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Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Hauss. Financial Services organizations regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and more are required to retain business-related communications in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) or immutable state that ensures they are non-erasable and non-modifiable for a specific retention interval. The immutable storage requirement is not limited to financial organizations but also applies to industries such as healthcare, insurance, media, public safety, and legal services. Today, we are excited to reveal the general availability ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Gary Stevens; The deep web and dark web are terms that have enjoyed plenty of headlines in recent years. You could conclude — wrongly, it turns out — that nothing exists in that seedy cyber alley except for deals that involve contract killing, illegal drugs, human trafficking, weapons, pornography and other not-so-nice products and services. The Silk Road, a website synonymous with shady dealings, was shut down twice by the FBI and its founder, the Dread Pirate Roberts, also known as Ross Ulbricht, imprisoned for life. The deep web and dark web aren’t the same thing, though ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS services are used throughout the United States by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies. Customers can create customized cloud-based environments for CJI workloads with training and helpful resources provided by AWS to meet CJIS requirements. Backed by the secure and tested AWS network, customers can feel comfortable putting sensitive workloads in AWS.Many customers that manage sensitive data – including law enforcement agencies, child welfare agencies, motor vehicle departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations – are comfortable deploying workloads on AWS GovCloud (US) as the region is designed to meet ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. We just announced the new AWS Industrial Software Competency Program for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners.Launch Partners in this program have built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations. These solutions follow AWS best practices for building the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partner for their AWS projects and workloads. To give you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Law enforcement applications are increasingly becoming integrated with the cloud. Whether through computer-aided dispatch, records management, or data analytics, the cloud is enabling officers to accomplish new tasks, including:Uploading, storing, and securing massive quantities of data directly from mobile devices; Accessing records from multiple databases at once; Deploying and tracking emergency response units; Enhancing situational awareness; Dictating and submitting incident reports from the field; and Automating and accelerating transcription and data collection services. To understand the value of cloud computing for police investigations, let’s first compare the traditional way police departments ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This week we have recommendations with Personalized PageRank, Solving the bucket-filling problem, Deep Text Understanding, a new GraphQL book, Thinking in Graph for security, and more! This week’s featured community member is Scott Sosna, Software Senior Principal Engineer at Dell EMC. Scott Sosna – This Week’s Featured Community Member Scott explores how to use Neo4j for traffic data, the London tube network, US government public disclosure filings, and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. President Trump is once again causing distress by downplaying the number of deaths caused by Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico last year. Official estimates initially put the death toll at 15 before raising it to 64 months later, but it was clear even then that those numbers were absurdly low. The government of Puerto Rico commissioned an official report from the Millikan Institute of Public Health at George Washington University (GWU) to obtain a more accurate estimate, and with its interim publication official toll stands at 2,975.  Why were the initial estimates so low? I read ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Security comes first when choosing an antivirus. While usability, price and the number of devices supported are important, it’s all in vain if the protection falls flat. Out of the software we tested in our antivirus reviews, these five reign supreme in protection. In this guide to the most secure antivirus, we’re going to pit the best antivirus software against each other to give you the best options on the market. We’ll share how we made our selections, then compare lab results to our hands-on testing to show you how well a particular antivirus performed ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We just announced the AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency Program for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners.Launch Partners in this program have built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enable customers’ cloud strategies by delivering operations and governance best practices. AWS CMT Competency Partners help customers confidently manage and optimize AWS environments using a “guardrails” approach while continuously monitoring for opportunities to improve efficiency. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partner for their AWS projects and workloads. To give you an idea how AWS CMT Competency Partners are helping customers realize ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; If you live in North America, chances are you’d like to store your files somewhere U.S. agencies can’t get to them. Canada is a prime candidate for that, as it doesn’t have laws, such as the USA Patriot Act, CLOUD or PRISM, that allow the government to look at your data. In this article, we’ve selected the best cloud storage for Canada, with Sync.com taking the top spot. Canada’s government is scrambling to update its laws to match EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and keep the right to free data transfer. That’s great news for ... Read More