Tag: Encryption

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; In the last blog post of this series, we discussed in detail how Master Key encryption works. In this post, based on what we already know about Master Key encryption, we look into how Master Key rotation works.The idea behind Master Key rotation is that we want to generate a new Master Key and use this new Master Key to re-encrypt the tablespace key (stored in tablespace’s header).Let’s remind ourselves what a Master Key encryption header looks like (it is located in tablespace’s header):From the previous blog post, we know that when a ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: lauren-moran; In the years leading to 2020, public cloud databases were commonly seen as “dev/test” environments for applications living on-premises. And while this use case is important and should continue to be implemented across IT functions, businesses must expand more workloads into cloud to realize monetary and operational benefits. However, a common question permeating every public cloud discussion has held some businesses back: “How secure is public cloud?”Enterprise IT organizations will have sensitive data and workloads that require an on-premises server or a private cloud operating behind their firewall ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . What’s Happening? Today, we are happy to announce the General Availability (GA) of Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for Power BI Premium. This feature gives enterprises the ability to configure the encryption key used to encrypt their data when it’s stored in the Microsoft cloud.With BYOK, each premium capacity can be set to encrypt data at rest using separate keys. As a result, you can exercise control over each capacity separately, revoke your organization’s keys and make the data in each separate capacity unreadable to the service within 1 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Saurabh Sensharma. An ever-increasing number of enterprises, even as they adopt a hybrid IT strategy, continue to retain mission-critical data on-premises and look towards the public cloud as an effective offsite for their backups. Azure Backup—Azure’s built-in data-protection solution, provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective mechanism to backup these data-assets over the network to Azure, while eliminating on-premises backup infrastructure. After the initial full backup of data, Azure Backup transfers only incremental changes in the data, thereby delivering continued savings on both network and storage. With the exponential growth in critical enterprise data, the initial ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With this launch, you can track changes to the configuration of Amazon SQS queues, such as queue policy, version, tags, message settings (such as message size, visibility time out), server side encryption and first-in first-out (FIFO) queue settings. You can also create change-triggered AWS Config rules to help you verify whether these changes comply with your internal governance policies, regulatory standards, and best practices on a continuous and real-time basis. Get started by enabling AWS Config in your account by using the AWS Config console or the AWS CLI. Select the resource types for which you want ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Photo by Michael Daniels on Unsplash Health and human services (HHS) agencies are in the midst of dramatic change, with ever-growing transaction volumes and increasing demand for new services and visibility into data. Looking for new ways to manage constituent demands, the agencies are turning to the cloud to run mission-critical applications that administer healthcare and social benefits programs for millions of beneficiaries, resulting improved system agility, security, and costs. Why HHS agencies are moving to cloud Transforming legacy systems with modern technologies enables advanced analytics, service ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Johan Kraft, PhD, CEO and Founder at PercepioWhen developing Internet of Things (IoT) device software, it’s hard to know if all bugs have been found. As in all software development, testing can show the presence of bugs but not prove their absence. It’s not uncommon that bugs elude detection and remain in the deployed device software. This may cause problems for end users related to data integrity, device availability, battery life, and the general user experience. The average cost of fixing bugs in an embedded device’s first year of service ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; Windscribe is a VPN that doesn’t seem to get enough attention. If you read our Windscribe review, you’ll see that it does quite a few things differently. From the build-a-plan option that offers VPNs for as little as two bucks a month to its unique R.O.B.E.R.T. malware and ad blocker, Windscribe has a lot to offer.  On the other hand, TunnelBear is a VPN that most people familiar with VPNs are aware of, but is TunnelBear worthy of its household name status? In our TunnelBear review, you’ll see us bemoaning the poor streaming performance, mediocre ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; NordVPN is a VPN that we give a lot of attention to, and it’s earned it. If you look at our NordVPN review, you’ll see we love it for a number of reasons, including its very competitive pricing, its user-friendly design and the ease with which it gets into streaming services.  Windscribe, on the other hand, has spent much less time in the spotlight of the VPN world. We noticed, though, that Windscribe had been making its way onto many of our top lists, including some of our top streaming and top free VPN roundups ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Kiril Nedev. Want to reduce the chance of customers' spam filters blocking your email messages?Try authenticating your domain. Domain authentication is so essential, we're requiring all Dynamics 365 Marketing implementations to authenticate their domains by April 2020.This post gives you some background on the reasons forthis requirement and provides instructionsforauthenticating your domain by the April 2020 deadline.The dangers of spam email messagesEvery day, people are bombarded with spam email messages. At best, spam annoys recipients with unwanted advertisements. But spam can also contain dangerous viruses or phishing attacks. Without proof that email messages from ... Read More