA Secure acquisition to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) in order to help jump start Apache Ranger as an Apache Incubator project. Hortonworks made this decision because our enterprise customers need an extensible and robust open source security framework that provides comprehensive authorization, audit, and encryption/ key management capabilities for their Hadoop big data infrastructures. Our customers understand products based on open source projects innovate faster, provide better roadmap clarity and release transparency, and reduce the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Have you ever felt the need to diagnose a critical problem and you needed access to packet data from a virtual machine? What if you could capture the packet data from a virtual machine in just a few clicks? How about the ability to log flow data for Network Security Groups, visualize and interpret the information with a tooling platform of your choice? With Azure Network Watcher, you can now access a plethora of logging and diagnostic capabilities that empower you with insights to understand your network performance and health. These capabilities are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matt Rathbun. Microsoft continues to lead the charge in realizing the power and promise of the cloud for Government customers. We are pleased to announce that Azure Government has been granted authorization for 12 additional customer-facing services to our FedRAMP High P-ATO. We now offer 32 Infrastructure and Platform services to our customers in our Azure Government compliance boundary, all of which have been authorized for use with up to High Impact level data. Our coverage of services, and the rate at which we are increasing our scope, highlight our commitment to being the most ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: SQL Server Engineering Team. We are getting ready to update the SQL Server Management Packs. Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! We appreciate the time and effort you spend on these previews which make the final product so much better. Please download at: Microsoft System Center Management Packs (Community Technical Preview 1) for SQL Server Included in the download are Microsoft System Center Management Packs for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2014/2016 (6.7.16.0). New SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012 MP Features and Fixes Implemented some enhancements to data source scripts Fixed ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Blog. Author: SQL Server Team. This post was authored by Mihaela Blendea, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server In keeping with our goal to enable the same High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions on all platforms supported by SQL Server, today Microsoft is excited to announce the preview of Always On Availability Groups for Linux in SQL Server v.Next Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1.3. This technology adds to the HADR options available for SQL Server on Linux, having previously enabled shared disk failover cluster instance capabilities. First released with SQL Server 2012 and enhanced in the 2014 and ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MariaDB. We are happy to announce that  MariaDB MaxScale 2.1.0 beta is released today. MariaDB MaxScale is the next generation database proxy for MariaDB.  Beta is an important time in our release and we encourage you to download this release today! MariaDB MaxScale 2.1 introduces the following key new capabilities: Dynamic Configuration Server, Monitor and Listeners: MaxScale 2.1 supports dynamic configuration of servers, monitors and listeners. Servers, monitors and listeners can be added, modified or removed during runtime. A set of new commands were added to maxadmin. Database firewall filter:  Rules can now be modified during runtime using the ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Regulated Industry SummitWe just released the schedule for the Regulated Industry Summit!The "Third Annual Regulated Industry Summit: Finance, Government, Healthcare, and PostgreSQL" is a community summit that brings together PostgreSQL contributors and enterprise developers to discuss challenges and solutions in utilizing PostgreSQL in regulated environments.Some of the topics of the Regulated Industry Summit are:Engineering cloud infrastructure for HIPAA-compliance Blockchain, Distributed Security and Regulated Industries Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) For PostgreSQL Security Enhancements in Postgres 10  Entrance to the Regulated Industry Summit is part of conference admission, but if you are just interested in attending the Summit, ... Read More

Feed: SAS BlogsRSS – SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Corporate compliance with an increasing number of industry regulations intended to protect personally identifiable information (PII) has made data privacy a frequent and public discussion. An inherent challenge to data privacy is, as Tamara Dull explained, “data, in and of itself, has no country, respects no law, and travels freely across borders. In the digital age, there are no geographical borders. And yet, most governments have attempted to put restrictions on how their citizens’ data is used. When we hear about foreign issues, we treat them like they’re strange and far away, ignoring the fact ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced a new finance cloud solution that helps companies, operating in multiple countries, meet complex taxation requirements and regulatory reporting standards imposed by each country. In our globalized economy, compliance with sophisticated tax and statutory laws around the world continues to be a constant challenge for finance professionals. Now these professionals can rely on Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud Service (TRCS), which streamlines tax reporting processes and manages complexity to ultimately enable compliance with new and existing tax regulations. Oracle TRCS delivers an out-of-the-box cloud solution to help organizations automate their tax provision and ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Thales, a provider of cyber security and data protection, is now supporting Google Cloud Platform’s Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) functionality and will provide key management services for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365.By offering support for Google Cloud platform, users can now generate, protect, and supply their encryption keys to the cloud using an on-premise, FIPS-certified nShield hardware security module (HSM) from Thales.The new CSEK support empowers enterprise customers who want to move workloads and data to the Google Cloud Platform, but need to retain control of their key material on-premise.“They now ... Read More