Tag: identity

Feed: Recent Announcements. When the source identity attribute is set, you can easily connect an event logged by AWS CloudTrail with the identity of the user or application who performed that action. You no longer need to assemble multiple CloudTrail log entries, potentially across multiple accounts, in order to identify the specific user or application who performed an action while assuming a role. This is true even for role chaining, where a user uses one IAM role to assume another IAM role. This gives IAM administrators and security professionals more confidence in the audit trail for most actions ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Over twenty-five years ago, I was the victim of identity fraud. Someone with the same full name who lived in my town had billed tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses to me. The fraudster pulled this off partly because of what is now considered an ancient trove of publicly available data. My full name, postal address and home telephone number were listed in the phone book – those printed, yellow-covered books that were delivered to your doorstep. My identity thief was able to commit in-person fraud using his real photo ID (most ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ryan Jason. It’s no riddle that identity fraud has become one of the greatest challenges for online corporations. As stated by the report on identity scams, there were 15.4 million innocents of crimes associated with identity scams and theft in 2020 only. Therefore, as online payments rise due to the COVID-19, the number of malicious activities and data breaches and the occurrences of cyber attacks are also rising. Therefore, online identification document scanning solutions are becoming rising prevalent and common. Included with automated advancements, document attestation makes sure user verification adopts ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; Using a VPN has become easier and easier over the years. A VPN with a good user interface — like the one we looked at in our ExpressVPN review — can make it as easy as pressing a single button to get securely connected to the internet through your VPN. However, it’s possible to make it even easier by skipping the VPN client entirely and setting up your VPN right on your router. Key Takeaways: Using a VPN on your router is a great way to protect all of your devices at once.While not all ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; For a long time, LastPass was the undisputed king of free password managers, but recent updates to its free version has changed that. In this article, we’ll get into what these changes are and how they affect the users, as well as provide you with a list of password managers if you’re looking for a LastPass alternative. Key Takeaways: A recent update to LastPass in 2021 means that free users can only use their account on either mobile devices or computers, but not both.Bitwarden and KeePass are the top choices for free password management now ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Bala Mugunthan. By Bala Mugunthan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy James Wenzel, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, Networking at AWSBy Laura Neacsu, SD-Branch Solution Architect at ArubaBy Kelly Fleshner, Solution Technical Marketing at Aruba Like previous technology transitions, shifting to the “era of data” at the intelligent edge changes the role of the network infrastructure and introduces new challenges. Corporate networks have always played a pivotal role in moving data, low latency applications, and connecting people to their applications and services. However, with the resiliency and global scale of infrastructure as a service ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Diego García. By Diego García, Partner Solutions Architect Manager at AWS By Emanuele Cuoccio, Solutions Architect at AWSBy Guillermo Torres, Product Developer Lead at Linke A top priority for the more than 5,000 active customers running SAP workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to regularly back up their databases to recover them in case of failure. Regarding where to ship the backups, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a cost-effective, highly durable, and reliable storage service. This makes it the preferred storage service for storing database backups, both in general and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Data Geek. Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Introduction It is the 21st century and we are literally obsessed with data. Data seems to be everywhere and companies currently hold huge amounts of it regardless of the industry they belong to.  This brings us to the problem of storing data in a way that it can be accessed, processed, and used efficiently. Before cloud solutions, companies would have to spend a lot of money on physical storage and infrastructure to support all the data the company had.  Nowadays, the more popular choice ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Eric Johnson. This post is written by Bryant Bost, Cloud Application Architect. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach to access control for Amazon API Gateway. Properties of your application such as API type, identity provider, client access patterns, privacy requirements, and others influence the design of your access control solution. Understanding the types of access control available in API Gateway can help you design a solution that is right for your application. In this post, we review the different access control methods available in API Gateway, in addition to considerations for evaluating whether a method ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon ElastiCache now supports tag-based access control and adding tags to additional cluster resources. By using tags for access control, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups, and roles get access only to the Amazon ElastiCache resources with matching tags. This provides you the capability to scale by reducing the number of distinct permissions you need to create and manage in your AWS account. You can define AWS IAM policies that grant or deny access to a resource based on its tags. Furthermore, you can use specific condition context keys to customize your AWS IAM ... Read More