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Encryption – The encoding of data so that it cannot be understood by a human reader. This usually requires the use of an encryption key. A common encryption algorithm is called AES, which uses encryption keys of 128, 192 or 256 bits. See Wikipedia
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Best VPN for Android TV Box in 2021: Unchain Your Android TV
Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The Android TV box has access to a wider variety of entertainment services than a regular TV. However, since it uses the internet to unlock these services, it’s vulnerable to the same cyber threats as your other Android devices. Because of this, you have to install the best VPN for Android TV box to enjoy your favorite shows securely. Finding a VPN for your Android TV box can be a challenge. You have to consider many factors, such as features, usability and price to find a virtual private network that best meets your needs. We ... Read More
Best Cloud Storage for Teams 2021: Group Work the Easy Way
Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud storage has been at the core of business for years, serving as a way for smaller teams to share and collaborate in the office and around the globe. The best cloud storage for teams makes sharing and collaborating easy, and in this guide, we’re going to count down our top five picks. Key Takeaways: Each of the services below are built to make working with your team easy, from Huddle’s real-time document management tools to pCloud’s dense user control. Out of all our picks, though, Egnyte Connect stands out. Although other services may beat ... Read More
Encryption-in-transit for public sector workloads with AWS Nitro Enclaves and AWS Certificate Manager

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More
Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to implement envelope encryption of Kubernetes secrets using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for existing EKS clusters. Envelope encryption adds an addition, customer-managed layer of encryption for application secrets or user data that is stored within a Kubernetes cluster. Implementing envelope encryption is considered a security best practice for applications that store sensitive data and is part of a defense in depth security strategy. Previously, Amazon EKS supported enabling envelope encryption using KMS keys only during cluster creation. Now, you can enable envelope encryption for Amazon EKS clusters ... Read More
Operating Lambda: Building a solid security foundation – Part 2

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This two-part series discusses core security concepts for Lambda-based applications. Part 1 explains the Lambda execution environment and how to apply the principles of least privilege to your workload. This post covers securing workloads with public endpoints, encrypting data, and using AWS CloudTrail for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Securing workloads with public endpoints For workloads that are accessible publicly, AWS provides a number of features and services that can help mitigate ... Read More
Best VPN for PS4 in 2021: Stealth Gaming
Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Anna Millere; Setting up a VPN for your PlayStation is a smart move, as it offers many benefits. For example, using a PS4 VPN can get you better game deals. Most VPN providers, like NordVPN, come with a large network of servers around the world, which allows you to change between different countries and find cheaper game deals in the PlayStation Store. There is also security, too. Oftentimes, players are open to hostile DDoS attacks and swatting, leading to doxing or worse. Using a premium VPN service, like ExpressVPN (which is also the top choice on our ... Read More
(Part 2 of 4) How to Modernize Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform – by Alaa Mahjoub, M.Sc. Eng.
Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Alaa Mahjoub. In many cases, for an enterprise to build its digital business technology platform, it must modernize its traditional data and analytics architecture. A modern data and analytics platform should be built on a services-based principles and architecture. Introduction part 1, provided a conceptual-level reference architecture of a traditional Data and Analytics (D&A) platform. This part, provide a conceptual-level reference architecture of a modern D&A platform. Parts 3 and 4, will explain how these two reference architectures can be used to modernize an existing traditional D&A platform. This will be ... Read More
Best VPN for Nvidia Shield in 2021: A Shield for Your Shield
Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Anna Millere; Installing a virtual private network on your Nvidia Shield or Shield TV comes with a ton of benefits, such as the ability to access geo-restricted content. Furthermore, opting for a VPN service guarantees more security while you’re streaming, gaming or even torrenting with Kodi on your Nvidia Shield TV. That’s why we put together this list of the best VPN for Nvidia Shield picks. Key Takeaways: Using a premium VPN app on Nvidia Shield will allow you to access more blocked content, such as Netflix U.S. and BBC iPlayer, as well as put a stop ... Read More
Make way for the High Performance Parallel Dump & Load Utilities + How to use them

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Andrew Grimo; MySQL-Shell has had a set of “Util” object functions for almost a year as of this post. It is this added functionality that negates any reason someone would still need to use the old mysqldump client. It (mysqldump) helped the MySQL Community for a long, long time. It also introduced a large amount of garbage and messiness in with those bloated data files, as it really belongs to an older era. We can now move on ahead without it. This process of “moving ahead” is what I will demonstrate in this blog post. Note: ... Read More
Improving virtual education, economic research, and environmental data: The latest from AWS CICs

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) aim to empower public sector organizations to quickly create and test new ideas using Amazon’s innovation methodology. In the second half of 2020, all those who participate in the CIC program, from students and researchers to the technology teams from AWS, worked on wide-ranging societal problems. Their focus was on improving education with virtual computer labs, working on climate change initiatives, improving economic and healthcare research, and supporting at-risk high school students. What were they up to at the end of 2020? Connecting ... Read More
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